Point of View June 14, 2024 – Hour 2 : Weekend Edition

[00:00:00] The Democratic Party on door knocks and some of those issues. I thought maybe before we're done this hour, I might get some comments around the table about the Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has been impeached once and now been held in contempt of Congress.

[00:01:01] And of course, we also have some articles about voter turnout and all the rest. So a lot of things to cover. Maybe take the easy one first, easy in the sense that I think we all are agreeing with that.

[00:01:12] We are now aware that we have had individuals crossing the border for some time. We know that in addition to the 8 million individuals that have actually surrendered, there are another 2 million gotaways. But what's so interesting about these individuals from Tajikistan is that they actually gave themselves up.

[00:01:35] So they're not part of the 2 million gotaways. They actually thought they could game the system and until fairly recently, Kelly, I guess they did. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, this is this is one of those issues. It's just too hard to follow. I mean, the American people are infuriated.

[00:01:55] There's so many things that happens here. I mean, not only terrorists coming over the border, you know, all these Chinese nationals and all these other folks. But I mean, fentanyl, how many young people in the United States who have died?

[00:02:09] You know, the issue of people, you know, of people's wages being depressed because there's all these people coming over the border illegally and filling these jobs who are here illegally. I mean, they're just there's a there's a lot of issues, you know.

[00:02:25] But I mean, that's one of the reasons, for instance, that you got African-American voters at 25 percent supporting Trump. And so so it's it's been maddening, I think, to most Americans. And then for, you know, I mean, Trump, if people need to remember when he came in, the

[00:02:46] border was kind of a mess and he tried he was trying some things. It was getting heavy criticism. That's when they showed the pictures of people in cages when it was really from the Obama time. So it's kind of bizarre.

[00:02:59] But he actually it took him a while to figure out the solution. But he came up with a solution. He had a lot of executive orders and things with other countries, but they actually started controlling the border.

[00:03:08] And I think everybody remembers that on day one, Obama, I mean, Biden threw all of those out. He bragged about 61 executive orders and regulations. You threw them all out. And then for him to come back and say, we need some sort of legislation.

[00:03:27] It's like, no, it was it was actually kind of fixed until you took over. And then to come forward with this recent proposal. Oh, yes. We're just going to limit it to, you know, it gets to over twenty five hundred a day.

[00:03:41] Then, you know, it's like, well, it's like, OK, we're going to allow you. Well, we're only allow 50 murders, you know, a day or whatever. It's like what? This is the dumbest thing. And so none of this is working.

[00:03:54] American people aren't buying it and it doesn't make any sense. I think it's the I don't know what's what's worse as far as what moves people to vote. But it's probably inflation first and then this second. But this is way up at the top.

[00:04:10] Yeah, we're going to talk about inflation just a minute. I always call the eyes immigration, inflation in Israel. But you know, this executive order that the president came down with the other day, we had Representative Michael McCaul on there and he wasn't taking that for a second because

[00:04:25] he's actually been involved in border issues. And again, a lot of it is, I would have to say, Jeff, risk versus reward. The risk was pretty high when you had President Trump building a wall, having stay in Mexico, actually deporting individuals.

[00:04:43] And so the risk was higher than the reward. You reverse all of those. Then the reward is higher than the risk. We shouldn't be surprised. We have 10 million people in the country in the last three and a half years. Exactly.

[00:04:54] If you don't enforce the law, then guess what? When you don't enforce the law, then you encourage lawlessness. And I actually think of it from that perspective is, I mean, this is not fair. It's not fair to the person trying to get into our country. Of course.

[00:05:10] Certainly not fair to the person who's trying to come here legally. But even to the person who's coming here illegally, I mean, you're encouraging lawless behavior. It's always going to result in just horrible things happening. And so that's one.

[00:05:24] I thought President Biden put someone in charge of the border. I thought the vice president, I thought Kamala Harris was in charge of the border. Doesn't she have some great solutions to this? And she's been working and we've been waiting, what now, three and a half years?

[00:05:41] And we're going to hear what. So I mean, I think it's a real issue. It's a real issue. And I think, I mean, Kelly's right. I mean, everything I see is, and we're going to talk about the economy, but I mean, this is right there with it.

[00:05:59] And in a lot of polls, it's actually number one. And certainly for people who live like we do in a state that is a border state, it's a real issue because it is. It's drugs. It's human smuggling. It is the impact. And that's a real impact.

[00:06:18] And I think, you know, and this is one, I think that Governor Abbott has attempted to do something. But I mean, look, his hands are tied for a large part because securing our border is the job of the national government.

[00:06:34] And I get the argument that if the national government won't do it, then the state government should. But I mean, you can't even give Biden a grade on this because I don't know what's below an F.

[00:06:46] Because I mean, this is like, you know, the kid who's taking a test and is getting like a 5% out of 100, right? Because I mean, it is so woefully inadequate. It's just, and whatever they're trying to, I mean, this latest attempt, I agree with the Congressman McCaul.

[00:07:03] I mean, it's so, falls so short of doing anything. And I even read from some of the more liberal people like Julian Castro and others that just say, you know, here the president missed an opportunity to bring the nation together.

[00:07:16] Of course, not that we were expecting that to be the case. And so there is a sort of fatalism when it comes to that particular issue. So I thought I'd mention that.

[00:07:25] And since we're going to a break, let me just, in case you're not familiar with this, recognize that these are individuals that weren't just here, part of what's called ISIS-K, which I don't know what the difference is between ISIS and ISIS-K, but anyway, and they are from Tajikistan.

[00:07:41] And of course, that's like 90 plus percent Muslim. But it wasn't that they were just here maybe going out on the streets with some of these college students wanting to say pro-Hamas. They were actually found with an arsenal of weapons, loaded guns, nine loaded magazines,

[00:07:57] New York Police Department gear, including body arming knives, handcuffs, blowtorch. They also had a Metropolitan Transportation Authority vest. What were they planning? And so that's probably something very similar to what actually took place in Russia.

[00:08:13] And so again, that is why when we talk about the fact that this is not just illegal and unconstitutional, immoral, it is also dangerous. And so I want to get to that as well. Well, Kelly made a very good point. And inflation is the other big issue.

[00:08:32] Former President Donald Trump met with 80 CEOs, and a lot of those individuals, like Jamie Dimon and Tim Cook and a few others, talked about what he said. And I think if you want to turn the economy around, we'll talk about what that might do

[00:08:47] right after these important messages. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. A few decades ago, Americans were increasingly concerned about privacy. Back then, we did several radio programs on the topic. But now many of our privacy concerns have faded. Mark Zuckerberg put this in perspective.

[00:09:16] He said that when he got to his dorm room in Harvard, the question many students asked was, why would I want to put any information on the Internet at all? Why would I want to have a website?

[00:09:25] He then went on to acknowledge that people, especially his generation, became more comfortable with sharing information online. In his book, Why Privacy Matters, Neil Richards writes about some of the myths that surround privacy concerns. One myth is that privacy is about hiding dark secrets.

[00:09:42] We hear the argument, if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. But that doesn't mean we would want to have everyone seeing everything. We wear clothes out of modesty. We don't want videos of what we do in a bathroom or a bedroom.

[00:09:54] Another myth is that privacy isn't about creepiness. He provides lots of examples of privacy invasions we would not tolerate. Yet we have the famous comment by Google's Eric Schmidt that I've mentioned in previous commentaries.

[00:10:06] He explained that Google's policy is to get right up to that creepy line and not cross it. Another myth is that privacy isn't primarily about control. We're sure that we can make informed choices about the amount of information a technology company can use.

[00:10:21] But do we really read all the words in a privacy notice? One famous study from more than a decade ago estimated that if we were to quickly read the privacy policies of every website we encounter, it would take 75 full working days to read them all.

[00:10:36] So privacy concerns still exist and we need to focus on them in the future. I'm Kirby Anderson and that's my point of view. Go deeper on topics like you just heard by visiting pointofview.net. That's pointofview.net. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth.

[00:11:03] Once again if you'd like to join the conversation 1-800-351-1212. We of course have in studio with us today Kelly Shackelford, Jeff Mateer and one of the articles is a very good piece that just sort of summarizes some of the things that

[00:11:16] former President Donald Trump said in front of a number of leaders. And we're talking about the head of JP Morgan Chase, Jimmy Dimon. We're talking about Apple Inc., Tim Cook. You know well kind of a who's who of people in the business world.

[00:11:33] And I think there's some wisdom in that as we talk about election 2024 because Donald Trump made it very clear eight years ago these are Supreme Court justices and judges I might pick. And by putting that all on the table people knew what probably they could expect from him.

[00:11:50] I want to come to you now Jeff in some respects by laying out the fact that he does not want to do what Joe Biden would actually call for and that is to actually raise tax receipts

[00:12:01] by another $5 trillion over 10 years and actually wants to eliminate taxes on worker tips, lower the corporate tax rate. He's really put down a marker and making it very clear between this is what this administration has been doing for three and a half years.

[00:12:20] This is what I did in four years and what I do in the next four years and I think that's wise strategy don't you think? Yeah I think it's excellent.

[00:12:26] I mean I think one thing that if you were running the Trump campaign there are a lot of good issues to run on. I mean we just talked about immigration, the other one judges. Certainly President Trump demonstrated during his four years on those two issues he was strong.

[00:12:41] The other one that he demonstrated that he was really good on is the economy. Look I go back to the Reagan campaigns of 88-84 and I would tell the Trump people the

[00:12:50] question to ask and have as a voter I would encourage voters ask are you better off than you were four years ago? And I mean look I'd like to know who answers that and says oh yeah I'm better off than

[00:13:03] I was four years ago economically because we know it's a disaster. I mean when we go this weekend to go get gas are we better off than we were four years ago?

[00:13:13] When we go to the grocery store and get milk and bread are we better off than we were four years ago? So I think this is a huge winning issue for President Trump and I don't know the Biden

[00:13:26] team even has a response to it but I think being and again it's Reagan-esque and of course I love Ronald Reagan and I think this is where Trump and his economic advisors are sort of

[00:13:36] it's Reagan tax cuts lower I'm getting excited again tax cuts reduce spending and one thing he hasn't said and of course you Kelly's never I don't think heard me say this here but you

[00:13:49] know I'm a big proponent of trying to balance the budget and I actually do believe that you can have tax cuts you can reduce spending yes and start to reduce the budget and I

[00:13:57] think I think they need to have that discipline I think it starts with a balanced budget amendment and I you know and we've talked about all these all these workers all these federal

[00:14:07] workers you know who are sitting around doing minimal work and we know when they work from home and COVID demonstrated this I mean we can I think I mean some of these buildings

[00:14:19] are empty that's what is so amazing to me yeah I mean I yes and we don't need to refill them we need to if they're not there then they shouldn't have their job but but and

[00:14:29] I think these are winning that these are winning issues for President Trump across the board absolutely and you know I think of what President Trump is going to be able to say which is something you don't ever want to have said about you if you're the other

[00:14:43] opponent is he's about to raise your taxes yeah I mean that's what this is when you let the tax bill that passed and became law and everybody is paying under now and you reduce

[00:14:57] you just take it out you let it go away everybody's taxes are going up and so and they say all the time well if you if you make under so-and-so hundred thousand dollars but it's not true

[00:15:09] every time they look at the number of the tax center looks at it goes no everybody's taxes are going up that is not a son you know especially when you're in an inflation you

[00:15:18] know economy where people are already you know maybe their their buying power is maybe you know 20% less than it was before he took office but I also think on the positive side one of the things that the Trump administration did that people often talked about but nobody

[00:15:39] really did it but I think it probably had more of an impact and the reason the economy just took off was the reduction of regulations he had that deal where he said for every one

[00:15:52] that's added he would take I think he said promised 12 off the books and at one point they were averaging 21 boy you take regulations especially off of small business because big business can you know it's a way to get their competition out and they can use all their

[00:16:11] power and money to buy people on compliance with all these things but for small businesses boy it you take those regulations off where they can go and fly free it's amazing what happens in the economy and that's what we saw I think that's one of those things that

[00:16:27] you don't talk about a lot that can that might be the biggest thing that would happen with regard to the economy let me just mention that this article at the very beginning course talks about what Donald Trump said at this business meeting but there was also a meeting

[00:16:44] that of course Joe Biden had at the business roundtable in Washington DC and this is what he said Donald Trump couldn't run a lemonade stand let alone our country he's a fraud a crook and a failed businessman and president who left America an economic ruin the response

[00:16:59] well from that was that he missed the fact that Donald Trump built a multi-billion dollar business and that inflation was are you ready for this 1.4 percent when he left office and less than two weeks matter of fact two weeks from yesterday is the first presidential debate

[00:17:17] and you were saying basically Jeff I don't know how Biden's going to respond to that we have one statement and that is he couldn't run a lemonade stand I don't think anybody's

[00:17:26] going to buy that but how are you going to respond in less than two weeks to some of these economic factors that are not looking very good for the average American person yeah

[00:17:36] you're going to lie I mean that's all he can do I mean I don't think he can he has his record is indefensible and I'm not even sure he has the ability to defend his record

[00:17:48] right I mean I mean is there any to see him I mean it's going to be it's kind of going to be the greatest watched event you know since what the last episode of mash I don't

[00:18:02] know whatever but I can't imagine Thursday June 27th and I don't I don't be in a room with Donald Trump and they're going to be having at it you know and I said this and

[00:18:13] throw this you guys are too too smart guys I'll throw this theory out that I said last week with with with dr. Matthews is I think I mean why are they debating that why is Joe

[00:18:23] Biden debating in June before the Democrat Convention I think there are people who are wanting him to debate because they want him to crash and and that if he does I mean if

[00:18:35] he and they'll come out that he was ill that he has I mean though though they'll give them some gracious way out but I really believe in law and the fact that they're showing I

[00:18:46] mean that they let him go to Norman if they know really he's deteriorated which it which there's a lot of evidence right now then you know they put him out there at D-Day everybody

[00:18:57] whole country sees it he's at the g7 I mean he's completely lost and then they're going to put him on a debate stage with Donald Trump who will say everything that we're thinking Donald Trump will actually say yeah because he just doesn't care which is why he's Donald

[00:19:15] Trump right and so I really my theory is that they're setting up to remove them yeah yeah I there are so many things to watch in this thing number one I agree with Jeff when I

[00:19:25] saw them set this before the Democratic I don't remember somebody go back through his I don't remember ever happened oh no I can't imagine it ever and so that's obvious they're doing that for the ability to make a switch at the convention you know I think that one

[00:19:45] of the fascinating things to watch about Biden is you know the theory is they're giving him Adderall or something so that he can you know kind of go out of his dementia and into and

[00:19:55] they're members of Congress asking what are you juicing him with those are the kind of statements being made now which you've never heard but the problem is when they give him

[00:20:03] that or whatever it is that's happening he gets he gets sort of to be the mean old aggressive guy that's what he was the State of the Union that that press conference when the DOJ came

[00:20:15] out and said they were going to charge him because he was incompetent and so for him it's kind of like two bad choices and then the other thing is for Trump though I think

[00:20:27] Trump has really benefited by not being on the public stage in a real clear way I think if he gets in there and you got a Biden who looks kind of comatose and he got Trump just beating up on

[00:20:40] him I think it might remind some people they don't like Trump so I think I think it was all kinds of stuff in this where maybe either side would go I don't know if I want this to be because there's

[00:20:53] a lot of downside for everybody so it it will be something to watch and I do think it's suspicious that they did it right before the Democratic Convention I just think they should show the

[00:21:02] inner of the debates that to Ronald Reagan did you know well there you go again and it just all he needs to do is say a few things like that that's just not true you know you can say that all day

[00:21:12] and some of that mean restrain himself is that what you're saying just at least show him how other presidents have done it would it work I think we're all skeptical but let's take a break we have

[00:21:23] a lot more to cover we'll do that right after this 18th century London two towering historical figures did battle not with guns and bombs but words and ideas London was home to Karl Marx the father of communism and legendary Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon London was in many

[00:21:49] ways the center of the world economically militarily and intellectually Marx sought to destroy religion the family and everything the Bible supports Spurgeon stood against him warning of socialism's dangers Spurgeon understood Christianity is not just religious truth it

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[00:23:16] free to do so 1-800-351-1212 you got something to write with I'm going to suggest a couple of websites and resources some of which we've posted some we have not one that we will be talking

[00:23:27] about is the whole issue of voter turnout now the reason I have this particular article by Sean Fleetwood is first of all it cycles back to the conversation we had yesterday with pastor

[00:23:39] Jones who was of course talking about the fact that as a church we have to of course think through how to vote and how to assess things and how to have good discernment in this contentious election

[00:23:52] season but there's another part of that and that is that there is growing evidence that there are a real problem especially for individuals that tend to be Christian or pro-life or conservative

[00:24:05] in terms of turnout and so this is an article to remind us of some of those dangers and reminds us that a very important case illustration happened in the 6th congressional district in Ohio now we

[00:24:19] have listeners up there in the Buckeye State and again the Republican won but only by 9.4 points in a particular area where we oftentimes call it plus 30 and what do we mean by that means that

[00:24:33] usually the Republican wins by 30 points as a matter of fact in the previous election the former Republican was a Bill Johnson I think it was there won by 30 points Donald Trump won in that district

[00:24:45] by 30 points so yes this individual won but when you lose in a sense by 20 points and it's a lot closer than it needs to be or you look at some of these other particular cases that are documented

[00:25:01] there turnout is important as important as this these polls right now are saying some things are going in the right direction polls do not elect people turnout does and Kelly I might just now

[00:25:13] tell people to go to one website which I think is going to be very helpful and that is first liberty dot org slash elections or you can go to first liberty live calm and you will go and see

[00:25:27] something that's a very helpful an interview that you did for about 20 minutes on that and I think we at point of view and you at first liberty are going to put more and more material

[00:25:36] together so that people can make informed decisions about the candidates and the policies right that first liberty dot org slash elections we're gonna be adding things to it basically you know a lot

[00:25:48] of churches are confused they don't know what they can do with regard to the elections and so law is really clear pretty much everything a church would want to do they can do but we lay all that out

[00:25:57] for them and that way you could get that and take it to your pastor your church and and so that's that's one thing but also just I think people of faith just haven't really thought about this very

[00:26:11] much and so we just did some real simple things like why should a Christian vote and there's lots of different reasons and sort of connections to make with people one of them and and what you

[00:26:25] don't want is this this and this is really foolish but this is really common with a lot of Christians is well I don't like either the candidates so I'm not gonna vote well it doesn't really matter

[00:26:36] whether you like the candidates it's a matter of what do you think they're gonna do and because that really affects you and your kids and your grandkids and so you know it's it's it's easy to

[00:26:49] find those things and to make those connections I mean just one issue for a presidential race or for a US Senate is they appoint judge judges and justices that are gonna be in the court for life

[00:27:01] it's a lifetime appointment so you're literally going to be setting the future for maybe the next 20 to 30 years and that makes a big difference on not one issue a lot of issues right not just

[00:27:16] sanctity of life but religious freedom to property rights to you I mean you name it right it's a long list I mean we were talking about Supreme Court cases today there's a huge case coming down

[00:27:27] probably in about two weeks that I predict will be one of the biggest reductions in power of bureaucrats yes Chevron different yeah maybe maybe in our lifetime mm-hmm yeah certainly in a long time and so if you're a person who thinks well these these agencies these federal agencies

[00:27:49] have way too much power when they could come and like criminally charge some guy for damming up a pond in his own yard there's a problem and that's what happens you know and of course EPA and all the

[00:28:02] people who do oil and gas and all these things that they do that are way outside their authority all those things are going to be pared back and that power which is in the hand of unelected

[00:28:13] bureaucrats is going to shift to citizens and businesses and now that but that's just one so when you start thinking about all these things that's a pretty big issue is who would you put

[00:28:27] on the Supreme Court who would you put on the other court what kind of judges and I think all the candidates I mean Trump did this the very first time he ran and he did it again the second

[00:28:38] time but we'll see if he does at this time but I think it's a great thing for people running for those offices to say what you know and people don't like to do it I think because they don't

[00:28:48] like to put them out there because people will target and go you're gonna put that person on the court but I think it's transparency it's a big issue and of course that's just the beginning

[00:28:59] I mean there are a lot of other issues but I just I just think a lot of times people think about the wrong things or like who do I like and it really really that is just completely irrelevant it's

[00:29:11] what will they do who will they surround themselves with because those people will be the ones doing the policy and that's not just judges that's like all their you know cabinets and everything

[00:29:24] else so it's something that Christians need to there needs to be a lot where there used to be election sermons for extra every election right back in our founding I mean that would used to

[00:29:33] be a common thing and I just think pastors are really missing the mark here there's I'm not saying they should tell people who to vote for but they sure should help people think because

[00:29:43] you know the job of the pastor really is to equip the Saints to figure out how to represent Christ in every area of society as a husband as a wife as a business leader and as a citizen and not voting is

[00:30:01] is not an option for a Christian I think it's sin God gave this incredible gift to us to steward and if we walk away from and I really feel like we're kind of spitting in the face of God and

[00:30:15] people gave their lives for these freedoms that our children and grandchildren are dependent upon us to be faithful with yeah I can't I can't really I can't disagree with anything Kelly said it I think

[00:30:28] he was channeling Andrew Kaya is Andrew Kuiper right it's Kuiper the Dutch the Dutch theologian every square inch of this earth is the Lord's including our politics which is absolutely true

[00:30:43] I do think I mean the first we're gonna find out who he picks his vice president I assume that's gonna come fairly soon I would think in advance of the convention he'll let us know and when he

[00:30:59] was running originally I think that the Mike Pence choice was excellent at the time because he did a Christian what known Christian evangelical governor so I think that that choice by Trump will tell us something but regardless of that I mean what's unique is because you have you

[00:31:19] have to two individuals running who both have records and and and it's not about it's so often it's you know what am I going to do what am I going to do and you have promises and they're

[00:31:30] often very empty promises and and but this we have two records to compare we can look at the four years of Donald Trump and we can compare them to the four years of Joe Biden and I think

[00:31:44] that's as followers of Christ that's what we need to do and and it look it's hard I mean there are lots of things that that Donald Trump has done and said that just just I hurt when I hear some of

[00:31:57] those things but then I think about the things that Joe Biden nobody says but what he's done and what he's done you know in in our world and religious liberty I mean I you know I thought

[00:32:11] Obama was was was the worst president on restricting religious liberty well his former vice president has outdone him what Joe Biden has done with regard to religious liberty and you know a

[00:32:23] lot of the discussions that we've been having about judges and about laws and and and cases we wouldn't be having those discussions if if Donald Trump hadn't put good men and women on the court

[00:32:37] starting at the US Supreme Court but as we know it you know in the circuits in the Fifth Circuit and the Sixth Circuit I mean and I can can continue and then the district courts and so those are real

[00:32:49] differences and we know the men and women Trump put on and we can compare them to the men and women who Biden has put on and no comparisons no no comparison so we have objective things to look

[00:33:05] at I might just mention too that Kelly has said it and I've said it many times that personnel is policy does anybody seriously think that Joe Biden's running the government so it's the people

[00:33:16] behind him and does anybody think even if Donald Trump is elected reelected again he's gonna only be able to do so much it's who they're going to surround them with and I think that is really key

[00:33:28] and when we come back from the break it is interesting because we have a number of Republican senators are saying you know we're not really interested in actually moving forward many of these nominees simply because of lawfare that's been used against the president so we might talk

[00:33:44] about what that looks like in the future right after these important messages population policy received heavy scrutiny recently at the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development Julia Elena Kazan reported on the meeting which

[00:34:06] was held at UN headquarters in New York she wrote government's voice concerns that low fertility rates are threatening their societies with anemic economic growth labor shortages fiscal insolvency and other social problems but the UN population establishment insists it's not a problem

[00:34:23] Ms. Kazan says population bureaucrats when confronted with these concerns try to cast low fertility in a positive light the UN has been able to convince some countries that population

[00:34:34] decline is a good thing and something to be pursued but most are not buying it and are instead in a panic over steep declines in their population Stefano Gennarini vice president for legal studies

[00:34:46] at the Center for Family and Human Rights points out more and more countries are awakening to the imminent threat of low fertility and aging in all society according to Mr. Gennarini currently sexual and reproductive health is the number one item on the global health agenda no other issue

[00:35:02] receives more funding but as countries suffer the harsh consequences of dwindling populations and foresee worse down the road they are questioning and scrutinizing the UN's promotion of population control including reproductive health i.e abortion western governments including the U.S.

[00:35:20] constantly insist that sexual and reproductive rights become international human rights they attempt to exclude language in UN agreements that protects the sovereign right of countries to decide questions of abortion and the provision of transgender affirming care on their own

[00:35:35] international pressure on governments is only one of many factors causing the decline in fertility rates and population worldwide these declines in population signal we should abolish the UN's population control apparatus for point of view I'm Penna Dexter you're listening to Point of View

[00:35:58] your listener supported source for truth. Becker a few more minutes let me just mention that for those of you that listen online you probably heard Penna Dexter's commentary we play it at the quarter to the top of the hour both hours and it's called population control pushback

[00:36:12] and again as I've been pointing out so many times common sense just breaking out all over the place and certainly that is the case it always is amazing to me we have a booklet coming out in

[00:36:22] the future on globalism that I've written and at one point I even have a sentence that's similar to what Penna has in here at a time when the populations is declining in most of these developed countries that's when they're asking for more population control does that even make

[00:36:38] any sense well people are starting to rethink that and that is her commentary if you'd like to read it today also one we haven't gotten to but it's a very good piece by Jason Isaac fossil fuels the

[00:36:48] best kept secret in our world today and I might talk about it again next week because the environmental issues will probably be important as well but one of the reasons I want to bring this up is you have

[00:36:59] 44 different nominees put forward by President Joe Biden and they're awaiting senate confirmation and Kelly you mentioned just a minute ago don't just pay attention to who the president is I think

[00:37:11] some people say I can't vote for either of those well don't skip because you have a senate race probably 34 U.S. senators are going to be elected one way or another and they're really important

[00:37:23] and it turns out that because of the administration's use of lawfare against Donald Trump you've got a number of senators from Ohio and Utah and Tennessee and Alabama Kansas and Missouri that are simply said you know what we're just going to block these nominees now whether you

[00:37:38] think they should do so or not it brings us back Kelly to the fact that sometimes we only look at who the president is but you just illustrated a few minutes ago who your senator is is going

[00:37:49] to determine whether or not we'll pass a world health organization treaty whether we're going to appoint judges and justices to the supreme court they oftentimes are a place where good legislation in the house goes to die so really we need to pay attention to who the senators are

[00:38:05] don't we absolutely and I mean take the judges as one example you know a lot of you got people who are more strong conservative that have been very disappointed with some of the decisions of

[00:38:23] an Amy Coney Barrett or a Justice Kavanaugh well you know what they forget is when President Trump was appointing and making that choice he had a senate that was 51 to 49 Republican and that 51 included you know Senator Collins Murkowski Flake so he couldn't exactly put Clarence Thomas as his

[00:38:54] appointment somebody like that yeah so the election not only is who controls the senate and most people expect the Republicans will get this in because of the way the numbers are

[00:39:06] this time there's a lot more Democrats that are in play this time but it's not just who wins whether it's Democrat or Republicans but what is the cushion right I mean if there is for instance

[00:39:20] a President Trump and he has not 51 but like 54 senators or something now he's got room where he can go with a Clarence Thomas or an Alito type appointment so that's number one number two the

[00:39:34] other thing that you ask about that I think triggers this lawfare thing I do think it's really important I like that the senators are speaking about this I think it's going to be

[00:39:47] the American people that are going to save us if we're saved but this idea of you know having a prosecutor somewhere and they're all over the country deciding that what we're going to start doing now is criminally prosecute whoever your political opponent is if that's not rejected by

[00:40:05] the American people then get ready for it all the time and we're really done as a country I think so far what we're seeing is that this doesn't work the American people don't like it

[00:40:17] and so I'm hopeful so I like what the senators are doing here and saying if you're going to do this kind of thing which is an abuse of our system then we're just going to shut down things for you

[00:40:30] I think that we have got to make sure that the rule of law is kept and we cannot allow the politicization of the justice system the number three guy at the DOJ leaving to go work in a

[00:40:43] that's where it's going to go yeah in a city DA office oh come on you know to go after the opponent of the president he worked under this this shouldn't happen in the United States and again

[00:40:55] if the American people reject this stuff which I do I'm hopeful they will then hopefully we won't see this again you know one of the questions that I always like to ask to make Jeff Mateer's head

[00:41:07] explode is what if we had Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court because we have found out that this attorney general has now been held in contempt of court because he failed to comply with a

[00:41:19] subpoena and we just talked about his number three guy leaves the Justice Department to go and help Alvin Bragg prosecute Donald Trump and if you say well that's very unusual then I'd like to say names like I don't know Peter Navarro Steve Bannon the list is getting pretty

[00:41:38] long of individuals that are either in jail or going to jail or let's take another individual that's actually having to file bankruptcy Rudy Giuliani and a lot of that does look like lawfare

[00:41:49] to me it does and uh you know I mean no one would have thought that actually about Merrick Garland and certainly what what what the country was sold was that he was you know a moderate can you imagine

[00:42:00] he was on the court now well I mean I mean based upon again the actions speak louder than his words I mean based upon his actions he's hard left and I think the DOJ just announced earlier today that

[00:42:12] that that surprisingly they're not going to prosecute Garland Merrick Merrick Garland for you know violating the the the requests of Congress which in itself I mean think about and so you have a juror you you have there's no there's a claiming executive privilege over Biden's

[00:42:32] interview over decision not not to prosecute which they release tapes but they redact the tapes but they won't tell Congress what they redacted and so the American public we don't know why they won't prosecute Joe Biden but they are prosecuting Donald Trump yes for an alleged

[00:42:54] similar crime I mean it it I mean just this this this topic so troubles me because my my my my knee-jerk reaction is that we shouldn't on our side retaliate again you know two wrongs don't

[00:43:13] make a right correct but at the same time I mean it's got to stop yeah you gotta figure out some how to make it yeah I mean and do I trust the Democrats that they will stop ever and I mean

[00:43:26] it reminds me as that we're some South American country where when you lose an election when you lose you also get prosecuted yeah and I don't want us to be that country but that's what the

[00:43:39] Democrats have caused with these frivolous actions against against Donald Trump I do think there's a couple of ideas long term I think we need to come up with some sort of criminal action if you

[00:43:51] politicize the system of justice by that I mean criminal yeah because that's just so serious um we had to think through how to craft it but I do think that would be something that would be

[00:44:02] important the other thing though is I think we need a law in this country from Congress that says any citizen who is either prosecuted or sued by the federal government or even state should have

[00:44:19] a right to recover their attorney's fees once it's over because what happens is they go after a lot of these people who are being punished right now it's because they didn't have the power the tax

[00:44:30] money is used to persecute them and then even when they win they've still all of their money is gone everything is gone that should come out of the budget of those people who brought the prosecution

[00:44:41] wish we had more time but uh first of all I want you to enjoy your weekend and Jeff I think we'll have you back next week and I know Penn is going to be with us and I know where Kelly is but he'll

[00:44:50] tell us when he gets back into town and we have some other great opportunities next week including millennial roundtable so go to pointofview.net you might go to firstliberty.org slash elections and most importantly I want to thank Megan for help engineering the program Steve thank you for

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