Point of View June 30, 2026 – Hour 2 : Tuesday’s Headlines

[00:00:04] Across America, Live, this is Point of View, Kirby Anderson.

[00:00:44] We appreciate those of you that have responded. Again, that number, 800-347-5151. Of course, the website is pointofview.net. Let's get into some of the issues in the news because even though we're coming to the end of the fiscal year, even though it's the end of the Supreme Court, a lot of things will continue on. We'll be broadcasting tomorrow, the day after. By the way, we probably won't be broadcasting. As a matter of fact, I know we won't be broadcasting on Friday.

[00:01:11] That's July 3rd, just because the next day is July 4th. But you will be back, of course, on July 6th on Monday. So, let's get into this. And this piece by Jim Garrity actually came out yesterday, but I thought it was appropriate to focus on today because you might remember we had this conversation for two consecutive Fridays because we had Dr. Merrill Matthews with us both times talking about the Memorandum of Understanding.

[00:01:38] Well, Jim Garrity with the National Review refers to it as the Memorandum of Misunderstanding. And as we suspected, and this shouldn't be a great surprise, it's unfortunate, but it's a reality, you can't trust the Iranian government, you can't trust the Mullahs, you can't trust the Revolutionary Guard. And there were many that were skeptical of this Memorandum of Understanding.

[00:02:04] And he takes you through, and I won't wear you out with all of the examples, but he gives us enough to help us understand that Iran will say something, they'll sign something, and then they'll just go about doing what they wanted to do. He starts on June 20th, and I'll take you through the end of June. That's probably more than enough. And that is on June 20th, the Iranian regime declared the Strait of Hormuz closed

[00:02:32] in response to what they call the continuous violations of ceasefire in Lebanon. Lebanon should never have been linked to it in the first place because Lebanon has nothing to do with Iran, other than the fact that, of course, Iran has been funding the Hezbollah forces there. But, nevertheless, that was their justification on June 20th. Okay, let's go another day ahead or two. June 25th, an Iranian drone struck a Singapore-flagged container ship.

[00:03:01] This is during the so-called ceasefire and the peace accord. June 26th, U.S. aircraft struck Iranian missile and drone storage locations because, again, you had that drone attack. That same day of June 26th, Iran had agreed upon assigning the Memorandum of Understanding the Islamic Republic of Iran will make arrangements using its best efforts for the safe passage of commercial vessels

[00:03:29] with no charge for 60 days only. And so they began to change some of that. And the idea was that we must establish insurance mechanisms so if incidents occur, ships that encounter problems are covered to reduce their risk. And so even there they were changing this idea, well, maybe we couldn't charge a toll, but, you know, we've got insurance costs and all the rest.

[00:03:52] And on that very same day, the government of Oman told European officials there's no way of going back to the pre-war status quo with the Strait of Hormuz and transiting ships that may be charged some kind of fees. Then June 27th, you have a Greek-owned tanker, which is actually registered in Panama, which was hit early in the morning.

[00:04:16] And again, this was something that was being loaded at the time in the terminal at Qatar. Then on that same day, you have the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps saying its naval and airspace forces carried out a joint missile and drone operation targeting what it described at the time of U.S. military sites in Kuwait and Behran.

[00:04:40] And later that day, the U.S. Central Command announced in direct response to the continued Iranian aggression against commercial shipping, U.S. military aircraft targeted, Iranian military surveillance, infrastructure communication systems, air defense sites, drone storage facilities and mine layer kayak abilities. By the way, this is all during supposedly ceasefire and peace accord.

[00:05:06] And then on June 28th, and we'll stop there, you have a news report, Iran has no choice but to obtain a nuclear bomb to remove the military option against the country during the transition to a new world order. So all the statements that were made, all of the assurances that were given, I think we understand only so well,

[00:05:32] you cannot trust the Iranian government, even when you can find an official who represents the Iranian government. And we are not going to actually deploy ground forces. So we recognize that there are just certain limitations in what we can or cannot do in the Middle East. But nevertheless, Jim Gehrady summarizes by saying, look, in the span of a little more than a week,

[00:06:01] the Iranian regime has broken just about every promise it made in the memorandum of understanding. And, of course, you then have the back and forth, which I am concerned about. I tend to believe the vice president more than I believe the Iranians. But, of course, mainstream press doesn't, because on June 22nd, J.D. Vance, vice president,

[00:06:25] said the Iranian assets were unfrozen and that the money was going to go by U.S. corn, wheat and soybeans. The Iranians denied they ever had agreed to that particular statement. We had another particular situation in which there was, according to the vice president, J.D. Vance, establishing what was called a deconfliction cell to establish direct communications between the U.S. and the Iranian military.

[00:06:53] And, again, the following day, the IRGC spokesperson said that this has not happened and it will not happen. So after a while, you get to the point, who do you believe? Well, I tend to believe the vice president more than I believe the Iranians. But I think it illustrates, again, they will say or do just about anything. They'll say what you want to hear and they'll go and do whatever they want to do.

[00:07:21] And as we have said before, Iran has made a mockery of this memorandum of understanding, and it has become a memorandum of misunderstanding. If you would like to see the documentation for that, that's one of the real benefits of supporting Point of View. We post these on our website. You can scroll down to the section that has the title, the various viewpoints, and the material for the particular day.

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[00:08:45] We'll come back with a homework assignment right after this. This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson. Roger Kimball writes about the hyphen and the melting pot.

[00:09:10] It is an interesting article to read for those of us talking about the immigration and assimilation issue. He reminds us that the image of a melting pot comes from a French-born American farmer whose image of an American was one in which individuals of all nations are melted into a new race of men. Eventually, immigrants shed a previous identity to become a new one. Unfortunately, he argues a favorite weapon of multiculturalism is the lowly hyphen.

[00:09:35] Describing oneself as African-American or Mexican-American is not descriptive but deconstructive. Americans in previous generations warned us about this. Frederick Douglass, for example, was critical of such a designation. No one ideal has given rise to more oppression and persecution towards colored people of this country than which makes Africa, not America, their home. President Teddy Roosevelt warned about this in his autobiography.

[00:09:59] He said the one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin would be to permit it to become a tangled squabbling of nationalities. He then went on to warn of the destructive vogue of hyphenated Americans. The pattern of assimilation was clearly described by Justice Louis Brandeis in 1915. Americanization, he said, means that an immigrant adopts the clothes, the manners, and the customs generally prevailing here, substitutes for his mother tongue the English language,

[00:10:26] and comes into complete harmony with our ideals and aspirations and cooperates with us for their attainment. The story is very different today. We no longer require immigrants to learn the language and history of this country, and during this 250th anniversary, we should remember the wise words of Americans in previous generations. I'm Kirby Anderson, and that's my point of view. Go deeper on topics like you just heard by visiting pointofview.net.

[00:10:55] That's pointofview.net. You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Back once again, we're going to spend some time, first of all, talking about socialism a little bit later. Colonel Allen West has given us a homework assignment. It's a pretty simple one, but I think you'll appreciate that. But first of all, we've got some articles that I would point you to, and a lot of them have to do with the issue of socialism. I'll hold up again our booklets that we've produced over the years,

[00:11:25] and even here I have the February issue of Outlook for those of you that are following along. We even have some simple tests for socialism in the piece by socialism that Dinesh D'Souza talks about. We talk about all the different socialist experiments that have failed and on and on. The one I want to point you to right now on our website, I just simply called it Progressives and Socialism,

[00:11:51] although the real title by Alicia Finley is Why Being Progressive Is No Longer Enough on the Left. And I might just say, don't you think that we are going to probably be talking about this for some time, because tomorrow, I've already posted the articles that we'll talk about tomorrow, have a piece by Victor Davis Hanson on the New Socialist. So if you find yourself saying, I am really concerned about what's unfolding before our very eyes,

[00:12:18] those are the kinds of things that we want to react to quickly here on Point of View. And as we have mentioned before, your support makes that possible. We've actually surpassed $70,000, but again, there's still room for you to call at 800-347-5151. But Alicia Finley puts it this way, writing for the Wall Street Journal, that while people across Latin America revolt against leftist governments and are electing free market leaders,

[00:12:48] by the way, notice the irony of all this, young urban progressives in the U.S. seek to stage a socialist revolution with the goal of taking over the Democratic Party. By the way, this has become a concern for many of the leaders in the Democratic Party, whether it's Hakeem Jeffries or Chuck Schumer, or even people that are no longer leaders but were at some time. There are some that have actually started saying,

[00:13:15] you have these different candidates who were endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Nine of the ten won primaries either for the state legislature or Congress. There's another good piece out by John Fund about what's going on in Colorado right now. And all insurgent mayor, all those that were actually, I should say, backed by the insurgent mayor, Zoran Mamdani, those prevailed.

[00:13:44] And I think for a minute this article helps you understand how much more radical they are. Because let's take a good example. The other day I mentioned the one in the 10th congressional district, but they opened first with the one of the 7th congressional district. And the individual, actually backed by Mayor Zoran Mamdani, is Claire Valdez.

[00:14:09] And she defeated the president of the Brooklyn Borough, Antonio Reynoso, who, interestingly enough, had the support of the attorney general, Leticia James, had the support of the city council members, even the union-led Working Families Party. He was an individual that you might remember backed Medicare for All. That's Bernie Sanders' particular area.

[00:14:38] Called for the abolishing of immigration and customs enforcement. In other words, wanted to call for the abolition of ICE. And he even favored a wealth tax, which in some respects was even broader, and maybe even, as they said, more punitive than the one Bernie Sanders proposed on billionaires.

[00:15:00] So, if you want to talk about somebody who had the leftist creed, or street cred, if you want to put it that way, in the Democratic Party, he had it. And yet, interestingly enough, he actually also agreed with Zoran Mamdani in terms of some of the concerns that they raised about Israel and genocide, the word they use all the time.

[00:15:27] But here's where he got himself in trouble, if you will, because he said, you know, maybe we should tone down maybe some of the anti-Semitism we're seeing in this city. Well, that provided an opportunity to say, he's so leftist and so progressive, but Claire Valdez is even more so. And so, you are now starting to see individuals that are so far to the left,

[00:15:56] there hardly seems to be any room any further to the left of those individuals. But, nevertheless, this was an opportunity for her to jump in and talk about globalizing the Intifada. Some of the people that supported her were waving Hamas flags, Hezbollah flags, and the rest.

[00:16:19] And so, the only real difference, if you will, is she just differed with him on the degree of militancy. She's worked in Columbia University's Visual Arts Department, and has served as a union organizer and all the rest. But that, interestingly enough, was just enough for her to defeat an individual who has been in Congress for many years,

[00:16:44] and is very far to the left, but found some position to be even more radical, more leftist, more of a democratic socialist than him. Now, the other one, of course, you might mention, we've mentioned before, Avalia Sauvalier, who was in the 10th Congressional District, and I can't even say on the air some of the things she's posted, but think of swear words.

[00:17:10] She also referred to Joe Biden as a war criminal, which he found out the other day when he spoke. Did you see that when he was speaking in Bood in Delaware and the rest? And so, the bottom line is, is that the question that Alicia Finley is asking is, why is this happening? And she says, well, recent college graduates inculcated in Marxism have grown disenchanted with the flaccid democratic establishment.

[00:17:38] They were attracted to Zoran Mamdani and those surrounding him. For the same reason, she says, Republicans were drawn to Donald Trump in 2016. They're tired of mealy-mouthed politicians and want somebody who fights. And so, as a result, then she goes in to talk about some others. Hassan Piker, who we've mentioned before, who has, of course, made quite a living out of decrying the United States,

[00:18:03] capitalism and videos and YouTube and Amazon's Twitch and all the rest. But they point out that if you look at all these individuals running right now, and they have Los Angeles mayor, first congressional district there in Colorado, the Senate seat in Michigan. Besides Marxist ideologies, she says, one thing many of them have in common is many of them are children of immigrants. And so, regardless of their background, they all graduated from college.

[00:18:32] Some obtain multiple degrees. They have assimilated all too well to the culture of academia and the big cities. And they, in a sense, exemplify what is happening. You know, my commentary today is about assimilation. But we're talking about assimilating into American society. Many of these individuals, unfortunately, have assimilated into leftist politics on major universities.

[00:19:01] And that is one of the reasons why I'll hold it up again. The reason we produce these booklets on socialism, capitalism, the road to serfdom. That's why we are producing and will continue to produce the Outlook magazine. The one this month actually is Understanding America's Christian Heritage. We need to get this information out. And if you indeed believe that that is something that we need to do, we almost need a relearning of America. We need a re-education of America.

[00:19:31] We need to come back, as we mentioned with Josh Barnes, to have some conservative ideas to concern some of the things in the past that made America great. At a time when we're seeing more and more young people actually calling for a socialist revolution. I don't know how I can make the case any stronger for the need to support Point of View or any other organization that is fighting for faith, family, and freedom.

[00:19:59] So as we go to the break, let's again see if we can hear from some of you. We're kind of whittling away what's left of our match. So if you would want to still take advantage of that, you can give us a call. That number is 800-347-5151. 1-800-347-5151. And when we come back, I do want to maybe give you a homework assignment. This comes from our good friend Colonel Allen West.

[00:20:29] Because he says, you know, it would be good for all of us to read the Declaration of Independence. One of the things we've been making available is this copy of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Still making that available to you. And he also gives us a little bit of a history lesson, which was news to me. So again, we want to educate all of us. And I learned some things by reading his piece. And then we'll talk about America's universal aspiration.

[00:20:55] All of which, again, remind us that as we're coming closer to the July 4th, this opportunity to once again celebrate 250 years, but to learn from our history and apply it as we're going forward. So again, one last time, give us a call. 800-347-5151. Go to the website. Find the section, which again is entitled, Restored America's Godly Heritage. Click on that button that says Give Now.

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[00:23:16] Final half hour, if you'd like to join with us, and I hope that you will. I've given you that number, 800-347-5151. Just got this a minute ago. More than 76,000 has come in, which means just a very small amount is still available on the match, but there is still some available. Now, again, some of the questions that people oftentimes ask is, well, could it still be available to us later? Well, we'll see what we can come up with in that regard. But I know some of you are, like my wife and I,

[00:23:45] sometimes we tend to be old school. We'll write out a check, put it in an envelope, and we'll take it to the post office. And it has June 30th on the postmark, and that counts as well. So we'll count some of that. And, of course, I know that a few of you even listen to this later in the evening, because some of the radio stations play it later. It's still a call in. And so, again, I just want to encourage you to participate. And, again, I don't think any gift is too small. Any gift is too large. We've had a couple of large gifts.

[00:24:15] We've had some small ones and everything in between. 800-347-5151. I thought we would, for just a minute, give you a homework assignment. And this one doesn't come from me. It comes from Colonel Allen West. It is our third article. And he says, he says, Yes, I know that school is out for the summer. He said, Okay, sorry, Alice Cooper. I just had to use your line. That was a good line there. But, nevertheless, he says he's been recently visiting up there in New England. And I was just talking about Josh Barnes. Maybe I'll be up there.

[00:24:44] As a matter of fact, I know we will be. And he talks about, when he was in Rhode Island, something I was not aware of. I've lived in Connecticut. I've really studied American history. But I was unaware of the attack on the HMS Gaspi, which was a schooner that ran aground in June of 1772 while chasing, interestingly enough, a colonial ship.

[00:25:10] And as a result, there was a local merchant, John Brown, no relation to the guy at Harper's Ferry, he said, but had a raiding party of patriots that went on longboats, attacked, burned, and destroyed this British ship. Now, the point is, this was two years after the Boston Massacre, about three years before the Battle of Lexington.

[00:25:37] So, he says, when you speak to people in Rhode Island, they feel the claim of the first shot of American independence really belongs to them, not the Battle of Concord and Lexington. I thought that was kind of interesting. And I did not know much about the Gaspi raid and, of course, the attack on the HMS Gaspi. But he was making the point that, again, we need to study Americans' history.

[00:26:05] He's going to, in just a minute, encourage you to read the Declaration of Independence. Here is the booklet that we made available a few months ago, A Biblical View on the Declaration, and we've talked about that before. This book, which is more recently one that we made available on A Biblical View on America's Founding, which is really pretty much based on a very good book by Mark David Hall, who's been on the program before on a number of occasions.

[00:26:30] His book, which came out many years ago, Did America Have a Christian Founding? And, of course, we quote some of the other books that we've done interviews on over the years, and that is the case. So, he points out that, if nothing else, one of the concerns he had as he was traveling through New England is that when he was there, even though it's the 250th anniversary of our independence, he says, and I'm quoting him now,

[00:26:58] I saw more rainbow flags in New England than American flags. And so, he goes through some of the stories about that. But he also gives us another history lesson, which I've talked about before in one of my other booklets. I won't hold all those up, but there is one where we talk about how, in many cases, you can see some cycles in history.

[00:27:20] And he says, if you think about this, the story of America really didn't begin on July 4th, 1776. He says he really thinks it began, if you're really going to be honest, October 31st, 1517. What is that? Well, that's where Martin Luther nailed the 95 Theses on the Wittenberg door, in church door there.

[00:27:44] And he presented his officially titled Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences, which was really a challenge to the Catholic clergy, in which they were charging individuals, parishioners, for the absolution of their sins. And it was his premise that Jesus had gone to the cross. His sacrifice was enough for our sins, was sufficient for our sins.

[00:28:14] It was not necessary to have another intercessor. And it certainly was not necessary for individuals to be charged for that. And so, the point he makes is that, as we sometimes even point out in this book on the Declaration, some of these ideas predate 1776, because the next thing he talks about is something that happened later, and that was the writing of John Locke.

[00:28:41] Now, if you are familiar with Thomas Jefferson, he made it very clear that the Declaration was not presenting new ideas. He was taking the ideas and the concepts at the time and explaining why they were going to declare their independence from England. And one of those very significant arguments was the argument of John Locke,

[00:29:05] who in his second treatise of government in 1689 would argue that it was not just our spiritual freedom, but also our earthly freedoms that were endowed to us from our Judeo-Christian faith heritage of a creator God. Does that sound familiar? Of course. We are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

[00:29:31] That quote, all the way back to 1689, is the idea that was espoused by John Locke. He goes on to point out that the nation was based in large part on what's called natural rights theory, which comes from John Locke. And Jefferson began to invoke Locke as the father of kind of classical, what was called at that time liberalism. That's come to mean something different now.

[00:30:00] And so whether you look at Luther or Locke, you can see that many of those ideas all come to us today. And so here's his homework assignment. You have to go through the first couple of pages. And on the fourth page, he says, I really would encourage you to do this. And I would agree. Read the entire Declaration of Independence. And as you read it, might even read it to your children and grandchildren, you're going to notice something,

[00:30:28] because it lists all these usurpations that come from the king. And here, in some respects, that is reminiscent of some of the indulgences and other concerns that go all the way back to Martin Luther and, of course, even to some of the writings of John Locke. And so in some respects, he says, here we're 250 years later,

[00:30:58] we're still dealing with one of those issues, taxation without representation. I've often jokingly said, if we ever could meet up with the founders in heaven, I might say, if you thought taxation without representation was bad, you should have seen taxation with representation, because that's the world we are in today. And then reminds us that we are holding a debt of gratitude to Martin Luther, to John Locke,

[00:31:27] but also then adds one other, the great spiritual awakening through people like George Whitefield is one that he mentions, and we could certainly mention some others, because we recognize how instrumental all of those were in giving us the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution, and ultimately our Constitution. Ends with, of course, a very famous quote from Alexander Fraser Teitler,

[00:31:54] a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. And then, of course, talks about the different cycles of history. And if you are unfamiliar with that, we have a booklet, a biblical point of view on the cycles of history, that remind us that even as we are today, celebrating 250 years,

[00:32:21] we recognize that if we're going to continue, those principles that were essential to founding this republic are also the principles that are necessary for the maintenance of this republic. But let's take a break. When we come back, I want to come back to one other piece, that's America's universal aspiration, what we hope to actually aspire to in the future, how we have been able to correct many of the sins and flaws,

[00:32:49] but there's still more work to do. And that's, of course, what we'll be talking about here on Point of View. But as we go to our break, last time I checked, we were up at 76,000. I'm pretty sure we're getting close to 80,000, but there's still match on the table. So if you have been wanting to join with us, we're down to the last day, the last segment, and so a good time to make that phone call. 1-800-347-5151.

[00:33:18] 1-800-347-5151. Of course, at any time, you can go to the website, pointofview.net. Lots of great resources we are making available to you. Take the time to print some of these out, the ones I've been quoting from. And also stop by the button that says, Give Now, and we would love to hear from you. Let's take a break. Some final comments, right after this.

[00:33:59] You're listening to Point of View, your listener-supported source for truth. Back for a few more minutes, let me just mention as a program note that tomorrow, I'm going to spend some time talking with our good friend, Tim McGrew, the book of us, discovering ourselves in the story of the Bible. And so I think you'll appreciate that conversation as well. Last article here is America's Universal Aspiration. And I thought I'd just mention real quickly that one of the things he starts with are some of the concerns

[00:34:29] of what Barack Obama said at the opening of his presidential library, because what he was pointing out is that the aspiration of the founders was that we wouldn't be perfect, but we would strive for perfection. And I think it is really amazing. He goes on to talk about how James Q. Wilson is an individual that actually talked about this idea of universal aspiration in which we wanted to, in a sense, give people fair treatment.

[00:34:58] And in some respects, people failed to really understand that the genius, he says, of the founders wasn't in enabling their descendants to fix their mistakes. Rather, it was to fashion a system that strived to be righteous in the first place. America is not great because its founders provided us with a framework that allows each generation to make our union more perfect. It is great because their founders even thought that a more perfect union was possible. It's a really encouraging piece.

[00:35:28] It starts out with some of the negative comments by Barack Obama, but it ends by reminding us that we should be grateful for the nation that we have. And hasn't this World Cup been such an encouragement? Time and time again, we see people coming to this country and saying, I had no idea there was so much abundance. I had no idea there was so much freedom. And in some respects, maybe we've taken so much of it for granted. So on this 4th of July coming up, we should be celebrating

[00:35:56] with this nation that we have inherited and strive to do what we can to continue that in the future. But I thought just as we are winding down the last day of our fiscal year end, I thought it would be good to bring in the president of Point of View, Warren Kelly. So how are we doing? We're getting there. We're coming along. So let me first pause for a minute and say thank you to all of those of you that have given.

[00:36:26] You have no idea how much your gifts mean to us, and they really do make a difference for you for the future of our nation. But we've had $77,000 that's come in, which means we've got about $17,000 that still needs to come in to meet the match. So as Kirby has been saying, if you've been waiting until the last minute, well, we've got about six of them left before the show ends. And this is the last show of our fiscal year. And let me encourage you,

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[00:37:53] well, what are you doing? You're just a radio program, but we're a whole lot more than a radio program, aren't we? More than that, yes. And if you have been looking at our social media, you've seen that it has really moved ahead by big jumps, not little steps, but big jumps, and we have, again, the opportunity to really take that to the next level and maybe even a couple, three levels, but we do need some resources to do that. So your money does help pay for the radio program, yes,

[00:38:21] but there's also all the booklets, the Outlook magazines, the printed publications, the online publications. Kirby puts so much content on the website every single day, and it's all great content that will help you build your biblical worldview. So these are the things that you're giving to, these are the things that you're investing in, and it will make a difference as we do all the things that we're working on for reaching that next generation of Americans to see our nation turn back toward those biblical values.

[00:38:51] You know, Mike Ferris was with us, and Michael Ferris is not looking for something to do. No. Yeah. When you talk about a guy that was the founder of the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, the founder of the Patrick Henry College, served as the president and CEO of Alliance Defending Freedom from 2017 to 2022, and as the general counsel for national religious broadcasters, he's not looking for something to do, but he came on specifically because he remembers fondly even decades ago, as he pointed out, and he was trying to figure out

[00:39:20] how many decades we go back. I think we'll go back to the 1980s. I first met him in early 1980 because we're in the same Sunday school class there between Bible Church years ago when he was just getting started, but the bottom line is is that he was wanting to encourage people to give because he has seen the positive impact that Point of View has had. Yes. He talked about the HR6, the bill that was going to shut down homeschooling. He was kind of underselling that a little bit

[00:39:49] because it really would have basically banned homeschooling. It would have made it impossible for anyone to homeschool their children and would have made it very difficult to send your children to a private Christian school. And he, I think, also kind of undersold the response because Marlon gave the phone number out. Dick Armory was on with him to talk about that, then House Majority Leader. And the phones lit up so big at Congress they had never seen anything like that to borrow from President Trump. It was amazing how many,

[00:40:18] they literally shut down the switchboard for three days. We had congressmen that were calling and begging us to ask our people to quit calling. And it was not until they got rid of that bill that they finally stopped calling. So again, as we have just a few more minutes left, let's just mention that even though we're going out the air, we still have people that will be answering the phones. Is that correct? And they can, of course, go to the website pointofview.net. For some, I just said, there are some that,

[00:40:47] like my wife and I, sometimes old school, we like to write out a check. And if we write out a check and put it in an envelope and get it postmarked today, you'll count that and we will give an update probably next week because we'll have to wait for some of the mail to come in, right? Yes. Well, I hope that we see a tremendous response and that we can give you a really great update tomorrow, but it may be a few days, like we said, as we wait for all the mail to come in. But again, we really do need to hear from you and today is the last day and there is still match money on the table

[00:41:16] for a little while longer. So if you want to have your gift match, please give us a call, go online, and do it right away. And again, our goal is larger than the match, so first of all, we're trying to hit the match, but some people might say, well, can I still give because our goal is something that I think we could achieve by maybe one or two people out there that have the capacity and the ability to give a larger gift because big gifts do add up very quickly and that would be helpful to us as well. It would. We have set an ambitious goal,

[00:41:46] but in honor of our country's 250th birthday, we have a goal of $250,000 and we have had $177,000 come in toward that, so we've still got about $70,000 that we need to reach that goal. So yes, your gifts still are needed and will make a difference. Well, we're going to take a break and then tomorrow we'll come back and we'll try to give you a preliminary answer to the question, but probably won't know all of that for another few days, but I hope that you've appreciated the conversation here today.

[00:42:15] Mike Ferris certainly did a great job of promoting it, so did Joshua Barnes and those are just two of many people that we have on the program on a pretty regular basis, but let me mention one last time, if you would like to make a phone call and you can't do it this second, well then just write down 800-347-5151, 800-347-5151. If you can't call this moment and call a little bit later, we'll still try to cancel those phone calls. If you go to the website,

[00:42:45] pointofview.net, click on that red button that says Give Now and that is a great opportunity. It has been a privilege, of course, to do this program for now up to 40 years I've been doing this and I hope that you have appreciated it as well. Most importantly, I want to thank Megan for help engineering the program. Steve, thank you for producing the program. Warren, thank you for being in here. We'll see you back here tomorrow right here on Point of View.

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