Point of View June 23, 2026 – Hour 2 : Tuesday’s Top Stories

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View, Anderson. Second hour, we're going to spend some time now talking about a variety of issues in the news. But just as a program note, let me just mention that Richard Lim will be with us tomorrow, also William Federer.

[00:00:31] Later on, we'll have Robert Knight and I think we'll get into some of the very important aspects of, again, America 250 and what is happening in our culture. But as I said yesterday, all it takes is the election of one more democratic socialist and everybody is writing about democratic socialism. If you go to our material from yesterday, we've posted two articles about the issue of democratic socialist in America.

[00:00:57] We have two articles today and then I'm going to move on to some other topics because this isn't the only issue, but it's become a very significant issue. And what is so interesting is my first article is from Noah Rothman, in which he's actually quoting from John Fund, who's been on the program as well. And to be honest, I probably will sometime, maybe on Friday, since we'll have Dr. Merrill Matthews with us and he and John Fund are good friends, maybe post John Fund's article about this.

[00:01:25] But here, Noah Rothman says, John Fund's timely warning about the march of democratic socialist to America's electoral institution should not be missed. And so we will probably post that for the Friday program.

[00:01:39] So you can read it in its entirety, because John Fund, who again has been with us many times before and has written about a lot of articles and has been with the Wall Street Journal, National Review and others, is a forecast in which the democratic socialist of America become a full fledged urban political machine.

[00:02:00] And that is that they are going from being maybe on the periphery to maybe a political machine, maybe even the dominant part of the Democratic Party. As we've said before, this is not your father's Democratic Party at all. And I think you're going to start to see more and more of that. This picture, of course, shows Joe Ron Mamdani. But yesterday I pointed out that he's not just content to be elected the mayor of New York.

[00:02:27] Of course, we have a mayor in Seattle and we will have a mayor in the District of Columbia. But he also is working to elect other democratic socialist candidates. And that would be in addition to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and people like Bernie Sanders. So what was so interesting is this particular piece says trouble in the democratic socialist paradise.

[00:02:50] And the trouble with socialism, if I can paraphrase Margaret Thatcher, is that the trouble with socialism is you end up running out of other people's money. And that is certainly the case. Because this article talks about the fact that the New York Times identified one of those bumps on Sunday. In his quest to conquer the Democratic Party, New York City's most famous socialist, that would be Mayor Zoran Mamdani, still has work to do, according to the paper.

[00:03:18] Without Mamdani on the ballot, early voting in the New York primary has featured an electric that is trending towards being smaller and older. When he's not there, there aren't as many young people who might be more inclined to vote differently. And if you think about this, as he points out, the platform for the democratic socialist of America emphasizes the expansion of what you might call collectivist social programs.

[00:03:48] A reduced reliance on law enforcement, you know, actually defund the police. Maybe even reduced reliance on the federal government, which, as I pointed out yesterday, is sort of going to happen. Because when you have a federal government that is, can you even say it now, $40 trillion in debt, national debt,

[00:04:12] and you also have a Republican in the White House, how much federal money do you think is going to be making their way to New York City? Well, I think you know where the answer to that is. And then the other part of the platform is also being very critical of the nation of Israel. I will come back to that in just a minute. But that has been something that's been sort of parse and parcel of all of this.

[00:04:35] So they point out that the socialist candidate in Washington, D.C., won her primary last week. And we relied on this very coalition of what was at the time called younger white residents who lived in Washington less than 10 years. And those are not the people that are part of the general electorate.

[00:04:59] And so in some respects, you're going to see that that isn't working so well in terms of electoral politics. And so in his own primary election for the New York City, one of those difficulties he faced even then was Zoran Mamdani did well with, of course, the white upper class and the younger.

[00:05:20] But he struggled when he was looking at some of the districts that were dominated by poor people in New York City or predominantly black people in New York City. So some of those coalitions that in the past have been able to rush the Democratic Socialists into power aren't necessarily stable coalitions. And they aren't necessarily always representative of the electorate by and large.

[00:05:49] But you might be at this point saying, well, what are you going to do at point of view about this? Well, we have been doing that for some time. So let me, for those of you watching online, say that I'm holding up my booklet that we came out many years ago. This is actually hard to believe seven years old, but it's a biblical point of view on capitalism and socialism.

[00:06:10] We still have copies of that, but we also will be covering some of this on our next Outlook articles in the future because democratic socialism is a big issue. But this one primarily was how to, if you will, defend the idea of a free market, how to defend private property and the market mechanisms and some of that. And then also acknowledge some of the legitimate criticisms of capitalism because we don't really have pure capitalism. We sometimes have crony capitalism.

[00:06:40] So that book came out a number of years ago. More recently, this booklet I hold up here is a biblical point of view on socialism. This one was really an attempt, if we could, to begin to talk about all the problems with socialism, not the least of which is we're talking about a batting record that's like 0 for 24. That is, you can look at at least two dozen different countries in which socialism has tried and they've all failed.

[00:07:09] And so that, I think, gives you some very good answers. And then it just occurred to me about last year that we should have at least another book on socialism. And I thought, I know, why don't we talk about one of the best books ever to critique socialism? And that is a book by Friedrich Hayek, who wrote the book The Road to Serfdom. Now, I recognize most people don't know who Friedrich Hayek is, although I have a link to a YouTube video that gives you a nice update.

[00:07:36] But I recognize most people are not going to read the book The Road to Socialism and The Road to Serfdom. When they hear Friedrich Hayek, they probably think he's Selma Hayek's father, but he's not. And so, again, these are some of the books. Of course, we've posted some great videos and other commentaries that John Stossel has done and others have done. We've done interviews with Jay Richards. There's a lot that we've done in the past, but more that we will be doing in the future.

[00:08:05] And so, as we go to a break, let me just mention one of the things that I've talked about before. We're just a week away from the end of our fiscal year. And it is very important for us to begin to end June 30th in the black. And if you can help us out financially, you can go and scroll down to a place that says Restoring America's Godly Heritage. There's a red button there.

[00:08:30] You can click on that, and it gives you some justification for what we're trying to do, not only when we are challenging socialism, but teaching about America's godly heritage. And there's a place where you can give. And I can announce today that we already have a match. So it's a dollar-for-dollar match. Your gift will be doubled if you go to the website, pointofview.net. We'll be right back.

[00:09:00] This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. C.S. Lewis and the Great Divorce describes a bus trip that people in hell take to heaven. They are given the opportunity to live in paradise, but decide instead to get back on the bus and return to hell because they are convinced that the sins they have committed and the wrongs they have done are justified.

[00:09:22] Now, his novel is an allegory, but it illustrates a present reality that so many in our society today won't admit their failures and take some accountability. Jeff Minnick writes about lessons of accountability in an age of excuses. He describes the famous fable of four people. There was an important job to be done, and everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but nobody did.

[00:09:46] Somebody got angry about the fact that because everybody's job, everybody thought anybody could do it, but nobody realized that everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that everybody blamed somebody that nobody did what anybody could have done. The current examples of no accountability are numerous. Politicians and educators still won't admit that the pandemic lockdowns damaged the education of millions of schoolchildren, ruined thousands of businesses, and dramatically increased rates of anxiety and depression.

[00:10:15] Add to that the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, the massive government expenditures by both Republicans and Democrats, and all the growing evidence of widespread fraud at the state and national level. There have been examples of men and women in history who made themselves accountable. President Harry Truman, for example, was known for a plaque on his desk in the Oval Office that simply stated, The buck stops here. We need to return to a culture of accountability. I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my point of view.

[00:10:49] 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. Back once again, let me just mention that our second article today is by Andy Kistler, which has the interesting title, Live Free and Prosper. And the reason he says this is because, as he says,

[00:11:17] socialists claim that we haven't experienced American prosperity. All they have to do is look around. And I think this is, in some respects, related very much to the conversation we had last hour with Cindy Brinker Simmons. And that is one of the ways to appreciate what God is doing in your life, one way to appreciate America, one way to even appreciate your own life, is to maybe show a level of gratitude. And I think it has been striking for us to see so many people that have come here from Europe,

[00:11:47] from Africa, from Asia, from South America, and have just been marveling at America. Have you noticed that some of the foreigners seem to be more excited about America than Americans? And in some respects, this is why this piece by Andy Kistler, I think, is so helpful,

[00:12:04] because he points out that there is maybe a jaded view that many of the leaders in the Democratic Socialist platform and party are engaging in. He starts out by reminding us that Senator Bernie Sanders wants to confiscate or tax, he says, 50% of the stock of artificial intelligence companies, the dumbest idea, he says, since Karl Marx picked up a pen.

[00:12:33] And, of course, you have all sorts of people, including even the president, suggesting this. And when we have done a more recent issue on AI, and I'll hold that up for those of you that maybe have not seen that, we only talked about, of course, some of the social and cultural and even technological issues. There are some economic issues that we need to get into in the future. But the point is, is that he then quotes from Alexandria Ocaso-Cortez,

[00:13:00] who said that her generation came of age and we never saw American prosperity. And, again, her actual quote is, I have never seen that or experienced it really in my adult life. Well, Andy Kistler, he won't put up with this, says, really, she must be distracted with only five years to go on her climate mongering, because now he just goes through some of the incredible breakthroughs that have taken place.

[00:13:30] And we are enjoying a level of prosperity that is unprecedented in the history of culture. And then to have people complain that they haven't experienced American prosperity, let me for just a minute, and I don't mean to sound like Pollyanna here, but to say that we really do need to count our blessings. One of the examples he uses is because of the free market, the capitalism thing that you're against, you know, we have what is called Verve 102.

[00:13:59] I'd say, what is that? Well, it relates to the using gene editing therapy, which now is a drug that lowers LDL, which is your bad cholesterol, by almost two-thirds. Could this be a heart attack vaccine? And this is the kind of thing that is produced by a prosperous society. By the way, as you might imagine, we do have a biblical view on genetic engineering, which we've made available as well,

[00:14:26] because that is something else that we would want to look at from a biblical point of view. But he says, you know, speaking of this idea of gene editing, let's go to Columbia University, where they've been able to do what's called base editing of early human embryos to replace certain genetic letters. Now, again, the concern is that they might want to genetically engineer the new race, but that's not what we're doing right now. What we're trying to do is, for example,

[00:14:55] eliminate, identify and eliminate various kinds of debilitating diseases. The example he uses is hereditary blindness. Well, this is nothing short of amazing. The fact is that we can treat and cure various genetic diseases. We have about 1,600 different genetic diseases. He didn't talk about that, but I do in the booklet that we've made available. And this is just, again, this wonder age that we find ourselves living in.

[00:15:24] Well, then he talks about GLP-1, which, of course, has been used for weight loss, but it also is very helpful for teaching and treating people that are diabetics. But it also, it turns out, now we're starting to see some other ways in which you could help with stroke, kidney, fatty liver diseases, might even help with issues like sleep apnea. Research is underway to even figure out how to maybe treat substance abuse, psychiatric disorders,

[00:15:54] even neurodegenerative orders and things of that nature. So, again, we're talking about really on the cusp, on the golden age, as even the other day Elon Musk was talking about just in terms of space travel. We're taking the word fiction out of science fiction, and that is certainly the case. Genetic engineering alone has turned science fiction into science fact. Well, let's leave the science area, which is certainly one area of my expertise,

[00:16:23] into another area, put myself through a graduate school programming computers. But I must admit, that's a whole lot easier now, because he says, as someone who used to write code, this is Andy Kessler, I'm astounded by the ability simply to talk to some AI bot like Claude, which probably is the best for writing programs, which spits out pretty decent software. And so, again,

[00:16:48] we have the potential of computers actually writing programs for other computers, or even for their own computer, in ways that are remarkable. We have, on our latest issue of Outlook, talked about some of the concerns of AI. We'll get to that in just a minute. But let's point out that Palantir tapped AI to lower the early death rates from sepsis in a Tampa general hospital by more than two-thirds. And again,

[00:17:17] you have all sorts of possibilities now of reducing the mortality rate, even inside a hospital. So you would think that would be well received. Oh, not at all. He points out that there were protests that broke out in the UK the other day between those who were upset that there was a tie between the National Health Service and Palantir over the company's ties to Israel. Yes, well, there's where Israel surfaces again.

[00:17:46] He also talks about some others. Active noise canceling has gotten good enough to muffle airplane noise. Also there to muffle human voices in offices. And he says, look, Gen Z might be the first generation that wouldn't necessarily have to own cars thanks to Uber, self-driving vehicles, and maybe they'll turn their garages into man caves or influencer studios. He talks about, again, AI bots, like them or not, and we recognize there's some concerns,

[00:18:15] are being perfected as personal AI coaches, encouragers, even therapists to deal with issues ranging from anxiety to depression. And again, if you want to get off all the science stuff and say, well, what's going on politically? Oh, I don't know. We'll talk about that in our fourth segment today. But he talks about the fact that freedom looks like it may be coming to Cuba. Who would have seen? I'm old enough to remember when we always assumed

[00:18:43] that communism would reign in Cuba. And after 70 years, it could be that we are going to have a free Cuba. Of course, I can also talk about what's going on in Venezuela, but he doesn't mention that. And he says, the biggest problem here is progressives have a relative prosperity problem, envy. They see somebody that might eventually be worth a trillion dollars, which doesn't mean that, by the way, Elon Musk has a trillion dollars in the bank.

[00:19:12] This is the stock valuation of SpaceX, which I suspect is going to go down, but we'll talk about that in another one. But if nothing else, he says, to enjoy prosperity, you have to participate in prosperity. And so, if nothing else, he's saying, why can't you just live free and prosper and recognize that we are in, in some respects, this golden age of technology, in this golden age of freedom,

[00:19:41] and yet you would think that the world is as bad as it ever was during the dark ages or even during the worst times of the Industrial Revolution. But that's not the case. Well, just before I take a break, I did send out an email to some of you, and I shared a bit of wisdom that I learned when I was growing up in California. My governor there was Ronald Reagan. As a matter of fact, I have an autograph from Governor Ronald Reagan when my father ran for the California Assembly.

[00:20:10] And in his inaugural address, he says, freedom is a fragile thing, and it's never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by way of inheritance. It must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. And so again, we recognize that to preserve freedom, we must recover our moral character. We also, in order to preserve freedom, need to be educating people

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[00:23:07] do not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station. And now, here again, is Kirby Anderson. You know, one of the functions of Point of View sometimes is to cover stories that the mainstream press does not cover. And that is one that I'm going to now focus on. It is our third article for you to read in its entirety. And it relates very much to my commentary today which is on the issue of accountability. So I'll come back to my commentary in just a minute.

[00:23:37] But this came from Miranda Devine. And it is just a, if you will, good summary of what Tulsi Gabbard did on her final day as Director of National Intelligence. And what she did was release all sorts of classified evidence. She declassified it. And this is, if you will, as it's described, damning, declassified evidence accusing Dr. Anthony Fauci of causing

[00:24:06] the COVID-19 pandemic, of engaging in a cover-up of the virus's origin in China and lying to Congress about it. Now, why am I covering that? Because no mainstream press covered it. It is, I think, very significant. And it's something that most of us intuitively knew at the time. Okay, let's fast forward, or I should say let's go back and then we'll fast forward to where we are today. Let's go back

[00:24:35] to when we first heard about this being an epidemic breaking out first in China and then in the United States. We were doing broadcast here. I was sitting in this chair. I remember at the time hearing that maybe it came from a wet market and yet it didn't add up even at the time. And as time went on, we said, wait a minute, there is only one facility in all of China that has this level of security and it's the Wuhan

[00:25:04] Institute for Virology and to suggest that this came from a wet market rather than from a lab leak from a lab which even at the time people knew indeed had problems with a lab leak was enough to suggest that that's where it came from. And yet we had people and that's when we started talking but basically people lying and misrepresenting it and I can remember and if you go through

[00:25:33] my list of commentaries during that period of time I filed commentary after commentary pulling from some of the facts and figures some of the biologics that they were able to develop the lack of finding any infected animals to suggest that indeed that was the case. Over time we learned a lot more and that is that we actually had funded this whole area of research and as a result that was the case. So nevertheless

[00:26:02] after Tulsi Gabbard released all of this evidence on the last day that she served as Director of National Intelligence well as Miranda Devine points out right on cue two days after the bombshell release on Sunday the Washington Post ran a 9,000 word hit piece on Tulsi Gabbard. Now of course you see that when it's coming and interesting enough not only did they not cover it but no other mainstream press covered this information that was out there. Now here's the issue

[00:26:32] she points out that the same news organizations that helped cover up the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic now overwhelmingly believe they came from a leak in the China's Wuhan Institute of Virology but are still refusing to come clean which gets to my piece on accountability which I'll talk about in just a minute. Meanwhile Miranda Devine says Anthony Fauci now 85 receives a handsome government pension holds a prestigious role as distinguished

[00:27:02] university professor at Georgetown University one of my alma martyrs and is showered with rich awards for defending science but we also know now from this declassified information that he had a close relationship with the intelligence community which in some respects prevented the kindest scrutiny that he deserved this article goes on to say that Anthony Fauci was the behind-the-scenes advisor who alongside his hand-picked so-called

[00:27:31] experts pushed the intelligence community to endorse a natural animal origin to hide his dangerous gain-of-function research that he funded using taxpayer dollars if I were to go over to my office around the corner you can see a book written by Senator Rand Paul that documents some of this but now we have even more information from these declassified documents but you could put the pieces together a long time ago

[00:28:01] and of course Republican Senator Rand Paul has even talked about again some kind of referrals that need to go to the Department of Justice because indeed Senator Rand Paul insists that the so-called 11-year blanket pardon that President Joe Biden gave to Anthony Fauci in his last minutes of his last day should be and could be challenged in court both because

[00:28:31] it was signed with an auto pen and because of its rare retrospective nature one of the things we learned at the time is there was another person that was pushing this idea that it was not a lab leak and that came from an individual at EcoHealth Alliance Peter Dracic and of course this article goes into some of his connection as well and interestingly enough this is where Miranda Devine gets involved because she said back in August 2021 I was told

[00:29:00] by a former employee of EcoHealth which again is the organization of Peter Dracic who requested an enemy that Dracic had been approached by the CIA in late 2015 to help access the Wuhan lab which was believed to be a Chinese military operation so again if the intelligence community she says knew about the dangerous gain of function research on bat coronavirus in Wuhan did it know about the evidence of a potential leak as

[00:29:30] early as August 2019 and the answer is probably but we'll maybe not know that for sure we also know that the Harvard Medical School published aerial images captured of the private satellites of the five Wuhan hospitals suggesting that there was a health crisis at the time in which they compared the traffic and parking law volume to the same period in 2018

[00:29:59] and then the steep increase in 2019 which again shows a little bit more well we could go on but I think the statement that came from the current secretary of health and human services that would be Robert F. Kennedy jr. is where he said that this particular lab leak and pandemic is among the most consequential crimes in human history the most consequential

[00:30:29] crimes in human history and these secrets are now coming out but you might say just too many years too late we knew it at the time and this of course is the great concern which brings me to my commentary today my commentary is about the issue of accountability I open with a quote from C.S. Lewis you might remember in his book The Great Divorce there is a bus trip that people in hell take to

[00:30:58] heaven and they're given the opportunity now to live in paradise but they decide to get back on the bus and return to hell because they're convinced that the sins they've committed and the wrongs they have done are justified we use that as an illustration to say that even though the novel is an allegory it I think represents only so well where people are convinced that what they did was blameless and as a result we don't necessarily keep people

[00:31:28] accountable has anybody gone to jail has anybody even suffered through this pandemic and lockdown are the people that made all sorts of blanket statements most of which turned out not to be true have they actually been even willing to acknowledge that they made a mistake and when you think about this as I pointed out in my commentary and I didn't know this information was coming out today because I record my commentaries

[00:31:58] as Megan knows days ahead of time but I used as one of the examples of accountability that isn't happening politicians and educators won't admit that the pandemic lockdowns damaged the education of millions of school children ruined thousands of businesses and dramatically increased rates of depression and anxiety of course they didn't also talk about the fact that we have the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan massive government expenditures which have gotten us

[00:32:28] now to 40 trillion dollars in national debt and neither republicans or democrats seem to even apologize for that and there is I think a need for accountability so I end with a story that maybe we need to revisit that is the story of president Harry Truman he is well known for having a plaque on his desk in the oval office that simply stated the buck stops here

[00:32:57] and I think we need to return to a culture of accountability so if you'd like to read my commentary it's on the website it is again heard on about 600 radio stations many networks but also if you'd like to learn a little bit more about what was in these declassified documents that came out from the release by Tulsi Gabbert and the way we thanked her was the Washington Post ran a 9000 word hit piece against her two days later you can

[00:33:27] see that still nobody wants to take accountability we'll hold them accountable even if they won't hold themselves accountable that's something we'll do here on Point of View and a story you probably won't hear if you go to the mainstream press but you heard it right here on Point of View

[00:33:58] you're listening to Point of View your listener supported source for truth back for a few more minutes one of the articles here by Roger Kimball is the solstice of our discontent I thought it would be worth mentioning that the solstice just happened the other day that is June 21st and for our listeners in Alaska I thought I'd mention what you know but most Americans don't and that is that they play the midnight sun baseball game on

[00:34:28] June 21st they play it right there in the memorial park I think it's hosted by the Alaska gold panthers if I remember right and so they start the game at 10 p.m. and then they play it till midnight without lights because 24 hour daylight there in Fairbanks and so for our listeners up there in Fairbanks we are well aware of the Alaska than it does in other parts of the country

[00:34:57] but nevertheless all of us in the northern hemisphere have more light and Roger Kimball uses this idea of the solstice of our discontent to talk about light because he says I don't know when I first learned this but I found out that actually it takes eight minutes from the light from the sun to make it to the earth the sun's light has to travel and again if you are interested in astronomy and we've had day four individuals on this program before

[00:35:27] talking about this it takes it has to travel 93 million miles so it takes about I guess the actual number is 8.3 minutes so if the sun went out right now you wouldn't know it for another eight minutes and the point he's making after then talking about light coming from various galaxies and everything else which is fascinating material is in some respects that's what is happening there are some things that are happening now and eventually the light is going to hit it is interesting

[00:35:57] that one of the ways in which Cindy Brinker's book is described is bringing light to darkness in some respects when you turn on electric light it takes a while for the light to actually begin to light the room up but it is in the world of electricity pretty instantaneous but if you travel far enough away it takes a while for light to get there and he's using that as a great illustration because he talks

[00:36:27] about the big bang and some of those big bangs happen to Nicolas Maduro that bang happened in Caracas and as a result Venezuela is very different than that's a bang that went off in Tehran and I think he says it is illustrative of the fact that what we need to understand is we're in the summer solstice kind of the halfway

[00:36:57] point of the year many things are year opened with Operation Absolute Resolve the stunning military operation he says that simultaneously extracted Nicolas Maduro from his

[00:37:26] fortified palace in Caracas opened up Venezuelan oil to the U.S. and denied terrorist groups from Hamas to China to Iran a safe haven in Venezuela he says we're already feeling some of the benefits of that operation but its full significance like the distant starlight takes months or years to become fully manifested just as we're waiting for the light to come say from the Orion nebula or the

[00:37:57] Andromeda galaxy it's going to take a while so that's his first illustration in the same way then we of course have Operation Epic Fury in some 30 days Trump destroyed Iran's Navy its Air Force its Air Defense Network huge swaths of its drone and ballistic missile stockpile and most of its military industrial infrastructure he also eliminated Iran's top leadership twice over beginning with its supreme leader Ayatollah

[00:38:27] Khamenei and and incinerated the moments of the war Trump and then Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessett then mounted what a concerted economic assault on Iran depriving the regime of some 500 million dollars a day partly in lost oil revenue partly through Scott Bessett's pursuit of the leadership's foreign accounts and if you've been looking at that it has become very significant

[00:38:57] in terms of the declining economic value of the Iranian currency the market and the whole economy that has become very significant and so again one of the things that Roger Kimball says is sort of like that light coming from distant galaxies the news hasn't filtered through the anti Trump scrims that surround the legacy media for them destroying Iran's military

[00:39:26] capability and eliminating its leadership counts as capitulation that is a prominent meme in the bizarre of anti Trump static he says regarding the memorandum of understanding which we talked about on Friday and memorandum of understanding he said with some exasperation and if

[00:39:56] I don't like it we'll go back to shooting him and dropping bombs on their head vintage Trump of course in the same way he says the fact that Trump has been a better friend to Israel than any previous used president is suddenly recast as a betrayal of Israel that's something we've been hearing as a drumbeat but what he said in one

[00:40:28] post he listed 40 odd things that Trump has done in his five and a half years as president that benefit Israel in another post he began by noting that President Trump has not flipped or abandoned Israel still shows his support for the Jewish state and the Jewish people now he says there are two points one Trump's exclusion of Israel from the memorandum of understanding was not as some claimed a slight to Israel

[00:40:57] but rather a gift that gives Israel a free hand to protect its vital national security interest in Lebanon Syria and even Iran second while admitting that there are aspects of the memorandum of understanding that he doesn't like Zell also insisted that Trump is dealing with the political reality of an impending election you think that is certainly the case matter of fact we'll be talking about that on Thursday with Robert Knight because he

[00:41:27] points out that the ayatollahs and the imams and some of those leaders in Iran know that the clock is ticking but if nothing else Zell says that Trump has decided that winning in November the midterms and preventing the Democrats from taking control of Congress is of paramount importance given the certainty that if this were to happen the opposition will seek to impeach him and derail his administration's foreign and

[00:41:57] domestic policies for the balance of his second term the point positives that and the people are about in terms of technology in terms of freedom in Cuba or whether

[00:42:27] it's the freedom that we are seeing in places like Venezuela and a remarkable change that has taken place in the Middle East well that's all we have for today let me once again point you to the website pointofview.net you can find all four of those articles there you can find out more about Cindy story in America's godly heritage because we do have a match on the table your gift of $100 becomes $200

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