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0:00 - 15:00. Galatians 2:16-20. The life which I now live in the flesh 15:00 - 31:00. The DOJ opposed the release of the Covenant Christian School shooter’s manifesto but seemed eager to release President Trump’s would-be-assassin’s bounty letter. 31:00 - 48:00. Is the FCC moving to fast track George Soros’ acquisition of over 200 radio stations around the country? www.afaaction.net/life To donate call : 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links Brendan Carr Kelly Hyman Letter from Ryan Routh
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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
0:07This is the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
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0:15Delivery people out of the bondage of mainstream media.
0:18And the philosophies of this world.
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0:24Even in this dark moment.
0:26Let's not miss our moment.
0:28And now, the Hamilton Corner.
0:33Good evening, everyone.
0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton,
0:37the third here.
0:39Thank you for tuning in to the program.
0:41I'm joined by the corner contingent right across from me,
0:43my man, 100 grand, Mr. Bobby.
0:45and in the screening room produced extraordinary often imitated but never duplicated y'all know what it is
0:52to real j Mac ladies and gentlemen
0:54and we are ready to rock and roll with today's edition of the program
0:59with so much happening around the world so much happening domestically
1:04uh...
1:06witnessing the bible unfolded for our very eyes
1:13It's very, very easy to allow the events swirling around us to take precedent in our
1:21hearts and in our minds.
1:24But I want to remind you that what goes on in your house is far more important than
1:31what goes on in the White House.
1:33At this very moment, many of you are making your transitions from your part time jobs
1:37where you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
1:44No, you did not hear me wrong.
1:46I didn't misspeak income generating capacities.
1:50It's what I describe as our part time work.
1:53It's our full time jobs.
1:54If you are a member of the eternal family of God,
1:58it's outcome cultivation.
2:00We must be about our father's business.
2:02The great commission requires us,
2:05Jesus commanded his disciples to go there for into all the world,
2:08making disciples of all nations,
2:10teaching them to obey everything he's commanded us.
2:15That is our full time job.
2:18That is the most immediate, or shouldn't me say it better, that is our externalization of our personal commitments to him.
2:27We must be about our father's business.
2:29I understand that disciple making takes time.
2:32It takes effort.
2:33It takes intentionality.
2:35It's not the light scan reaction type of stuff.
2:38You know, you're getting into the nitty gritty of getting involved in people's lives.
2:44You know, one of the things that my wife and I recognized is as
2:51Time goes forward and as family has been tattered so much as it has been where the truth is the majority of
3:00Children born in our country are being born at the homes where their fathers don't live in the home with them daily
3:05That's just a fact
3:07It's just a fact and one of the things that that came to rest upon me and my wife years ago was that I may have to
3:18Disciples my daughter's husbands. I have two daughters. They're very young
3:25know, they're nowhere near at that place yet. But this is something my wife and I consider,
3:32you know, and it includes all kinds of things. Man, when you're in discipleship relationships,
3:39people, you're in a very vulnerable position, but it's a necessary position. It's a necessary
3:47position. You've heard me say the people that are closest to us as the most opportunity
3:54to hurt us and the most frequent opportunity for us to hurt them. This is why we have
4:00commands in scripture like bear with one another in love.
4:03Because God knew things would arise that would require us to be able to put on our big boy
4:07pants, put on our adult attire and navigate it with maturity.
4:17One of the major deficiencies of our national ecclesiastical engagement is that discipleship
4:25has become a foreign concept for far too many, for far too many.
4:35And yeah, that's right, Sisasanthi. That's why I say I may have to.
4:38You know, if the Lord comes before then, well, glory be to God, you know.
4:43But we have to be about our father's business, man.
4:44We can't allow these things, even, you know, election season, uh, move us away from
4:52what is required of us by our Lord.
4:55We must be able to walk into you, God, at the same time.
4:58Of course I'm going to do my diligence.
5:00Of course I'm going to do my homework.
5:02Of course I'm going to study the entirety of my ballot, which by the way, there's
5:05far more in your ballot than the presidential election.
5:08I hope we understand that.
5:09I believe we understand that in this audience for sure.
5:13To find out what's on your ballot, go to ivoterguide.com.
5:15You can get a sample of your ballot,
5:17where you can get research directly from the horse's mouth, so to speak.
5:22Find out what the candidates stand for, who has given money to them, who they've given money to.
5:27If they're incumbents, you'll see their voting records available.
5:30You have a whole resource available to you right there at iVoterguide.com.
5:37Go there, utilize it, utilize it.
5:41That's one aspect of our engagement.
5:43While we do that, let's also make sure
5:45that we're proclaiming the gospel and making disciples.
5:49All right, there's no reason.
5:51Would you, Jeff, post a link to I vote a guide
5:53in the show notes, share the link with your loved ones
5:57and your family members.
6:01Share it with your loved ones and family members.
6:04There's no reason for us to be ignorant,
6:11it's a resource that's available to you.
6:14Let's go to the Word of God, Galatians chapter two,
6:16Galatians Chapter 2, verses 16 through 20.
6:19Galatians Chapter 2, verses 16 through 20.
6:25That's where I'm gonna go.
6:26If you are familiar with Paul's Epistle to the Galatians,
6:31when you examine it in light of the other Paulian Epistle,
6:34you'll see that it has what theologians describe
6:38as a muted prologue, simply means a shortened introduction
6:44because the Apostle Paul communicated
6:45the believers in Galatia with an urgency. Galatia was a province within the Roman Empire near
6:53and in the area where modern day Turkey is somewhat akin to a state. It was a province that included
6:58numerous cities in that province. Mm. Mm. Praise God. And this epistle had an urgency from the
7:15Apostle Paul because after he had been there proclaiming the gospel, making disciples in
7:22the Galatian province, Judaizers came in thereafter and attempted to persuade the Gentile believers
7:30in the Galatian province that they basically had to convert to Judaism demonstrable by performing
7:39the works of the Old Testament law in order to secure justification.
7:44So the Apostle Paul responded with an urgency right at the beginning of chapter 3, he says,
7:49Oh, foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?
7:53You know, and that wasn't just Paul expressing himself
7:55with an emotional rage, so to speak.
7:59He's drawn from the pagan concept of bewitched
8:07to illustrate just how stark a deviation,
8:11how stark a deviation from the grace of God,
8:15the Galatians were being, were tempted to yield to.
8:19And in the course of assuring them that you are full-fledged believers.
8:23You are just as much members of the eternal family of God as our Jewish brother.
8:27As he was, the Apostle Paul was obviously a Jewish rabbi himself.
8:33And Paul was conveying to them that you are just as much a believer as I am,
8:37just as much as the Apostle Paul is.
8:40In chapter two of Paul's Epistle to the Galatians,
8:44Paul recounts his confrontation against Peter in Antioch.
8:49because Peter is not his speech, but his conduct was not consistent with the gospel.
8:56And so he records how he confronted Peter to his face in public.
9:00He didn't have a relationship with Peter. We learn Peter later.
9:05Becomes the primary proponent advocating for full inclusion of Gentile believers without the necessity of performing the works of the law for justification.
9:16But in recounting his encounter with Peter,
9:21verse 16 includes a part of what the Apostle Paul told Peter
9:25when he was confronting him.
9:26And then he builds towards a popular scripture
9:29that many of us may know once we start reading it,
9:32but may not have remembered the context
9:34that it comes to us.
9:36Galatians chapter two verse 16, this is Apostle Paul
9:39quoting himself in the conversation he had with Peter
9:42back in Antioch and conveying this to the believers
9:47in the Galatian Province.
9:49Galatians 216,
9:50Nevertheless, knowing that a man is not justified
9:53by the works of the law,
9:54but through faith in Christ Jesus,
9:56even we have believed in Christ Jesus,
10:00so that we may be justified by faith in Christ
10:03and not by works of the law.
10:06Since by works of the law, no flesh will be justified.
10:09Paul is saying this to Peter in front of Gentiles in Antioch.
10:13San Peter, you are Jewish, just like I'm Jewish,
10:15but you know as well as I know that no man is justified
10:17by works of the law.
10:18That's why you and I have placed our faith in Jesus Christ
10:21for justification, which by the way,
10:24if you don't know what justification is,
10:25it's a big theological word.
10:28It literally means justification is a legal decree,
10:32a juridical decree to where the King of Kings
10:35as well as the eternal judge of heaven and earth
10:38declares the justified as righteous,
10:42to where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to the recipient.
10:48And the recipient's sinfulness is imputed
10:50to Jesus Christ on the cross.
10:53And so that the recipient of salvation by grace through faith
10:58as a result of the atoning sacrifice of Christ Jesus,
11:01the believer is justified.
11:05It's a legal decree, a juridical act,
11:08the gavel has come down.
11:09And Paul is saying, Peter, you know this as well as I know,
11:12Now, the gabber didn't come down declaring us righteous
11:15because of our works,
11:16because you know you, you know you's a wild boy.
11:19Just like you knows I'm a wild boy.
11:21That's what Paul is saying.
11:22You know how you get down.
11:23You know how I got down.
11:24You know how you got down.
11:26If it was based on us, the gabber will be going
11:30in another direction.
11:32Then he continues verse 17.
11:34But if while seeking to be justified in Christ,
11:36we ourselves have also been found sinners,
11:39is Christ and a minister of sin?
11:42May it never be, God forbid.
11:46For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed,
11:48I prove myself to be a transgression.
11:52For through the law, I died to the law.
11:55So that I might live to God
12:04have been crucified with Christ.
12:06This is verse 20.
12:08And it is no longer I who live,
12:10but Christ lives in me
12:13and the life which I now live in the flesh.
12:17I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me
12:23and gave himself up for me.
12:27Oh God, thank you for your work.
12:30Now that verse, many of us know it and have quoted it,
12:33but did you realize that that verse was provided for us
12:36within the context of the Apostle Paul,
12:38explaining that salvation is not by works,
12:41but salvation is received by grace through faith.
12:44That salvation is the free gift of God
12:46that you cannot earn your way into salvation.
12:49You cannot work your way into salvation.
12:51You cannot earn your way to being justified before God.
12:54You cannot work your way
12:55and to being justified before God.
12:57It is a free gift.
13:01And what I want you to see,
13:03that when the Apostle Paul says,
13:05"'I've been crucified with Christ,
13:08"'and it is no longer I who live,
13:09"'but it's Christ who lives in me,
13:12"'the life which I now live in the flesh.
13:17"'I live by faith in the Son of God.
13:20"'What I want you to see is receiving
13:25salvation by grace through faith doesn't only have implication for our
13:30eternal state. Paul is explaining because I have been justified that
13:37justification now guides the way I live now in the flesh too many times too many
13:44professing believers have become too comfortable with allowing their flesh to
13:49remain fleshly. As opposed to the lies we live now in the flesh we live in
13:57in the faith of the Son of God.
13:59To say differently, the life that we live in the flesh now
14:01should be impacted by the eternal hope that we have.
14:08I'm not trying to convey some,
14:09heretical doctrine of perfectionism, not by any means.
14:15But the works that are involved in the life of a believer
14:18flow from being justified.
14:20It is because we have faith.
14:22It is because we have a confident expectation
14:25of our eternal hope.
14:26It is because of that, that our lives that we live now
14:30are impacted by the eternal hope that we had.
14:41There's no such thing as being so heavenly minded
14:43that we are no earthly good.
14:44You cannot be heavenly minded if you're no earthly good.
14:47It is because we are heavenly minded
14:49that the lives you live now in the flesh,
14:51we live in the faith and the Son of God.
14:53Our eternal hope, our temple engagement.
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16:14This is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:18Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
16:21The third here, man, there's so much going on
16:24and I have things that I didn't get to yesterday
16:26that I want to make sure that I share in my efforts
16:32to serve this audience well.
16:35Many of you will recall that after, and y'all know my policy,
16:40I don't exalt the name of murderers on this program,
16:45but the confused young lady who went on a murderous rampage
16:50at the Covenant Christian School in Nashville, Tennessee.
16:53Many of you may recall that there was a great legal battle
16:56over whether or not her manifesto would be released
17:02by the Department of Justice, you remember that?
17:05And legal battles ensued, you had local media outlets
17:08that actually sued the government
17:10to have first portions of it released
17:12and the entire thing released.
17:15It became pretty clear why the manifesto wasn't released
17:18because it simply didn't comport with the popular orthodoxy,
17:28regressive orthodoxy of the day.
17:30It was clear that she had problems concerning her identity
17:36that contributed toward her going towards violence,
17:41the affirmation of iterations of critical theory,
17:45queer theory as well as critical race theory, partiality based on skin color.
17:51Not in a way that's commonly described, you know,
17:56you had the full panoply of, uh, it kind of hits all the high notes.
18:01But the thing I want you to note is the Department of Justice fought vigorously to
18:07try to keep that manifesto from being publicized.
18:10And what was the reasoning that they publicly stated?
18:13Well, we don't want to incentivize or to incite future acts of violence, right?
18:25Well, in a stunning turn of events, there would be a sassen of President Trump at the West Palm Beach golfers golf club.
18:38Similarly had a letter, a letter delivered.
18:43And this letter was one delivered according to reports allegedly before the
18:52attempted assassination and included the would-be assassins desire to offer a
19:01bounty that if I fail to get the job done I will pay a hundred fifty grand for who
19:10to the person who does get the job done. And it seemed that the Department of
19:16Justice was very eager to release that letter.
19:21Listen to it watch, clip number five, go.
19:27Ruth where he says, quote,
19:29this was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
19:32Now this letter came from a civilian that contacted police
19:35after they say Ruth dropped off a box at their house
19:38several months prior to the attempt.
19:40After learning of the incident, the witness opened this box
19:43and found ammunition with the letter that also says
19:46will offer $150,000 to whoever can quote complete the job if he failed.
19:53Now, this is what I want to know.
19:57Maybe y'all can help me process my thoughts here.
20:01Why was the Department of Justice so eager to release this letter?
20:05You know?
20:07Was it confirmed and verified who it came from?
20:10What was so necessary?
20:12What was so urgent?
20:14What was the basis before releasing this letter?
20:19It's the same Department of Justice, same Department of Justice.
20:24And we have all kinds of questions about who he was and how did he get way, God, and all
20:30that kind of stuff.
20:31You know, he entered a shoot out with a secret service and somehow he is unscathed, but put
20:37that put that aside.
20:38I'm talking specifically about the Department of Justice decision.
20:43I mean, they didn't even wait.
20:45There was no hand-ringing.
20:47There were no press conferences.
20:49There were no, there were no.
20:50Oh, we cannot release this letter. We don't want to incite any I mean
20:55It may be I'm wrong, but isn't this the second assassination attempt within two months in the line of reasoning with the covenant?
21:06School shooter was they didn't want to incite further violence
21:11Okay, President Trump got shot in the ear just about two months ago
21:18Followed by this event was there no concern
21:22with their no concerns about the potential of inciting what's what's what's
21:31what's it further violence in this instance I mean again it could just be me
21:38but it's does seem to me that there is a bit too much of a casual approach to this
21:47scenario I mean what what do you how would you describe that all we just came
21:56I'm across this letter and it just has this information for a bounty.
21:59I mean, I don't know if somebody will be willing to finish the job.
22:02I don't know.
22:03I mean, you finish the job.
22:04You may be able to get paid and, oh, you know, you finish the job and you get.
22:15This stuff is just out in the open now.
22:19It's just out in the open.
22:22You know, and I'm not interested in provoking any fear and these other things.
22:27But is that not strange?
22:29I mean, for what it's worth, former Attorney General William Barr, his reaction was he was
22:38quote dumbfounded in quote, dumbfounded.
22:44Says he was dumbfounded that the Justice Department will release such a chilling letter and the
22:51decision to do so was rash and serving no purpose other than to risk inciting further violence
22:55in quote.
22:56Yeah.
22:57I mean, that's what I would think.
22:59That's what I would think.
23:02and I'm not, you know, I'm not a fan of censorship, you know,
23:05some, it seems like YouTube finally got there,
23:08they're, they're act together.
23:09Although, I think, J. Meck, I can say we helped them
23:13get their act together.
23:14I'll just say it that way, just leave it at that.
23:18Cause some of you are watching us right now on YouTube,
23:20the original Hamilton going to YouTube channel is back up.
23:24Interesting how that happened, you know.
23:28So I'm not at all in favor of censorship, but man.
23:34This seems to be quite obvious.
23:41Seems to be quite obvious that that would be one.
23:43I want to hold onto that one for a little bit.
23:45You might want to let emotions to die down quite a bit.
23:55I mean, because I can't imagine being a member
23:59of the Trump family having witnessed him
24:01literally almost shot in the face on national television.
24:04And then within two months, having a guy who just so happened to be hanging out where he's playing golf,
24:15though his schedule, his golf schedule was not publicized, by the way.
24:22Very, very interesting. Very, very interesting to me.
24:26I have more questions about other matters. We'll go to this one.
24:29And this one really strikes at home. Some of you know,
24:34and in addition to my role here, uh, as host of the Hamilton corner,
24:38I served the American Family Association as his general counsel.
24:40So I am the point man for our interactions with the FCC for all things.
24:44AFR including station transactions.
24:48Why am I mentioning that?
24:51Oh, yeah.
24:51A group called the Soros Fund Management Group.
24:57You know, George Soros has crossed an administrative hurdle to become the new
25:05owner of over 200 radio stations all across America, serving a listening audience
25:11of 165 million people over 200 radio stations and over 40 markets all across the country.
25:22But that's one small detail to this matter.
25:29George Soros fielded bids from foreign individuals and companies to provide the funds to purchase
25:40these stations.
25:41And I'm going to explain some of the background drop information.
25:50But there's a law in America that prohibits foreigners from owning more than 25% of American
25:58radio stations.
26:02And there's this little pesky thing.
26:04You might have heard of this before.
26:06When there's a potential foreigner seeking to acquire radio stations, the FCC requires
26:13a national security review.
26:14I usually take anywhere between at least six months to a year if not longer because
26:25American citizens have an interest in
26:28Keeping foreigners from owning and controlling our airwaves not comprehensively, but just not exceeding 25%
26:37so to give you a little bit of
26:43the factual information because I know a lot of people talking about the
26:46the headline information, but I want to give you some of the factual data.
26:51So a communications company by the name of Odyssey, A-U-D-A-C-Y, filed for Chapter 11
26:58Bankruptcy Protection back in January of this year.
27:02All right.
27:03Odyssey filed their Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in the state of Texas.
27:08Several months thereafter, the Southern District of Texas' Bankruptcy Court approved Odyssey's
27:15reorganization plan, reorganization plan, which paved the way for it to be able to sell over 80%
27:22of its debt. All right. That's what bankruptcy is. It's an organized process of paying off debtors.
27:30Some will be paid. Some won't be paid, but it's a work, it's working with the court to reorganize
27:34a lot that's transpired. So after Odyssey filed their chapter 11 bankruptcy, this Soros management
27:44fund acquired $414 million of
27:49Odyssey's debt, which is nearly
27:5240% of the companies senior debt.
27:55And emerged as a result as the
27:57company's primary shareholder.
28:00But in order to pay the $414
28:02million, Soros took money from
28:04foreign investors.
28:06All right.
28:08As a result of Odyssey going
28:11bankrupt, you have this new
28:13infusion of capital potentially
28:14$414 million.
28:15Odyssey filed with the FCC and asked them for permission to approve the transfer of its broadcast licenses, ultimately to the reorganize company now owned primarily by Soros's group.
28:31For those who don't know, in order for any purchase or sale of any radio or television station, it has to be approved by the FCC.
28:41All right, there's a whole lot of detail we can get into the discuss policy considerations,
28:45but those are the facts, all right.
28:49Represented a trip roar from Texas, sent it to Ted Cruz and a few other critics raised
28:53some concern back then in February, I said, whoa, wait, so you mean to tell me George Soros
28:58is about to use undisclosed so far foreigners to purchase the second largest media company,
29:07company in particular in America in terms of FCC licenses for radio stations. There's a law
29:18section 310 B4 of the Communications Act that specifically states that American broadcast companies
29:25can have no more than 25 percent foreign investment. All right. So when Odyssey initiated the FCC
29:34transfer, Sorrows then comes in and asks for two things.
29:38One, hey FCC, we want you to wave the prohibition on a broadcast company being owned by no more
29:47than 25% of foreign investment.
29:50We want you to wave that chief and why in the waving business, we also want you to wave
29:57the national security review process so that we can hurry up and take ownership of these
30:01stations.
30:05And guess what?
30:06Y'all are not going to believe this, yes you will.
30:11Guess what the FCC decided to do?
30:14Well, let me explain a little bit about the FCC.
30:16The FCC is currently controlled by a Democrat majority.
30:20There are five FCC commissioners.
30:23There are two static Republicans and two static Democrats, depending on who's the president,
30:28the president gets to appoint the chairman of the Board of Commissioners for the FCC.
30:34But right now the Democrats have the three to two majority on the FCC of FCC commissioners.
30:41How do y'all think source was application went?
30:44What do you think?
30:46You don't have to guess how tell you.
30:48In a three to partisan line vote, the FCC voted to approve both the waiver of the prohibition
30:58of more than 25% ownership by foreigners as well as the fast track.
31:08Now none of this has been finalized.
31:10It hasn't been published yet.
31:15But this is what is being reported in current FCC commissioner Brendan Carr, who was appointed
31:22by President Trump, talked a little bit about this.
31:25It's clip number one.
31:26Go.
31:27Well, you know that the post has a story out last week or actually yesterday that says
31:34that the FCC last week adopted in order that effectively fast-tracks
31:41Soros's purchase of these 200 radio stations.
31:44And I haven't commented on that publicly because the fact is the
31:47FCC hasn't released a final decision to the public yet.
31:51But the reporting is that we adopted it last week in a 3-2 vote.
31:55I've been outspoken on this particular issue for the reasons that you talked about.
31:59We have a very clear process of the FCC that we've set up that could take six months,
32:04could take a year to go through to review the foreign ownership at issue here. But for
32:08reasons that are not sort of plain to me, the FCC commission for the very first time ever
32:14has skipped that process for the benefit of this Soros backed group. And I'll sort of
32:22let people draw their own conclusions about it. But again, it's it's an unprecedented
32:25decision for the commission has never happened in the history of the FCC. Never. Did I say
32:32has never happened. Now all of a sudden, FCC is not interested in making sure of ensuring,
32:43not interested in ensuring that American radio stations are not owned by foreigners.
32:53I wonder why that's happening. How far again are we away from? Election day this fall.
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33:54So yeah, NPR appears,
33:56and I'm saying appears because the final order
33:58has not been published yet,
33:59but appears to have allowed the next step for the acquisition
34:07of over 200 radio stations across 40 different markets,
34:10serving, not NPR, I'm sorry,
34:13the George Soros's group,
34:15the Soros Management Fund.
34:17I was commenting with somebody all know about NPR. I'm sorry about that not NPR the Soros's
34:24Management Fund to acquire over 200 stations
34:28Across the United States of American 40 different markets serving a listening listenership
34:34Should say accessing because they're not serving
34:37Accessing a listenership of about 165 million Americans
34:41now sure some of the stations may be you know hard rock or something, but
34:48that I mentioned this part, some of the radio stations
34:51that source would acquire are stations
34:52that currently carry shows like the Glimbec program
34:55and Sean Hannity and Dana Lash and Eric Erickson
34:59and some of those programs like that.
35:02Mm-hmm, yeah, yeah, yeah.
35:05But it's amazing to me that the FCC is so willing.
35:11Sure, we'll allow that.
35:15We'll bypass our own regulations
35:17to allow you to acquire the station sooner.
35:21Can't make it up.
35:25Bypassing both.
35:27I want you to be clear.
35:27I want to be clear.
35:28Bypassing both.
35:29The prohibition on foreign ownership of American radio stations
35:32exceeding 25%.
35:34And bypassing the normal required national security review
35:43for a foreign acquisition of American broadcast station.
35:48Now to be clear, the potential exists
35:51that even if they grant these waivers
35:54that the FCC could come around on the back end
35:58to do the reviews and do the queries,
36:00but that's not the way that the FCC does this normally.
36:03They have processes that we all follow.
36:06We have to follow the FCC processes
36:08if we sell or if we purchase a station
36:10just in the transaction between fellow Americans.
36:17It's just wild.
36:18And these are the same people, remember all of that.
