Point of View January 20, 2025 – Hour 2 : The Inauguration and the Trump Administration

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View, Penna Dexter. Welcome back to Point of View, I am Penna Dexter. In studio co-hosting with me today is Liberty McGarter. And of course we have been watching the festivities of the inauguration in Washington, D.C.

[00:00:33] We have a new president, the 47th President of the United States, it's Donald Trump. And we are going to talk with a historian now about that. His name is William Federer and he's a best-selling author and a nationally known speaker, a very good speaker. He's a Christian and a conservative, he travels all over and he's written more than 20 books. I have many of those books in my home, Bill. He's a friend of mine, I've known him for a long time.

[00:01:02] He also ran for Congress and he really kind of equates or I guess explains the Christian foundations of our nation. He's got a book out, Prayers and Presidents, Inspiring Faith from Leaders of the Past. And Bill, thank you so much for joining us. Penna, great to be with you. Well, it's good to have you.

[00:01:25] And Liberty and I decided that we want for the first question to ask you if, you know, you can tell us some of the history in our country about presidents who have had non-consecutive terms as Donald Trump has this time. Well, there's only one. It's Grover Cleveland. He was the 22nd and the 24th president.

[00:01:51] And but now we have Donald Trump, 45th and 47th president. You know, the transfer of power is so unique in world history. One of the books I put together, I go through all world history and the most common form of government is a king. Nimrod, Pharaoh, Caesar, Kaiser, Sultan, Zahra, and kings are just glorified gang leaders. And as the centuries go on, the kingdoms get bigger because with the latest military advancements, the kings can kill more people until finally the king of England.

[00:02:21] He was a globalist. The sun never set on the British Empire. He was a one world government guy. America's founders didn't like that. They broke away and flipped it and made the people the king. And the word citizen is Greek. It means co-ruler, co-sovereign, co-king. Our founders, you look at it, came from the New England pastors, their congregational churches. And they got their idea from the Bible, what part of the Bible, that first 400 years out of Egypt before Israel had a king. It's called the Hebrew Republic.

[00:02:49] And it was unique in world history where you had millions of people and no king. It worked because everybody was taught the law and personally accountable to God to follow it. It worked until the priest went woke and said there's no sin anymore and it turns into chaos. And they all go to Samuel the prophet and they say, we want to be like the other countries. We want a king. And why is this story important? The kings of Europe looked to the Bible for their authority, but they looked to the king Saul and on. The founders of America looked to the pre-King Saul part of the Bible.

[00:03:17] The Hebrew Republic, millions of people, everybody taught the law, accountable to God to follow it. And so the word federal is Latin for covenant. We have a covenant form of government that goes back to this. So our idea is that we don't want a king. We want the people to express their will. And but you have to have a system set up for the people's will to be put in place. I do think we do have a system for that. That's what that's how our system should work.

[00:03:46] But it doesn't. It seems that certain people amass more power in the central government, despite the Constitution that we have. You're hitting it right on the head. The tendency for power to to increase itself is human. And you get a good person in office. I mean, you look back ancient Egypt. Joseph was a really good guy. And he helps concentrate power into the hands of the Pharaoh.

[00:04:14] And what did that particular favor do with the power? He fed the children of Israel, gave him the best land of Goshen, gave jobs, taking care of his cattle. But then there was a new king that didn't know Joseph and used all the concentrated power as lawfare to go after the people. And so the Latin South America, you know, these different countries, some, you know, I was reading about Erdogan. He said democracy is like a train to get off it once you reach your destination.

[00:04:42] Like you climb up into the tree house and then you pull the rope up behind you. So people that use the system to get in power and then they revert back to a dictatorship. What I believe God has given us with Trump is this effort to dismantle this concentrated power, this monster, and give it back to the people and let the freedom of speech happen.

[00:05:07] And let there be where kids don't get indoctrinated to school without the parents knowing about it. And letting you post stuff without worrying about being censored. And so we have this window. And I think that we need to rejoice and thank God and then realize that we can't go back to business as usual, because in two years we'll have another election.

[00:05:30] And if we don't secure the elections, if they win just a couple more congressional seats and they take over Congress, they can start impeachment trials again. I mean, so. Yeah, we can't get back to that type of thing. Christians need to rush in. And that's why I wrote a book called Silence Equals Consent, The Sin of Omission. And churches think they're spiritual by not getting involved. Well, if you're not getting involved, your silence is giving consent to the evil. The same way that if you're silent at a wedding ceremony, you're given your consent.

[00:05:59] So we need to take this opportunity and rush in and say, look, we need to get involved. So on election day, my daily Bible reading was Jeremiah 37, Jerusalem surrounded by the Babylonians. The army of Egypt comes up and Babylon retreats. And the people in Jerusalem go back to business as usual. And Jeremiah, the prophet said, if you don't seriously repent, Babylon's coming back with a vengeance. And so this idea is that we dodged a bullet.

[00:06:27] And if people say, OK, we're back to business as usual. No, we need to really repent and get serious, because if the other side ever gets back on top, I think they'll have learned their lesson. They won't let us come up for error. Well, I really appreciated something you said earlier, learning about the root of the word citizen.

[00:06:46] And but something that I we know from our history is that our founders acknowledged that if we were going to be co rulers or be the king, so to speak, and give that power to the people that we had to have morals ourselves. And so as somebody who studied American history and the different eras from a faith perspective, I'd love to hear your thoughts on where we are as a nation now culturally, because, you know, we are less religious than we have been.

[00:07:16] What does that look like for our future? Yeah, Liberty, great question. And our founders clearly understood that for us to have fewer external restraints, we needed to have more internal restraints, sort of like a teeter totter. And the parents give the teenager the car keys and said, you're a good kid. You have internal morals. You can come home whenever you think it's right.

[00:07:39] But if you don't follow those internal morals and given your passions and lust, drink and drive, you're going to be pulled over by the police and put in jail. So teenager, you're going to be controlled. It's either voluntarily from the inside or forcibly from the outside. Same way with the nation. Let me jump in, Bill, because I want to I want you to develop this. But we have a we have a break. So Bill Federer is our guest. Liberty MacArthur is in studio with us.

[00:08:07] And, you know, we do have to be a nation of predominantly moral people. We aren't a nation. I don't call us a Christian nation. And maybe Bill can comment on that after the break, too. I don't. I used to love to be able to say that, but I don't think that is anymore. So we'll comment on that, too. But ladies and gentlemen, stick with us. I do want to mention a couple of articles on the Web site before the break. One is has to do with the pro life issue.

[00:08:37] It's our first article. And, you know, we really need to do something about the life issue. That article will give us some ideas to stick with us. We'll be back in just a moment. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. Today, the U.S. is getting a new president. Soon, Canada will be getting a new prime minister.

[00:09:06] The new prime minister may be Pierre Polyev. He was recently asked what steps he would take to fix the damages done from inflation. Here is his answer. He said, first and foremost, stop the overspending. Inflation, high taxes, deficits, high interest rates are all symptoms. The disease is overspending. When governments spend too much money, there's only three ways to get it. One is to raise your taxes. The other is to borrow, which means that they'll tax you more later on. And the third way is to print money.

[00:09:34] Now, printing money seems like a painless way to pay for things. He then explained, if you have 10 apples and $10 in the economy, it's a buck an apple. If you double the number of dollars in the economy to 20, you still have 10 apples. You're not twice as rich. It's just that each apple costs twice as much. And that is a tax on the working people because it chews up the purchasing power of your paycheck only to pay for government's excessive government spending.

[00:10:00] And it balloons the asset values of the billionaires so that it's a real transfer from the have-nots to those who have yachts. Inflation is the worst and most immoral tax. It always results from government creating cash. His answer was both clear and correct. When government spends more than it takes in, the usual answer is to print more money. It really isn't that complicated. We just need more people in leadership like him.

[00:10:25] We need more politicians who understand why we have inflation and can explain the problem to the citizens. I must applaud his clear explanation and common sense solution. We need more Canadian and American leaders like him. I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my Point of View. For a free booklet on a biblical view of genetic engineering, go to viewpoints.info slash genetic engineering.

[00:10:54] Viewpoints.info slash genetic engineering. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Talking about the character of the nation with Liberty McGarter in studio, Bill Federer by phone, and you know, the American Minute. Many of you get the American Minute every day from Bill Federer, and it's, well, we're going to ask him in a minute,

[00:11:20] but I want, Liberty, during the break you saw that Trump has begun, I think, made his first executive order. What was it? Yes, it was a proclamation that in all time in the future, the flag shall be flown at full staff on inauguration day. He doesn't want other presidents to have to endure what he did today, which was it was never raised because it was frozen. Yeah, I think it was frozen in place. But yes, very, as you said, Trump-esque first proclamation for his second administration.

[00:11:50] So Bill Federer, are you surprised at that one? Yeah, well, I know that Biden had him lowered for the funeral of Jimmy Carter, and Trump had asked him to raise it. But Mike Johnson did give the Capitol the order as Speaker of the House to have the flag raised to full for Trump's inauguration. But the White House was different.

[00:12:19] I don't think they raised it at the Capitol either because they said that the cores were frozen. They couldn't do it. Hmm. Okay. That might be one of the parting things, sort of like the pardons that Biden signed of people that claim they're innocent, but why are they being pardoned if they're innocent? Yeah.

[00:12:48] Fauci, General Milley. And the Afghanistan withdrawal. And the January 6th committee and Biden's family. All pardons. Yeah, all the way back to what, 2011, Hunter got pardoned. So it's almost like get out of, I did think it was interesting that Biden gave his last interview, and it had fewer viewers than Seinfeld reruns. Wow.

[00:13:15] And there's a quote, I think, from Will Rogers or somebody, but it said, the importance of somebody is how much they'll be missed. And I don't think Biden will be missed that much. But I do thank God for Trump. I do think we've witnessed a miracle in him, number one, not getting assassinated, number two, winning the election, and number three,

[00:13:37] there literally has been nobody in my lifetime that's been through such lawfare, such weaponization of the Department of Justice. So, you know, having to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and to still be positive.

[00:13:53] And it's like it's a truly, when he said in his inaugural how he felt that God spared him to save America, I think that's a true statement. That there's nobody with as much positive bounce back that I've ever seen would have sunk a normal man.

[00:14:19] He said, God spared my life for a reason to save our country and restore America to greatness. And then I love the quote he said, we will not forget our country, we will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our God. And then another place he said, we are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God. So I think that the good Lord has answered our prayers.

[00:14:43] And we do rejoice and we do thank God that, you know, Catholic pro-life people don't have to worry about having spies in their church and Christians that speak out at school board meetings because they don't want their kids indoctrinated, don't have to worry about FBI raiding their houses.

[00:15:03] I mean, this is a reprieve and this is something that we need to thank God, but also realize that we better get into these different positions of authority while we can get on the school boards and city councils and get good people and to secure the election so they won't be voter fraud.

[00:15:25] But this is our chance because the rest of the world, you look at what's happening in Islamist countries or North Korean and communist countries or in the radical Hindu. Some of the stories coming out of areas of India that what we've had in America is a reprieve from the norm that you could be a Christian and not be persecuted by your government. We've had a very small taste of what it's like and we don't want to go back there. No, we don't.

[00:15:54] So for those that if you really believe the gospel, you're going to be involved wanting to preserve the freedom to preach it. Yes. You know, we had a victory, but now we have to claim it because it's a big country and there are all kinds of authorities in our lives all over the place. So, for instance, our good friend Kelly Shackelford claims it in the area of religious liberty, you know, through the courts.

[00:16:17] But through elections, as you said, through getting involved, through being involved as average citizens in your schools and your cities and your towns and all of that. And so, Bill, one I mean, I was kind of saying I didn't think we're a Christian country. So could you comment on that? Do you think we're no longer a Christian nation? Because I think even 30 years ago when we were all getting involved, the consensus was Christian, but it doesn't really seem like it is anymore.

[00:16:48] Yeah, well, matter of fact, it was 30 years ago I started doing my research and I went to the U.S., the CIA.gov website. All right. CIA has a website and it has on there a world fact book. And it lists every single nation in the world and every imaginable statistic you could want. Amount of variable land, gross national product, infant mortality rate and religion. And you would look up Japan, it would say 80% Buddhist. You look up Pakistan, it would say 90% Muslim.

[00:17:15] You look up, you know, Saudi Arabia is 100% Muslim, right? You look up these different countries. Well, you look up the United States and with my own eyes, I saw it. You could probably go to, you know, the Wayback website and see it. But in 30 years ago, the CIA.gov website said America was 94% Christian. And guess what? From that time on, we've been going down, down into the 70s.

[00:17:41] But the last, the most recent one was around 65% of the country identifies as Christian. Now, it's still a majority. Yeah, I mean, that's actually more than I thought. Those Christians are actually Christian. And, you know, you get the George Barnup polling and out of that 65%, you could probably consider a third of those as ones that we would consider being biblical Christians.

[00:18:06] But, nevertheless, it still could be called a Christian nation based on population. But there's four ways. The second is the founding documents that you look through all the colonial charters. Every colony was started by a different Christian denomination. Virginia was Anglican. Massachusetts was Puritan. Rhode Island was Baptist. New York was Dutch Reform. Maryland, Catholic. Connecticut and New Hampshire Congregationalists.

[00:18:35] You know, Delaware and New Jersey were Swedish Lutheran and then Dutch and, you know, Pennsylvania Quaker. And, you know, at the time of the founding, 98% of the country was Protestant. Three million people. And then 1% Catholic. 30,000 Catholics in three colonies. Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York. One tenth of a percent Jewish. There were only 3,000 Jews in a country of three million people. There were only seven synagogues in the entire nation.

[00:19:02] And then I read through every state constitution. Nine of the original 13 state constitutions required officeholders to be Protestant, Christian, dominion. The whole state office. Three said all you had to do is be a plain Christian. Right? Ben Franklin signed Pennsylvania's that said all you had to do was believe in God, creator and governor of the universe, rewarder of the good, punisher of the wicked, and acknowledge the scriptures of the old and New Testament to be given by divine inspiration. In other words, you not only had to lay your hand on a Bible, it was where you believed in it.

[00:19:31] But the idea is that, but that was liberal because you could be a Catholic or a Protestant to say, I believe in the divine inspiration of the Bible. Then Delaware's 1776 constitution required officeholders to make a declaration of belief in God, in Jesus Christ, his only son, the Holy Ghost, one God, bless her evermore. And you think, man, that's pretty narrow-minded. No, that was generous because you could be a Catholic or a Protestant to say, I believe in God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Then in the early 1800s, an Irish potato famine.

[00:20:01] Millions of Irish Catholics come to America. The Catholic percentage goes from 1% to 20%. And there's a conflict and it settles down and states change their constitution, like North Carolina in 1835, changed it from Protestant to Christian. And then there's the persecution of Jews in Bavaria and a quarter of a million Jews come across. They go from a tenth of a percent to 1%. And states like Maryland, 1851, changed their constitutions to say you had to be a Christian.

[00:20:28] Or if the party shall profess to be a Jew, the declaration shall be of a belief in a future state of reward. Okay, you've got to fast forward because we've got just a few seconds before the break. And so now everybody's tolerated and they want to be the Satanists and the Islamists and the transgenderists. And everybody wants to be tolerated. They want to be intolerant of the Christians that found the country. So it sort of backfired.

[00:20:49] But I believe with Trump and us teaching this real true history, we can begin to realize that yes, there's tolerance for all the nations because of the Christian beliefs of the founders. Bill Federer, you're a real national treasure. And I think people ought to subscribe to American Minute. It's just a blessing to have it coming into your inbox. Go to AmericanMinute.com. Is that right? Right. AmericanMinute.com. Okay, go there, subscribe. I really recommend it.

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[00:23:02] The opinions expressed on Point of View do not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station. And now, here again is Pena Dexter. And Liberty McArthur. And we are talking all things inauguration, new presidency of Donald Trump. What do we expect?

[00:23:23] And one of the things that we did see and also ahead of the inauguration, we knew the guest list that includes some of America's most influential billionaires, especially the tech titans. So you had Zuckerberg from Mada. You had Amazon founder Jeff Bezos. He also owns the Washington Post. Tim Cook at Apple. Sam Altman at OpenAI.

[00:23:48] The TikTok CEO, Shoozy Chu, I think, sitting right by Trump. Did you see? By Tulsi Gabbard. Okay. You know, who has been nominated to lead the national intelligence. So, so, and then, and then David Sachs, who's going to be the crypto czar. He's the head of Yammer. So these people, most of them gave a million dollars to the inaugural.

[00:24:14] And of course, we're, we've talked at length about Mark Zuckerberg and Mada's kind of switch over and not censor conservative ideas. And we're hoping, we're hoping that becomes foundational for them. Of course, Elon Musk. How could I not mention him? So we have all of them there and they're, they're actually, you know, going to be prominent, I think, influence, influential of this, of this president. So what do you think about that?

[00:24:43] You know, it's just so interesting, you know, kind of a side note, but not really. All this is just a reminder of how fickle we are as American people. You know, you would not have seen, you know, a major pop star, a country star singing at Trump's inauguration, you know, in 2017, or so many of these really world leaders and tech titans. But the, the vibe has changed.

[00:25:13] And I think many people are kind of falling in line behind Elon Musk. And I think that they are also sensing that we are, the culture is shifting on this and young people who are, you know, when it comes to social media, the primary demographic, they are, they're changing. And this next generation that's coming up, Gen Z and then now Gen Alpha, who's starting to use social media, are not as opposed to Trump, as I would say millennials were.

[00:25:42] And so there's this vibe shift. And I think they are realizing that they want to be ahead of the wave and not behind it and to kind of attach themselves to the coattails of what they think will be a successful administration and politics. And that's why we're starting to see those changes. Let me talk about some of the things I've posted. I've posted an article on Trump set to start slashing regulations from the Wall Street Journal. That's a point of view dot net.

[00:26:08] I've also posted something saying three Republican senators respond to a poll, which shows nearly half of D.C. federal bureaucrats aim to oppose Trump. So we'll have he will have all that opposition in the deep state he's going to have to deal with. And also I posted something on Tick Tock because Tick Tock, of course, there's been a lot of drama over the weekend. With Tick Tock, it was closed down for, what, 14 hours. It's back up.

[00:26:37] And Donald Trump says that he's going to try to extend their time to be able to get a buyer. So there's some people like Ted Cruz that are critical of that. And that that's also posted at point of view dot net. So as much as we'll try to talk about some of these, it's up there for you to read. But what do you think about it?

[00:26:59] Because I do think that the free speech of all the people that use Tick Tock and they're, you know, many of them are very kind of upset that it might go away. And yet it's a national security threat. But yeah, so it's a it's a hard one. Do you think Trump can thread the needle? Well, you know, millions of people certainly hope so. I'm not sure. I've never had Tick Tock.

[00:27:28] And so but I don't want to be insensitive to people who use it because I know even a lot of small businesses have, you know, they chose that platform to grow their business, to get their their audience, their followers. And not everybody is going to just automatically go over to Instagram. It's you know, so there is a loss there for a lot of people. But you just can't ignore some of the security threats that are there.

[00:27:53] And so one thing is, you know, with that, the bill that Congress passed, if a president does a one time 90 day extension of the deadline to either divest or shut down the app, there is supposed to be a deal already in progress, basically, you know, so that you can wrap up, tie up the loose ends of the deal. And as far as we know, there's not really anything in progress.

[00:28:16] So I know Trump was very gratified that I think Tick Tock really helped him among the younger population that helped vote him in. And so and I also think he sees an opportunity to maybe even gain more popularity now that people are about to lose it. And he wants to try to save it, you know, and kind of boost his own popularity with a segment of the American people. So it's going to be hard to do.

[00:28:40] I hope that Americans safety stays the priority with whatever he does. Well, also, it's just the idea of the separation of powers that Congress passed a bill stating what needed to happen. And so that's the needle, I think, that President Trump has to thread and make sure he complies with that law. And yet he does tend to make friends in high places.

[00:29:08] You know, so he's made friends now, I guess, with what's his name? Sho Zee Chu. I'm probably not saying it right. He's friends. So he may make a deal. There may be some kind of a deal that works, you know, to the benefit of both sides. We shall see. Yeah. Yeah. I hope so. I hope so. Yeah. And so going back to the one piece that we that we posted about the opposition that he's going to face, I think we have to face reality.

[00:29:37] He will face a lot of opposition. As a matter of fact, it has been actually encouraged by the Biden administration here at the end. And they've tried to entrench people even further and to classify them as really employees that can't be fired. In a sense, there's certain classifications. And so I think what's going to happen is you're going to have Doge, which is now Elon Musk. I guess it won't be Ramaswamy and Musk.

[00:30:07] And they're going to be working with Russell Vogt, who is the head of Office of Management and Budget. And they will try to get rid of disloyal people. Well, I think this shows, again, what you all have talked about on Point of View so much already, is that when you have a bloated bureaucracy, you're going to run into more of this because you've got people who weren't elected

[00:30:32] that are able to really influence the daily lives of Americans and the kind of policies that they will put forth or not enact. And so, again, you have a president that has been elected by the people. No argument there with his election. And now the role of government is to continue to do the will of the people.

[00:30:58] And so that means allowing the different branches of government to function, including Congress, you know, with their laws being able to be upheld, but also, you know, the Republican administration not being impeded by the bureaucracy. When Trump was in the White House before, he had a lot of opposition from these types of people that were entrenched in the bureaucracies.

[00:31:21] Some people just undermining his policies or refusing to implement them. And so I think that, again, you know, a lot of the things he does stems from the bad experience he's already had. So, you know, I think that was probably true of the flag, the flag raising. And it's also true here where he's going to do all he can.

[00:31:45] And he's already seated his cabinet with people that are going to try to sort of weed those people out. And I do think it's interesting, you know, again, I mentioned a few minutes ago that 87 percent, I believe, of Americans support the major policies that Trump has talked about, even though he is not very popular.

[00:32:09] But a lot fewer Americans believe that he will refrain from going after political opponents. And I do hope that there is self-control there, because, again, you have to deal. And it's going to be hard, too, with the mainstream media to get honest reporting on what's really going on, because you might have some sort of sabotage going on internally from the bureaucracies that he wants to deal with.

[00:32:33] But you also, you know, want to make sure that he's focusing on moving forward and not looking back. How is that going to be perceived by the public, though, if he, you know, pushes back against legitimate problems within the bureaucracy? Is that going to be seen as him just attacking political opponents and kind of, you know, hurt some of his popularity and policies going forward? So it's going to be, you know, a really interesting path that he's got to walk there.

[00:32:58] Yes. And I think part of that is there's a whole huge swath of Americans who don't like to see people get away with things. And some of the things that had been done to Trump were outright illegal. And, you know, some of the some of those things have have to be legitimately dealt with. And so, you know, Pam Bondi would she she also walked, you know, a pretty good line in her hearing.

[00:33:27] So I you know, I don't know what what will happen with regard to people that legitimately went after Trump in ways that were unconstitutional and illegal. And they may have to be dealt with. We've got one more segment and we've got a lot to fit in, but we'll do it. Won't we? We'll be right back.

[00:33:45] You're listening to Point of View, your listener supported source for truth. Welcome back to Point of View. We're talking about the fact that we have a new president. He was inaugurated today. Some things are going to change. A lot of things will change and maybe quicker than we think.

[00:34:15] I do want to mention one more thing that I posted at pointofview.net having to do with the issue of the sanctity of human life. And this is Sanctity of Human Life Week 2. I'm going to try to cover that. I'm hosting the show on Wednesday. I think Buddy Matthews is in Kirby's absence is hosting tomorrow. And Josh Hawley, the senator from Missouri, has said that Trump should set the moral tone for America by overturning Biden's abortion agenda.

[00:34:44] And there are a lot of things that Biden did. Like, for instance, there's something called the Mexico City policy, which prohibits federal funding for international organizations like Planned Parenthood that perform or promote abortions. And every president, if the White House changes parties, the position on the Mexico City policy also changes.

[00:35:07] So it will probably Trump will switch the position and he will prohibit federal funding for international organizations. And then there's the Comstock Act, which restricts the mailing of abortion inducing drugs that have killed millions of babies. And that's not being enforced under it wasn't under Biden. Hopefully, according to Josh Hawley, that will be enforced.

[00:35:30] And I might mention when you think about abortion, Cecile Richards died today, 67 years old. She was many years the president of Planned Parenthood. And I think she succumbed to cancer. It's really interesting. It was on the day Trump was inaugurated. But we fund Planned Parenthood with our tax dollars in some ways.

[00:35:54] And so that could be something that this Congress could also make, you know, not happening anymore. I mean, it's there, you know, what they always do. They always say that they are against federal funding of Planned Parenthood. But through various programs, the money does slip through. Yeah. And does enrich that organization. Yeah.

[00:36:16] So, you know, I was encouraged in the first hour when we interviewed Jenny, the president of March for Life on, you know, just the representatives from Congress that are going to be speaking at the march. Yeah. And, you know, you I'm hopeful that the things that are mentioned in this article that we have posted, some of the federal actions that can be taken to defund abortion federally and internationally. I hope that those will take place.

[00:36:43] But we also know that, you know, from Trump's perspective, the issue has been returned back to the states and he hasn't said a whole lot of, you know, doing anything different than that. So it's encouraging to see that hopefully there are still conservatives in Congress that are committed to the issue of life and will push for maybe some federal changes. Because, again, this goes back to common sense. Trump talks about a revolution of common sense. We don't need to be funding Planned Parenthood on a federal level, especially if the issue is in the states.

[00:37:13] We don't need to be funding abortion internationally. And we don't we need to stop the mailing of abortion pills, which, as we talked about earlier in the show, are, you know, not only killing unborn life, but extremely dangerous for women and often are being taken illicitly by underage girls, too. Yes. And, you know, I'm really hopeful that I think President Trump's sensibilities are pro-life.

[00:37:38] I think he tried to walk again, walk a line because the power of the abortion issue in the 2022 elections and how, you know, so many states it was mentioned also earlier in the program. So many states went for these draconian laws that said that, you know, you could pretty much wipe out most of the restrictions on abortion and commit abortion very late in pregnancy.

[00:38:08] And many states who like Kansas was the very first one to pass something like that. It was a voter referendum. Well, in this last election, there were, I think, three states that and we did a lot on South Dakota. We talked with them and they were working really hard to defeat that kind of a law. South Dakota is arguably one of the most pro-life state in the country.

[00:38:32] I guess Texas is now, too, because we don't do abortions here unless it's the life of the mother. So, anyway, I think that that might be something that's sort of changing as the word gets out there that because I think one of the misnomers that the media would report was that if you were struggling,

[00:38:53] if you did have a health issue and, you know, it's pretty rare, but it happens that the mother needs to not be pregnant anymore or she's going to die or she's going to have big problems. So, so much of the media reporting about that said that hospitals could not take those actions. And that's not true. And so, you know, some of the truth is getting out.

[00:39:20] And so we need we need to become we need to let those restrictions flourish and grow on abortion to protect women and, of course, protect unborn children, don't we? Oh, yeah. And this is just one of the examples of where, you know, the action that we take in our communities is, you know, a large part, if not, you know, in the long term view. The most important part is to really change the culture on this.

[00:39:49] And one of you know, there is so much fear mongering about what just what you were mentioning. There's a big difference in taking an action to save someone's life in a health emergency that might tragically result in the loss of a baby and then electing abortion for the purpose of killing an unborn child. And so we need to be vocal about articulating that. That's something you can even talk to, you know, your neighbors or your friends or the people in your life who I think are worried that women are not going to get the care they need.

[00:40:19] And again, that's a myth. And so this is, you know, we we work for on the political front for changes that can be made and partner with, you know, politicians who are willing to make those changes. But again, on the cultural front, we have to be educating those around us, helping mothers and doing the work on the grassroots level, too.

[00:40:41] And one other area I think that can be pro-life is the Justice Department and what they do when people are making their voices heard around abortion clinics. Whether they allow a reasonable amount of that type of activity and protest, which is constitutionally protected in the United States. But there's been so much of that at pregnancy centers that have been attacked.

[00:41:07] They've been they've been actually experienced destruction. And so people that that do that, they need to be punished just as they try to punish people that are making their voices heard about abortion. And that seems to under this prior administration have been just done so much.

[00:41:27] And yet those who destroy, you know, pregnancy centers and just destroy property there and all of that, that I think and pray and hope that will change also. Yes. And, you know, President Trump did mention in his inauguration address, one of the first things he mentioned in terms of changes was not weaponizing the Justice Department.

[00:41:54] And so there are pro-life activists who are peaceful that are sitting in prison right now. I hope that they are remembered when he begins making pardons. Well, ladies and gentlemen, before we go, I just want to read a little something from someone who wrote after the election, after the election of Donald Trump. His name is Owen Strahan. I think he's affiliated with the Family Research Council. He was.

[00:42:23] But he's a really good thinker sort of about politics and our Christian underpinnings to politics. And he said, you know, it's official. Donald Trump is the 47th president of America. That was after the election. It's really official now. And he says, for the second time in my lifetime, Trump has stormed the political scene and won an election. But he goes on a little bit later to say, Trump is not the true victor here.

[00:42:49] God is the one who has acted in immeasurable mercy toward our nation. God is the one who gets all the glory and deserves all the praise in his magnificent kindness and common grace. God has chosen to spare us the plenches, vicissitudes of the other administration that we could have had. So we need to thank him. And ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us today. And thank you, Liberty, for being here. It almost seems like we live in a different world from many people in positions of authority.

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