Point of View June 25, 2024 – Hour 2 : Today’s Headlines and Important Issues

[00:00:00] Just mentioned as a program note that tomorrow we'll have in studio with us Penna Dexter, just had of course Lathan Watts later in the week, Robert Knight and Chuck Bentley. But I thought it would be very important for us to spend a

[00:00:33] moment or two talking with our good friend Jenna Weidler. She is the Vice President of Stewardship for Point of View. She joins us now by phone from Colorado Springs. And Jenna, I think you have some questions for our listeners.

[00:00:46] Oh, hi Kirby. It is so good to be on the show today. We are in our fiscal year-end fundraiser week and some of the questions that are asked for our listeners, let me talk directly to you right now.

[00:01:02] Do you want to hear truth from Christians who are experts in their fields? And do you believe our nation needs to apply a biblical worldview to issues we face? And do you want to get Christian values back in our culture?

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[00:02:21] announced today that we have the match of 73,500 and I want to say that because of your work and Warren Kelly and others, we have that amount on the table. But again that comes from listeners who certainly appreciate this ministry and

[00:02:37] want to challenge others to actually say yes to the things you just asked a minute ago. Yes, absolutely. I have reached out to quite a few people in the last week or so asking them to pitch in for this matching challenge that

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[00:03:10] dollar that is on that table for the matching challenge this week. So again, Jen, I know that I'm probably going to call on you again, but I'm excited that today we have Lath and Watts, tomorrow we have Pentadexter and we are covering

[00:03:23] all sorts of very important issues, but because of what you do behind the scenes and we're trying to get you more in front of people, this is an opportunity for people to get to know you and to support this ministry. So

[00:03:34] thank you for all that you do. Oh, my pleasure, Kirby. Thank you. It's such an honor and a privilege to be a part of Point of View. I just mentioned if you notice that as you're looking at your phone and it's ringing and it says

[00:03:48] Jana's calling, you might pick up that phone and chat with her. I know she would love to pray with you and most importantly if you want to help with us bringing us to the final few days of this fiscal year so we end in the black

[00:04:02] and can move on ahead, I would greatly appreciate that. Again, we mentioned the number but it's worth writing down if you haven't done it, 1-800-347-5151 1-800-347-5151. If by chance you would rather just go on the

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[00:04:35] That's a different number. I'll give it in just a minute because I'd love to get your thoughts. Two years ago we were somewhat surprised, maybe not as much because it had been released ahead of time, that the Supreme Court was going to

[00:04:48] overturn Roe v. Wade. One of the articles I have here reminds us from the editors of the Wall Street Journal that this, although it's supposed to be and will be a very significant campaign issue, was also supposed to be one that

[00:05:06] was going to lead to a tremendous amount of political frenzy. It was going to usher in kind of a handmaidens tale dystopia and all the rest. And of course we've had some conservative states that have restricted many or most abortions.

[00:05:21] Other liberal states have become sanctuaries. And more importantly, the argument was simply made that it wasn't the responsibility of the Supreme Court to make that decision. And I love what they say here. This decision returned the

[00:05:37] issue of abortion policy to the states and to the voters. That, they say, was a correct matter of constitutional interpretation. And even, and I underscore even, liberal jurists and even some justices acknowledge that this decision

[00:05:55] of Roe v. Wade back in 1973 was one of the High Court's worst decisions. Now instead of thinking we have it all taken care of, actually it has created even a greater opportunity and a real challenge. If you take seriously the numbers that

[00:06:13] have been collected by the Guttmacher Institute, and I have no reason necessarily to question them. I know that a lot of social statistics are a little bit fuzzy, but they estimated that the number of abortions in America was

[00:06:28] still around a million. And that is certainly of concern, especially when we recognize that more and more of this isn't really even necessarily always happening in an abortion clinic, but it's happening because of the abortion pill.

[00:06:42] And so we kind of ended some of the discussion with Latham Watts talking about the case that went to the Supreme Court, which in that particular case said that these individuals did not have standing, which I think frankly was a way

[00:06:55] of the court to avoid a decision that it wasn't ready to make. But if you wanted to understand the significance of this election, recognizing that there are probably, and this even comes from President Biden, an estimate that

[00:07:12] probably in round numbers two or three Supreme Court justices will be appointed by the next President of the United States. And if that's Joe Biden, I think you have a pretty good idea of what that looks like. And of course we already

[00:07:27] have the three Supreme Court justices that were appointed by Donald Trump. Whether you like who the President is or not, that is perhaps one of the most significant decisions that a President will make. And so the Presidential

[00:07:43] election will in many cases determine what happens on all sorts of issues we talk about here on Point of View, including additional decisions like things like the abortion pill. And that is going to be not only predicated by

[00:07:57] who the President is, but also by who the United States Senators are. There is a lot of evidence to suggest that if you had more Republican Senators, then you would have individuals that would be certainly more conservative, more pro-

[00:08:15] life. But if you have a very split or even Democratic controlled Senate, you're going to get very different kind of justices if you have a Republican President. Of course you know what would happen if you have a Democratic

[00:08:28] President. So these are important topics and I would love to open up the phones in case you have some comments about the decision two years ago on Dobbs. That number is different than the one I've just given. It's 800-351-1212 if you'd

[00:08:43] like to join our conversation today on air. Got some other comments before we move on right after this. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. When the Southern Baptist Convention met a few weeks ago, the messengers adopted a resolution about in vitro fertilization known as IVF. While it is

[00:09:13] unusual for the nation's largest Protestant denomination to debate medical ethics, they felt a need to respond to the recent ruling by the Alabama Supreme Court on IVF. The mainstream press reported this as an attempt to condemn the practice. The actual statement was to reaffirm the

[00:09:29] unconditional value and the right to life of every human being and ask that doctors only utilize reproductive technologies consistent with that affirmation. When I wrote my book about genetic engineering in the 1980s, I started to hear from infertile women, the modern-day Hannah's, wondering about

[00:09:47] the ethics of IVF. If you're interested, you might want to obtain a copy of my recent booklet, A Biblical View on Genetic Engineering. Let me also point to the work by Dr. Jim Dennison who has been on my radio program. He has an

[00:10:00] excellent white paper on When Does Life Begin? Frozen Embryos, IVF, and the Sanctity of Life. He is the theologian in residence for the Baptist General Convention of Texas and serves as resident scholar for ethics with Baylor,

[00:10:13] Scott, and White Health. He reminds us that at the moment of fertilization, the embryo possesses the chromosomal makeup of a distinct human being with all the inheritable factors and we also know that all persons are equal in their right

[00:10:27] to life. This perspective would therefore call for the careful and moral application of IVF. The Southern Baptist Convention resolution is not radical, but based on sound biblical and medical information. I'm Kirby Anderson and

[00:10:41] that's my point of view. For a free copy of Kirby's booklet, A Biblical View on Inflation, go to viewpoints.info.com. That's viewpoints.info.com. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Back once again if you'd like to join the conversation 1-800-351-1212.

[00:11:09] And let me just make a couple other comments. One of course was that this issue of abortion is not going away. If you are convinced that it needs to be addressed in a more systemic way, there are various ways in which some of these

[00:11:25] kinds of decisions could come down that would emphasize life. And of course you've had one case in which the standing on the abortion pill was rejected, which I think tells me that there will be another case as Lathan

[00:11:39] Watts was mentioning. And I think ultimately as I've said so often and even as I was recently in Michigan talking with some pro-life people up there, we need to do a better job of communicating this idea of life. So

[00:11:54] certainly the presidential election is going to really hinge I think in part on abortion simply because President Biden wants it to be an issue. And I'll give you some comments from Gary Bauer that came out just yesterday in that

[00:12:08] regard. Number two, I also pointed out that you're going to also have to pay attention to who your U.S. Senators are and we will be certainly educating you about where these individuals stand because very soon we'll be rolling out

[00:12:24] kind of our election central here on Point of View. I got a look at it yesterday before we've had it go live and this will be very helpful to you as some of you still have primaries, although most of those have faded, and

[00:12:38] certainly as we think about the general election. And you may actually know where your president stands on the issue of abortion and on many other issues where even your senator does. But I wanted to make one other comment that's also in

[00:12:52] this very good article by the editors of the Wall Street Journal, that is you need to pay attention to who are running for your state legislature because we have a couple of examples that they talk about. First of all, they say that you

[00:13:08] have had votes in Kansas, Ohio and Michigan in which there were votes on referendums to either keep or to add abortion restrictions in their constitutions. Now these have been driven in large part by becoming single issues and have in many cases been somewhat discouraging to pro-life

[00:13:31] individuals. But again you can see that some of those are motivated as they point out by Democrats because even the Ohio initiative won counties that President Trump carried in 2020 with 60% or more of the vote. So that is of

[00:13:49] course one of those big issues and for those of you that live in the state of Florida let me talk about you for just a minute because it is I think instructive on what could happen in other parts of the world, other parts of

[00:14:03] the country and that is the legislature in Florida which has the Republican control banned most abortions after six weeks. So what has happened now is Democrats have responded by actually wanting to make that vote a centerpiece

[00:14:21] of the campaign in November. What that would do is actually put on the ballot a constitutional amendment that goes even further than Roe versus Wade as we've seen in some of these other states which says no law shall prohibit

[00:14:38] penalize delay or restrict abortion before viability when necessary to protect the patient's health as determined by the patient's health care provider. Now in order to amend the Constitution in the state of Florida takes 60 votes, 60% I should say, 60% of the voters and a recent poll shows the

[00:15:01] amendment might have as much as 69% support. So again you can see that whenever this issue is allowed to be considered you need to begin to pay attention not only to who is the president, who is running for Senate, who

[00:15:20] is going to be in your state legislature but in this particular case even what constitutional amendment is on the ballot. There's good evidence to point to the fact that oftentimes these are written in such a way as to be just

[00:15:34] ambiguous enough to cause people to think well I want to have that as a protection even though I'm not necessarily pro-abortion and the kind of communication and messaging really needs to be done effectively so that is

[00:15:49] certainly the case. But let's if we can step back for just a minute recognizing that we're going to be having a presidential debate in two days and Gary Bauer points out that when it comes to this debate it is pretty obvious now that

[00:16:06] the Biden campaign and even the Biden administration is what he says doubling down on the issue of abortion. And the point that Gary Bauer makes in yesterday's end-of-day report is quote young women in any urban area are more

[00:16:22] afraid for their safety than at any point in their lives. Men are taking over women's sports teams, men are coming to their bathrooms and locker rooms, men are demanding they be treated like women because they say they're women. Young

[00:16:36] Jewish women can't walk safely across a university campus in America today and most young Americans the idea of owning a home is laughable because Bidenomics is a bust and Bidenflation is busting budgets. So what he says is President Joe

[00:16:55] Biden will try his best to keep the American people focused on abortion but right now most Americans top concerns are the economy, inflation and illegal immigration. And of course we've talked about that before and it's just a great

[00:17:12] illustration of exactly some of the big issues before us but even as we talk about this issue of abortion I point out in my commentary today that the Southern Baptist Convention met a couple of weeks ago and when you have the

[00:17:28] largest Protestant denomination talking about the issue of in vitro fertilization you have again the problem with the fact that the media has done a poor job maybe intentionally of miscommunicating this idea because most of the mainstream press has actually, obviously most of the people in the

[00:17:50] mainstream press would not be considered pro-life have attempted to simply say that this was a condemnation of the practice whereas the actual statement and I give it to you there in the piece says that the Southern Baptist voted to

[00:18:06] reaffirm the unconditional value and right to life of every human being and asked that doctors would then only utilize reproductive technologies consistent with that affirmation and I even recount that when I first wrote a

[00:18:21] book on genetic engineering back in the 1980s I was able to hear from a lot of infertile women who were asking about what about this idea of in vitro fertilization. I refer to them as kind of the modern-day Hannah's you might

[00:18:35] remember Hannah and the Old Testament who was infertile and began to talk about this and give some guidance. I also point you to a good friend of this ministry and that is Dr. Jim Dennison who has actually been on the radio program

[00:18:49] many times before and has a white paper which we have a link to when does life begin frozen embryos in vitro fertilization and the sanctity of life and if you're not familiar with Jim Dennison it's been a while since he's

[00:19:02] been on the program he is the theologian in residence for the Baptist General Convention in Texas and also has served as the resident scholar for ethics with Baylor Scott White Health which of course is a series of hospitals and is

[00:19:18] an expert in this particular area and reminds us that again since the moment of fertilization the embryo possesses the chromosomal makeup of a distinct human being with all the inheritable factors and that all people are equal and we can

[00:19:34] go to of course Psalm 139 and other passages and so really this particular statement by the Southern Baptist Convention is calling for the careful and moral application of in vitro fertilization which springs out from a pro-life idea. So let me again suggest that you can go to the website

[00:19:56] pointofyou.net and find my commentary you can certainly go to this very good piece that came from the editors of the Wall Street Journal on the issue of abortion and a reminder that we need to pay attention not only to who the president

[00:20:10] is not only to who the US senators are not only who you elect to your state legislature but even pay attention to even attempts through constitutional amendment to push through various pro-abortion ideas and so those are the

[00:20:25] kinds of educational resources we want to put in your hands as you are making decisions not only about not only who you're going to vote for but in the case here if you're dealing with infertility personally or dealing with infertility

[00:20:41] in your family or in your church we give you some very good resources that will help you think through that issue. So as we go to a break perfect time for you to say I appreciate all that you are providing to us we have booklets we have

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[00:23:05] not necessarily reflect the views of the management or staff of this station and now here again is Kirby Anderson. Final half hour and if you'd like to join us certainly 1-800-351-1212 is the on-air number and of course I've been

[00:23:21] giving you the one that you can call to make your pledge and I'll give you an update before the end of the program today but I thought we'd look ahead just for a second to see two issues that might surface during the presidential

[00:23:34] debate that some people have done some writing about and one of those is by our good friend Colonel Alan West in which he talks about the future of democracy question mark. Now the reason he brings this up is because you've had all sorts

[00:23:48] of statements being made by the well mostly the mainstream press and by certain Democratic activists and even the president that this election is about the future of democracy as of course we had Lathan Rotz point out just

[00:24:01] a minute ago it's funny they talk about the future of democracy when we're really a republic but okay we'll leave that aside for just a minute and even raises the question why would in this case Fox News present the issue of the

[00:24:14] future of democracy it's almost like it's buying into the narrative and of course he takes on the fact that we're a constitutional republic not a democracy but the point is you're going to hear that bantered around not only in the

[00:24:28] debate Thursday night but for most of the campaign and yet as he points out if there anything that might be threatening the democracy and I put that in quotes since we're republic it could be as he talks about in his fourth

[00:24:43] paragraph something known as illegal immigration he says let's stop kidding ourselves and be honest President Joe Biden or over is running this country he says has enacted a purposeful and intentional undermining of the sovereignty of the Republic there can be no explanation for the willful

[00:25:02] implementation of unconstitutional executive orders to create a US open border who would have believed that in just three and a half years our nation would see an influx of some 10 million illegal immigrants being supported by hard-working American taxpayers this is not just drug trafficking and human and

[00:25:22] sex trafficking and terrorist trafficking it's just a very as he said grand and nefarious scheme so he uses one example there to say that if you want to talk about the threat to democracy how about illegal

[00:25:37] immigration he does then start talking about some of the other things that are actually being taught and exported and imported into exported from other countries and imported into our country a Marxist ideas socialist ideas and all

[00:25:54] the rest and all sorts of other topics but then focuses on one other issue and that is if you really want to talk about another threat to democracy it would be not having a secure election and he points out that Texas for example

[00:26:15] where he lives and for some time was the head of the Texas Republican Party and now he's actually just the head of the Dallas Republican Party but nevertheless you have this particular breakdown on what actually must take place in the

[00:26:31] state of Texas in order to vote he says a form is used to explain why a voter does not have an acceptable form of photo ID when voting it allows eligible voters to cast a regular ballot after signing the declaration the declaration

[00:26:46] is completed and signed at the polling place the voter must present a supporting form of ID such as a utility bill or a bank statement in the purpose is to prevent eligible voters from being disenfranchised due to lack of photo ID

[00:27:02] the point he's making is let's just face it you show up in an airport you have to show photo ID you actually have to do that to buy alcohol to buy certain kinds of medicines certainly to buy a house I mean you go through the list you've

[00:27:19] heard of go through that list time and time again and of course that is the case but still we're told that well some people can't produce a photo ID so he then says there is an alternative and that is certainly a way to cover any of

[00:27:38] the possible concerns about a photo ID but the bigger issue is simply this if you require a photo ID and people know that they have to have a photo ID that is oftentimes all the deterrent you need to prevent an individual to engage in

[00:27:58] voter fraud and so the point he's making is is that we actually even suggested you can use a utility bill and then he brings it back to a conversation we had a couple weeks ago about the fact that we also now have a problem sometimes in

[00:28:16] some states with squatters and you use your utility bill to actually show that that squatter does not have a right but also he points out that the flip side of that is is a squatter could have used a utility bill to secure a vote and so

[00:28:35] when you talk about unsolicited mail-in ballots coming in when you talk about individuals that are here illegally being able to get a photo ID like a license or when you have the possibility that a person could even use a utility

[00:28:53] bill even if they're here illegally and squatting in a home you do have some problems so he recognizes that if you're really concerned about quote the future of democracy election integrity is certainly one issue and certainly immigration is the other issue and yet though people screaming sometimes the

[00:29:15] loudest about this elections about the future of democracy are the ones that are doing seemingly all they can to prevent having secure elections and secure borders so I thought it was a good piece you can read it in its

[00:29:29] entirety goes on for four pages but I wanted you to recognize that that is a topic no doubt that will be brought up one other one that I thought would be interesting is a topic that might be finally set aside and that is that there

[00:29:45] are fact-checkers out there and probably the best known is Snopes now Snopes actually has been a go-to place but many times has actually not been very accurate I've said before there's been a need to fact-check the fact-checkers

[00:30:04] and one of those is the most interesting of all and that is Snopes finally corrects the record on the notorious Donald Trump hoax seven years later now the point I'm making is is that this was wrong when they made the fact check we

[00:30:23] are now since 2017 seven years later finally seen the correction being made really just before this presidential debate and perhaps that's because we know that President Biden has continually said that Donald Trump actually said that the white supremacist the neo-nazis were very fine people he

[00:30:52] said it time and time again and yet the mainstream press oftentimes has failed to correct it I even remember one time which was on a Bill Maher program a very prominent Democrat was corrected about this and he was saying this is the first

[00:31:09] time I've heard it which says a little bit about how sometimes Democrats and people that are very liberal only watch programs that reinforce their values and of course if you have been with us any length of time there's Prager videos

[00:31:24] about this they are all sorts of other fact-checkers that have pointed out that he actually was very critical of those individuals with tiki torches there in Charlottesville Virginia and he was critical of the neo-nazis and white supremacists but later on in a separate statement acknowledge that although I

[00:31:47] condemn those individuals we also had other very fine people the point he was making is some people just didn't want to take down a statue of Robert E. Lee simply because Robert E. Lee fought for the Confederacy he was a very outstanding

[00:32:04] individual by the way was very outstanding at West Point and all sorts of other things and just the removal of the Confederate General Robert E. Lee was not enough to be condemning he says very fine people felt that the statue should

[00:32:21] stay well I've been into this discussion long enough just illustrate the point that this for seven years has been a constant refrain from the President of the United States Joe Biden and I think it was quite possible that they wanted

[00:32:40] to at least get behind this issue and so if Joe Biden brings it up again at the debate you would hope that at least one of the CNN moderators would say Mr. President that's not accurate that's not what the president said and you would

[00:32:54] now even have Snopes agreeing with that but here it took seven years count them seven years since 2017 for the fact-checker to get it right which is again one more admonition for you to have some discernment sometimes we need

[00:33:14] to fact-check the fact-checkers and it eventually came well maybe just in time so that maybe we won't have the president repeat that myth during the debate but we'll see how that unfolds I thought it was interesting that just two

[00:33:30] days before the debate now Snopes finally got it right and you got to appreciate that but it's been seven years that we've been waiting for it and let's take a break come back with some final comments right after this

[00:33:43] you're listening to point of view is for truth for a few more minutes let me just mention that the last article here is by Rebecca Downs and it shows that this new poll really gives us a little bit of an idea about how young people will vote

[00:34:13] we of course have a millennial roundtable and some of our guests around here would actually be not even considered Millennials generation Y but generation Z and it's interesting because first of all they point out that

[00:34:25] if you look at the top line the CBS YouGov poll it shows Donald Trump having an edge over Joe Biden 50 to 49 which is of course within the margin of error but then goes on to say that it really depends on who you're looking at because

[00:34:42] the younger you are maybe it looks like the less likely that you are to vote here are the percentages very interesting because oftentimes young voters tend to vote Democratic as they begin to get income and raise families and other

[00:35:00] things that begin to think wait a minute maybe I don't really like some of those policies that are increasing my taxes and all sorts of other things but again overall registered voters you say 81% say they will definitely vote now again

[00:35:16] we recognize this because they say they will vote doesn't mean they will but among those under the age of 30 are you ready for this that number drops to 66% only two-thirds so from 8 in 10 to two-thirds which is the lowest of any

[00:35:34] demographic 20% say they probably will vote and another percentage say they definitely will not vote now there's some very good reasons for it and we talked about this two years ago if indeed the 2024 election looked anything like the 2020 election that's the case in the poll notes that they're not

[00:35:55] satisfied with the candidates no surprise there the poll actually says or the commentary the for young voters a lot of whom aren't satisfied with the choices they have candidate satisfaction matters more when they aren't satisfied with the candidates they aren't apt to show up 37% of the

[00:36:15] under 30 crowd say they are disappointed with the candidates and the choices they have and of course you've heard that before and I think it is a really significant issue let me also mention that when we talked earlier

[00:36:29] about the issue of abortion that looks like it's going to maybe be significant for the younger voter but not in the way in which maybe Joe Biden thinks it is because the Biden campaign has been trying to argue and I'm sure Thursday

[00:36:46] night President Biden will try to argue that Donald Trump's abortion stance is one that will take rights away from women and yet if you're very been paying attention we talked about this for months now Donald Trump's abortion

[00:37:01] stance is to leave it to the states now does that resonate with the voters apparently it does 45% believe indeed in this poll that Donald Trump will leave abortion lay laws to the states to decide if he's elected and even among

[00:37:20] those under the age of 30 41% so as this commentary by Rebecca downs points out that's bad news for Joe Biden among young voters when registered voters were asked which candidate understands the needs and concerns of young people under

[00:37:37] 30 today a plurality of voters 41% neither of them does with 48% under the age of 30 saying that he does so you can see that there is a general skepticism on the minds and in the hearts of those under the age of 30 but it used to be

[00:37:58] assumed that Democrats could get a larger percentage of the youth vote and would always depend on and be assured of getting a large large percentage of the african-american vote and a significant number of the suburban women vote and all

[00:38:17] the other demographics that are used so often and none of that is playing out at all so we will see how that plays out first in the debate and eventually in November but just before we wind down for today I thought I'd mention real

[00:38:32] quickly something about Julian Assange he has been released in a sense this is news for his wife and children have seen him for years he's been five years in isolation he will make his way back to Australia if you're not familiar with

[00:38:47] him he's the founder of wiki leaks and he came to international attention when wiki leaks published some leaks that came from at that time the US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning and of course you have footage of air

[00:39:01] strikes in Baghdad you have US military logs from Afghanistan and the Iraq wars diplomatic cables and all that he actually has won multiple awards for publishing and journalism but he was also arrested why well he was charged

[00:39:17] with violating the espionage act by making available to the public these documents through wiki leaks and so he's of course been in sort of legal limbo for these many years but as news of him being released came to the fore you can

[00:39:36] go to Twitter James Melville put it this way he wasn't in prison for his own crimes but for exposing the crimes of others that was a good phrase because course he made leak through these leaks made public of the fact that CIA

[00:39:54] actually created ISIS videos showed some of the brutality of the war in Iraq and probably the greatest sin if you will was the release of all of Hillary Clinton's emails remember those back in the campaign Robert F Kennedy jr. said

[00:40:12] that the US security state succeeded in criminalizing journalism and extending their jurisdiction globally to non-us citizens now don't take any of this as my and complete endorsement of Julian Assange for his private life public life

[00:40:30] but it is a reminder that oftentimes when people try to get information out either they were censored or in this case they were charged with the espionage act and if you're not familiar Julian Assange a couple of his quotes probably

[00:40:48] best known the goal is an endless war not a successful one another quote every war has been the result of media lies and I love the one that he said years ago that what's the difference between Mark Zuckerberg and

[00:41:03] me I give private information on corporations to you for free and I'm a villain Mark Zuckerberg gives your private information to corporations for money and he's man of the year and so he really has not been pardoned for these

[00:41:19] but it's a plea deal and of course it is required him to plead guilty to conspiracy with dealing with national defense information but I thought I'd mentioned it because it's just one more illustration of the fact that you would

[00:41:34] hope that we would have a free press and this is just a reminder that sometimes in the past individuals have been censored or cited in other cases great and accurate information has been censored on social media outlets and so

[00:41:51] I thought I'd make just a quick comment about Julian Assange not to endorse everything he said or done but just simply to illustrate again why we need to find good sources of news and information and commentary and I hope

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