Point of View January 22, 2025 – Hour 1 : Roe Vs. Wade Anniversary

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View. And now, Hannah Dexter. Thank you very much for joining us ladies and gentlemen. Sometimes I can't believe I get to talk to the people that I get to talk to on this program because so many are doing so many wonderful and positive things for the country.

[00:00:34] And that's very true of my guests today on the program. First of all, we're going to kind of relate everything to this two day old Trump administration. And one of the issues surrounding that, of course, has been the issue of tick tock. It's been in the news. And will there be a tick tock after a period of time?

[00:01:01] I'm going to talk a little bit later in the program with really someone who has been dealing for decades on internet safety. And tick tock, the problems with tick tock are internet safety, sort of the toxic content that can be found there.

[00:01:19] But also, the big reason for the U.S. Congress banning it or saying it had to be sold to an American company is national security and just the ability to scoop up all kinds of information on users. So with me to talk about tick tock and internet safety as a whole is going to be a little bit later in the program, Donna Rice Hughes.

[00:01:46] She is CEO and president of enough is enough. And then, of course, the new inner the new administration has already reversed much of the sort of climate change related, which is a misnomer. I'm so glad we'll perhaps be able to get rid of that term because the climate changes all the time.

[00:02:09] But to get rid of some of the policies with regard to that, the Green New Deal, we've already taken steps to pull out of the Paris Climate Accords. And so we will be talking about that with Carla Sands, who she's done many things. She's an amazing person, but she has been the U.S. ambassador under the first Trump administration to Denmark.

[00:02:33] And she is an expert on Greenland, which is pretty much controlled by Denmark now. But President Trump would like to see greater ties with the United States. And so, you know, that's been kind of an issue that's been previewed in the run up to the inauguration. But we will talk with Carla Sands about it, Ambassador Carla Sands. And also she's with the America First Policy Institute, and she's been working on environmental and energy policy.

[00:03:03] So all of these all of these orders, executive orders that are coming out from the Trump administration right now, I know she's been working on it. So I'm so excited to talk with her also. And, you know, something else that was announced today was that that DEI, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion personnel in the U.S. government, which there are a lot of them, and we spend a lot of money on it, and it causes so many problems.

[00:03:33] They basically are being given administrative leave, paid leave. They'll be gone. And I think they're going to be gone by the end of today. So I'm going to talk about that on the program. I do want to mention that today is the anniversary of Roe v. Wade. So we think of this as sort of a time to, even though we don't have Roe v. Wade anymore,

[00:04:00] we think of it as a time to talk about the sanctity of human life. There have been 65 million abortions done under that Roe regime. When Roe was struck down by the Dobbs decision, we had some disappointing actions from some of the states, actually some states that are kind of reddish or purplish, like Kansas,

[00:04:28] that implemented draconian laws allowing abortion all the way to the moment of birth and really striking down many of the restrictions the state already had on abortion. Now, in the last election, we had three states that actually beat back those kinds of bills. So there was some movement in the right direction. But the bottom line to those comments is that the pro-life movement is still needed and it's still very strong.

[00:04:58] And there are some events that are taking place in Washington, D.C. this week, because the Sanctity of Life Week today, of course, is the anniversary. And although it's been overturned, Roe v. Wade has been overturned, January 22, 1973 is a day that will live in infamy. And that is the day, of course, that seven unelected men approved abortion throughout pregnancy for any reason.

[00:05:25] And it led to the figure that I mentioned earlier, 65 million children, and the wounding of millions of mothers and fathers who underwent abortion. And so there is a group of pro-life organizations today who hosted, this has already taken place, a prayer vigil outside the courthouse. It was about noon today, Eastern time. And it memorialized the children who were victims of the Roe decision.

[00:05:52] And the people that were gathered there were praying for those who have been physically or emotionally harmed by abortion. So those prayers went out today. So that's what happened. And then we talked earlier in the week. I was on the show on Monday, and I spoke with a representative from the March for Life, which still goes on post-Dobbs. And that will take place in D.C. on Friday, the 24th.

[00:06:22] And they're going to have a protest tomorrow outside Planned Parenthood's Carol Whitehill Moses Center, also in D.C. So every day, today, tomorrow, and Friday, these events are taking place in Washington, D.C. And they're going to have a press conference tomorrow. Tomorrow, it's going to focus on the need to defund Planned Parenthood and the entire abortion industry,

[00:06:48] which I think is very important under the Trump administration. It really needs to happen. So that center where pro-lifers are going to meet is the D.C. headquarters of the nation's largest abortion business, Planned Parenthood. And Planned Parenthood still receives state funding from certain states across the nation. I think there's some federal funding.

[00:07:13] And certainly we need to see complete defunding of abortion under the Trump administration. And I think that will – I really have – even though that was not an issue that was talked about a lot in the run-up to the inauguration and certainly in the election, the Trump campaign basically kind of stayed away from the issue for reasons that we probably all kind of could see.

[00:07:44] It was such a big issue in the losses in Congress in 2022. So – but it's still an administration that I believe will protect the sanctity of human life. But it's going to take the pro-life movement to really stay on top of it and to really communicate the need to protect the sanctity of human life. And President Trump said he was saved from assassination attempts by God for a reason.

[00:08:13] And that is one of the reasons we in this country cannot be a nation that supports the death culture that abortion brings, that Planned Parenthood brings. And so, you know, every pro-lifer that I have on the air that I come in contact with, I always encourage to stay with the fight because it's an important one. Well, next up, we're going to talk about some of the things coming out of this White House.

[00:08:42] Stay with us for more of Point of View. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. The year 1776 changed the Western world in significant ways. That is the conclusion of Andrew Wilson, pastor of King's Church in London,

[00:09:11] in his book Remaking the World. He was on my radio program to discuss his book. He explains that the big idea of this book is that 1776, more than any other year in the last millennium, is a year that made us who we are. He describes it as a year that witnessed seven transformations taking place. Globalization, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the Great Enrichment, the American Revolution, the rise of post-Christianity, and the dawn of Romanticism.

[00:09:38] He describes this society as one relative to others past and present is weirder. Each letter is an acronym. He concludes that the vast majority of people in human history have not shared our views about work, family, government, religion, sex, identity, or morality. W stands for Western and focuses on the issue of globalization. One key event is the voyage of Captain James Cook.

[00:10:03] His travels generated certain questions like, why were some natives more advanced than others? Western society began to get into the deep roots of culture and wondered why Western society developed before other cultures. E stands for educated and focuses on the impact of the Enlightenment. Obviously, the Enlightenment started nearly a century before, but one high point was 1776. That was the year that Emanuel Kant drafted his critique of pure reason

[00:10:30] and the year that Edward Gibbon published his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Tomorrow, we'll look at other events in 1776 that led to the remaking of our world. 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. viewpoints.info slash genetic engineering.

[00:10:58] You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Welcome back to Point of View. I'm Penna Dexter. Kelly Chackelford just sent me an email with an article linked to it from Fox News. Another piece of news. There's so much news coming out of the Trump White House right now. This one says,

[00:11:20] The U.S. State Department has adopted a new policy under the Trump administration that effectively blocks U.S. embassies and outposts from flying Pride and Black Lives Matter flags. This is a new report. The Washington Free Beacon reported it, that it obtained a copy of the One Flag Policy Order, which permits only the American flag to be flown at U.S. facilities at home and abroad, with two notable exceptions.

[00:11:49] One of them is the Prisoner of War Missing in Action, POW MIA emblem. That can be flown. And the Wrongful Detainees flag. But other than that, starting immediately, only the United States of America flag is authorized to be flown or displayed at U.S. facilities, both domestic and abroad, and featured in U.S. government content. This is a memo that the Washington Free Beacon got a hold of.

[00:12:16] The flag of the United States of America, this memo says, united all Americans under the universal principles of justice, liberty, and democracy. These values, which are the bedrock of our great country, are shared by all American citizens, past and present. And, you know, we've been a bit, well, there's been controversy over some of the flags that have been flown,

[00:12:42] because they represent perhaps the views of the former administration on LGBT issues, and also on sort of the Black Lives Matter type of Marxism and all of that. So none of that will be now transmitted across the world from the United States of America, and I think that's a good thing. It's also very interesting, and let me find the article on this.

[00:13:11] But on the day of the inauguration, it was also the opening day of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. And so, you know, that's kind of an interesting, I don't know, I think it was interesting that all the tech titans were at the inauguration, but they could have been at Davos,

[00:13:38] but they chose to be at President Trump's inauguration. And something that's happened, and I can't seem to find my article on it, but I was reading in the Wall Street Journal this morning, that many of the sort of billionaire company heads at Davos, you would think, you know, they were actually trying to figure out how to get around Donald Trump's policies here in the U.S. when he was, during his first administration.

[00:14:06] But now a lot of them are more optimistic because they're seeing, of course, that perhaps their companies and just the economy, the world economy as a whole, could benefit from some of America's policies that Donald Trump actually might bring forward. And, of course, you're seeing him this time acting so, so fast, so quickly. And here I found the Wall Street Journal piece.

[00:14:36] It says that global elite gird for Trump 2.0. So they're saying this one. I just think it's kind of funny, the turnaround that you see. Norway's foreign minister, and his name is Espen Bartheid. Probably not pronouncing it right. He says we've learned that he goes out maximalist, and then he starts negotiating. Of course, he talks about tariffs.

[00:15:03] He talks about now, I guess, reconsidering all foreign aid. And, you know, he doesn't want a lot of warmongering and, you know, the endless wars position that he's taken against those. So, you know, they see that he does. He begins with a very, very bold, bright line. And sometimes there's a negotiation.

[00:15:32] It's called the art of the deal. But anyway, this foreign minister for Norway says we've learned that he goes out maximalist. And then he starts negotiating. This wasn't really known to us last time. This is now factored in. And so this was during an interview that happened at Davos this week. He said he has learned to take Trump seriously, but not always literally.

[00:15:57] If we run around commenting on every truth social post, you know, we will have nothing else to do. He said he still has questions such as how Trump would handle Ukraine. I think a lot of us have questions about that. And I think it depends on what happens. U.S. support for NATO, that's another question they have. And they're probably all wondering what that's going to be like.

[00:16:22] I think most of his position is that he wants everybody else to, especially the European countries, to be sure that they support NATO with not only their money. And he was somewhat successful in getting them to ante up a little bit more. But there's more progress to be made there, but also just with their militaries and to actually take responsibility for some of their own security.

[00:16:51] But, again, this particular leader from Norway said, we will go in and discuss this with the new administration and see that posture, says the Wall Street Journal, is widespread in Davos, making a contrast or marking a contrast to 2017 when Trump sent shockwaves and uneaves through many corporate boardrooms and foreign capitals.

[00:17:15] Now, eight years later, many top diplomatic officials and titans of business are greeting Trump's second presidency with cautious optimism that he can help advance their interests. Some of them describe the 45th and 47th president's desire for more nationalist U.S. immigration and trade policies as an expected and not surprising part of the bargain of doing business with the U.S. So they understand that Trump puts America first.

[00:17:45] And there are going to be times when that is actually better for their countries, too. In fact, it should be better. Chief executive of the information technology company Hewlett Packard Enterprise. His name is Antonio Neri. And he says he's optimistic about the incoming Trump administration.

[00:18:06] He says it's still early, but he says he thinks the U.S. is incredibly well poised to take advantage of these massive inflection points such as artificial intelligence.

[00:18:20] And again, in the last day or so, there's been an announcement of the AI program that the UI is going to implement that's going to basically put the United States a huge investment of money and many, many, many people hired into it. So as to, I guess, get a framework for how AI is going to be implemented.

[00:18:49] And I think that's a good thing. The Biden administration was a little more just negative on it and wanting to control it and wanting to, you know, kind of put some restrictions. And I'm sure there will be some restrictions, but it's seen more as an opportunity. And so, of course, you know, we conservatives will be watching closely.

[00:19:13] But he's putting some big money and some very highly placed experts on the job. So that will be, you know, a discussion point at Davos also, the World Economic Forum. Trump was sworn in, of course, as president, as I mentioned, on the opening day of this conference. And in Washington, you saw seated behind Trump.

[00:19:40] They were, you know, in prominent positions where everybody could see, even those watching on TV, were a plethora of CEOs there. Of course, Sindar Pichai of Google. I don't even know if I'm saying his name right. But I can say Mark Zuckerberg from Meta. I can say Elon Musk from Tesla and all the other companies and also the head of Doge.

[00:20:06] And I can, you know, I can mention several others. There are several tech titans that were there. Jeff Bezos of The Washington Post and certainly Amazon. So they were there and they are cooperating with President Trump. And so at least initially here in this administration, there's good relationships with them.

[00:20:34] And we're going to hopefully see also the draconian and heavy hand of censorship lifted from social media. And I hope that really, truly happens. And I guess that's why I have to have a bit of a light heart today, because I see a lot of positive things coming out of the White House. Perhaps there are some things that you disagree with and we'll take your calls later in the program about that or that you like in the final two segments of the program.

[00:21:03] We will do that. We'll hold some open lines. But next up, we are going to talk a bit about TikTok and also about Internet safety and how to protect our kids online with an expert on it, Donna Rice Hughes. I'm so thankful that she was able to join me today. She's very busy in what she does, but she's doing some good work out there. So you won't want to miss it. Stick with us for more of Point of View.

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[00:22:57] You are listening to Point of View. 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 Penna Dexter. Welcome back to Point of View. Last week, this issue got a little bit lost in, I think, the inaugural festivities and the upcoming inauguration of President Trump.

[00:23:27] But there was a case at the Supreme Court that's quite interesting. And last week, Texas Attorney General Kim Paxton went to Washington, D.C. to argue a case before the Supreme Court. While he was there, he attended a couple of the inaugural balls, pre-inauguration balls that took place over the weekend.

[00:23:51] But before that, he was, last Wednesday, a week ago today, he was to argue before the Supreme Court on a case. And he took his tux for the balls, but he forgot his suit. So apparently, he argued this case before the U.S. Supreme Court in a tux. And so, you know, that was, I guess, maybe indicative of the importance or formality of the issue.

[00:24:19] But the case that he argued had to do with a law that Texas passed back in 2023. This law says that pornography purveyors, which are websites whose content is more than one-third sexual material harmful to minors, that they must use reasonable age verification methods. This was, the Texas law was HB 1181.

[00:24:43] And it was actually introduced by my state representative, Matt Sahin, who's been on this program several times. If you include the Texas House and the Texas Senate, that law requiring age verification of minors accessing pornography, it passed 164 to 1. It also, a similar law, well, many states have passed similar laws. One was Louisiana.

[00:25:13] It passed 131. Virginia passed the same kind of a law, 134 to 2. And Arkansas, Utah, and Utah passed laws unanimously. These laws are protective of minors. And they forced the websites to verify the age of those using them. The lead challenger challenging this law was a group called the Free Speech Coalition. It's an adult entertainment industry group.

[00:25:43] And it argues, in this case, that age verification is too great a burden on the First Amendment rights of adult Texans. So you can't protect kids because you're infringing on the rights of adults who want to use pornography. So Texas argues that through smartphones, and I'm quoting from now Texas's, I believe it's the brief or the testimony.

[00:26:07] Through smartphones, children have instantaneous access to unlimited amounts of adult hardcore pornography. And I did find out that part of the facts of this case are that 53% of children have a smartphone by age 11. I think that's not a good thing, whether you're considering porn or not. But it's the truth.

[00:26:31] And so these kids, they can find content, and they can do it totally unsupervised by their own parents. And so the sites have to bear some responsibility for verifying the age of these kids using it. The argument, there's one argument against it, though. Requiring an ID online opens a risk of hacking.

[00:26:54] So, in other words, if the child had to give some kind of an ID, they're at risk of being hacked because their information is out there. But some sites take credit cards anyway. I mean, they're in it to make money, right? So you've already got that risk out there. That's really a bogus argument. And this case was argued. Ken Paxton, he's a brilliant attorney general of Texas.

[00:27:19] Texas passes some of the most protective laws for kids on these issues. And so now we're about waiting for what the Supreme Court does. I understand the people that listen to the arguments that it sounded like it went pretty well for Texas. So that's good. But it is a state law telling websites that they need to screen for minors.

[00:27:44] And so I'm glad that it sounded positive. And usually we hear these verdicts, these rulings come down in like May or June. So that's probably what will happen. The free speech coalition that was suing against this Texas law, they lost their court battle at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

[00:28:11] They appealed the case, which is now at the Supreme Court. And, of course, the outcome, it will go well beyond Texas. This is what Mary Elizabeth Castle says, and she is with Texas Values. Texas passed the age verification law because our state understands that giving kids unfettered access to pornography is detrimental to their development, their relationships, and how they view themselves.

[00:28:37] After passing this life-saving law, we must continue the fight for Texas kids at the Supreme Court. And the reason Texas Values put out a press release on this is they signed on to an amicus brief for this case with other state family policy councils. So, you know, there's a chance that we could get another level of protection for kids as the Supreme Court takes up obscenity.

[00:29:04] Mike Ferris, who's a friend of our program, also weighed in on this. He is counsel, general counsel for the National Religious Broadcasters. And he talks about the oral arguments. He was probably there because he lives in the D.C. He works in the D.C. area for NRB. And he says the porn industry concedes that the goal of the Texas law is constitutionally legitimate.

[00:29:28] So even the porn industry admits that it's legitimate to try to get an age, some sort of age verification for people using their porn services. But their lawyers contend that the operation of the law would interfere with the right of adults to access constitutionally protected speech. In other words, it's okay to protect the kids, but not if it interferes with the right of adults to access porn.

[00:29:57] The questioning in the case seemed to lead, says Mike Ferris, slightly in favor of upholding the Texas law. But this outcome will require the court to either limit or reverse a prior decision that struck down a law of Congress. But maybe it's good that we would actually reverse that law because it was it needs that we need it to be very protective of children. We live in a different environment before online porn and after.

[00:30:26] They're just very different because of the privacy that children have when they have a smartphone. This letter from Mike Ferris says it is true according to the Supreme Court's definitions. There are certain levels of sexually explicit material that fall short of the legal definition of obscenity. But he says it's equally true that governments can prohibit such material from being sold or made available to minors.

[00:30:50] So this is the question we've had some basically timid prosecutors, Mike Ferris says, of his obvious obscenity to just kind of try to push the theory that this material is protected by the Constitution. And adults have a right to obtain it, but kids shouldn't be using it. And so we need to take strong stances against that. And we will be doing that.

[00:31:19] And certainly there's a lot more that needs to be done about online content. One of those things is TikTok. And we still really don't know exactly what is going to happen because it went dark. As most of you know, we talked about this on Friday here on Point of View. It went dark. And the kids, it's mostly young people that use TikTok, you know, they were upset and sad about it

[00:31:48] and not happy about losing, you know, sort of an activity that they spend hours a day doing sometimes. But when Trump came back, there is, I guess, embedded in the law that Congress passed that bans TikTok or says it has to be sold to an American company. There's a time frame. There's an extension of time to allow that happen. And Trump has taken advantage of that.

[00:32:17] He issued an executive order not to enforce TikTok's penalties against companies that host the TikTok app for 75 days. So that's where we are right now with TikTok. This is to provide for really in the law while challenging the law in court. TikTok rebuffed many potential people that wanted to buy them. So they didn't even talk to those people.

[00:32:44] Well, now they are talking to potential buyers, and Trump is talking about some kind of deal. Now, any deal that Trump or others make on TikTok has to comply with the law that was recently passed by Congress, which provides, quote, the establishment or maintenance of any operational relationship with a foreign nation is prohibited.

[00:33:08] So China ByteDance cannot be involved in TikTok in order for it to remain online here in the United States. And, you know, if that changes, it's going to have to thread a lot of needles legally. So I'm thinking that there will be something that happens if TikTok is saved with a private buyers and subcompany that cuts China and ByteDance totally out of the equation. Let's hope so.

[00:33:37] So stick with us for more Point of View. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Welcome back to Point of View. I'm Penna Dexter.

[00:34:04] And I have to apologize because I did preview a couple of guests that were going to join me today on the program, and we're having technical issues. So I haven't been able to connect up with them, and I'm hoping that that changes pretty soon. But I do want to, because I was talking about Internet porn, especially childhood safety on the Internet. Let's put it that way. That's more the issue.

[00:34:31] And this article popped up when I was kind of looking at this issue in anticipation of my interview. But the title of the article is, It Stole My Childhood. Wow.

[00:34:49] It's a story about Taylor Mathoka, who was first exposed to pornography at the age of seven. A friend showed it to her online, and all the children had to do to access the website was check a box saying they were 18. Little did she know that moment would lead to a 10-year addiction.

[00:35:15] That one moment of exposure stole my innocence, she said, and stole my childhood with no barriers in place and no meaningful age verification. So this was part of the evidence for age verification requirements for porn companies, porn websites. And Representative Mary Miller, who's a Republican from Illinois and advocates for these age verification laws,

[00:35:44] provided this article. The one moment of exposure stole my innocence, it stole my childhood, says Taylor, with no barriers in place, no meaningful age verification. I was exposed to violent and disturbing content that no one should ever see, especially not a child. She's now a wife and mother and founder of Freedom Hub, which is a nonprofit dedicated to ending human trafficking.

[00:36:09] And she went to speak at the Supreme Court a week ago today, last Wednesday, and it was freezing then, and she braved freezing temperatures to get there because you have to walk up a lot of steps. It is cold right now in D.C. And she went to the Supreme Court, and she urged it to declare Texas law requiring age verification to access porn websites constitutional. So this is the case, again, we've been talking about it, Free Speech Coalition versus Paxton.

[00:36:37] And the high court's going to decide whether the age verification law violates free speech rights. So, you know, there were lots of different good testimonies from different groups to talk about this. But Terry Schilling from the American Principles Project said this is not a conservative versus liberal thing. As a matter of fact, it really isn't. It's not partisan. It's not political.

[00:37:07] And I think there was a coalition against pornography under the Reagan administration that he formed, that people that we know, like Alan Sears from Alliance Defending Freedom, like Mark Levin, who has this nationwide radio program, and Ed Meese. They were all part of this pornography commission. And those people that I'm mentioning are conservative.

[00:37:34] But there were people from the left there, too, because porn is bad for everybody's kids. And it's just a – it's really something that a nation should do all they can to prosecute when it's illegal and other times strengthen the laws, which they're trying to do right now. This member of Congress, though, Mary Miller from Illinois, she is founder of the Congressional Family Caucus.

[00:38:01] And she introduced a bill called SCREEN, shielding children's retinas from egregious exposure on the net. So they have to figure out a way to make these acronyms work. And so they use the word retina. I like that. So she says this bill, this act, I think she wrote the bill, and at least she introduced it to require all commercial pornography websites to adopt age verification technology.

[00:38:30] She says, I'm a strong supporter of the First Amendment, and I appreciate the right to speak today in front of the Supreme Court. But the First Amendment does not give predatory companies the right to produce obscene content that can be accessed by minor children. So, you know – and she made a good point. Websites for alcohol and tobacco require age verification. They don't seem to be worried about hacking on those.

[00:38:56] But she said online for these obscene materials need to be treated the same way. I hope you agree with that. And, well, make your voice heard when issues like that come before – when issues like that come before our government, our lawmakers.

[00:39:18] And it's just going to be a lot of fun, I think, to see – I mean, I see so many gratifying things coming out of the Trump administration right now. But to see what Congress is able to do, even with a very narrow House of Representatives. And so that's going to be a lot of fun.

[00:39:38] Well, ladies and gentlemen, there are many, many bills that are executive orders, and it was so much fun – I guess it was Monday evening – to watch, even late into the evening before probably making Melania and Donald Trump late to the balls that were out there, the inaugural balls.

[00:40:00] But he was just sitting there in the Oval Office with reporters, and he was signing executive order after executive order after executive order. And, you know, with all kinds of energy and enthusiasm and just really, really kind of playing it up with – as only Donald Trump can do.

[00:40:25] And so, you know, a lot of those now we're starting to see – we're starting to see the news that they're being acted upon. So here's one of the – one of the surprising things coming out of the administration. I thought – but I guess Trump has the goal to really do this.

[00:40:48] He's demanding that a bishop, an Episcopal bishop, the Right Reverend Mary Ann Budd – she leads the Episcopal Diocese of Washington. And I don't know if you saw this, but she gave a sermon at the National Prayer Service on Tuesday, and she said that – she asked President Trump – she spoke directly to him – to have mercy on immigrants and gay and transgender children.

[00:41:15] She spoke at this service, and she definitely is known as a Trump hater, and Trump knows that. But he said she brought her church into the world of politics in a very ungracious way and was kind of nasty in tone and not compelling.

[00:41:33] He wants her to apologize because President Trump has now, of course – he has defined gender as – well, he said there's only two genders, male and female. And that's going to be the official policy for the United States government.

[00:41:55] And that's making – according to this bishop from the Episcopal Church, it's making her – it's making them afraid. In fact, they're fearing for their lives over this. And also his immigration policies and the deportation of illegals that's about to take place. And, of course, it's starting – it's becoming clearer and clearer. It's starting with people who are actually criminals or have criminal records, who are terrorists.

[00:42:22] But, you know, she's worried about the law-abiding, hardworking immigrants that are in the U.S. that are fearing for their lives now and fearing for their position here in the United States. And, you know, part of this is – I don't mean to sound callous, but there's a new administration, and this administration is going to follow the rule of law. And sometimes some people get hurt with this.

[00:42:51] I don't think they're going to try to hurt people. What they're going to try to do is protect the homeland, protect the American citizen and American people, and do the best they can with others who are here. I really do think that is what's going to happen. Well, stick with us for more. I've got a lot more in my pile. A child you knew would do great things. They displayed remarkable imagination, understanding, and a zest for learning.

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