October 29, 2025 · 51:53

Day 29 of the Government shutdown and the public discourse surrounding it is changing somewhat.

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0:00 - 15:00. Proverbs 17:10. You can either be a “man of understanding” or a “fool.” But you can’t be both. 15:00 - 31:00. Day 29 of the Government shutdown and the public discourse surrounding it is changing somewhat. 31:00 - 48:00. Bari Weiss as CBS News’ Editor-in-Chief has some quite perturbed. Callers weigh in. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call : 877-616-2396 Video Clip Links Jake Tapper v. Representative Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) Kaitlan Collins v. Jasmine Crockett Karoline Leavitt Kasie Hunt v. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)

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0:00Darkness is not an affirmative force.
0:03It simply reoccupies the space vacated by the light.
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1:01At this very moment, many of you,
1:03if not most of you are making your transition
1:05from your part time jobs where you generate an income
1:08to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
1:11Outcome cultivation is the order of the day.
1:15As you do so, I want to remind you that
1:17As you do so, I want to remind you to make this transition
1:22with intentionality, recognizing the primacy
1:24that God places on family and allowing that,
1:28allowing the primacy that God places on family
1:31to drive your engagement.
1:33There are lots of things that we can do.
1:35And I may talk about this more going forward,
1:38but I feel like one of the major things
1:40that the Lord has impressed me to continue to point out
1:43is that we must be vigilant in the civic engagement sphere,
1:48civic engagement sphere, no doubt about it,
1:51sure we need to be vigilant in other areas,
1:55but if we attend the civic engagement,
1:58and if we contend and attend to, I should say,
2:02things like fiscal responsibility,
2:03but we are not making disciples,
2:06we are missing the core of what is necessary.
2:09I've been referring quite a bit lately
2:11to John Adams' quote, you know, when he says that our Constitution of Republican form of
2:17government is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other people, but a religious and moral
2:21people.
2:22He in that same statement, in his letter to the Massachusetts militia, he says that our
2:27government is incapable, incapable of bridling human, of navigating human passion unbridled
2:38by religion and morality.
2:40He said humans with passions unbridled by religion and morality will go through our government
2:45like a whale goes through a net.
2:47That's what he said.
2:49That's what he said.
2:51And so I want you to recognize when you see Zora Momdani leading in New York City, you
2:56know, when you see these things happening, it's a reflection of a people who are no longer
3:01adequate for a constitutional Republican form of government.
3:05So then what is the answer?
3:06What is the remedy?
3:07is not to usher in a fundamental transformation of the United States of America.
3:14Sit down, Michelle. Way in the back. You all the way. All the way. You too.
3:19No, that's not the answer. The answer is that there must be boots on the ground engaging with
3:24the hearts and minds of the American people. Simply put, our form of government anticipates a robust,
3:31evangelizing and disciple making church, because without a people who are self-governed this
3:39experiment of self-government, well, it's inevitable what will transpire, because a wicked
3:46people will not endure godly governance.
3:50So we must be about our Father's business.
3:52So as you are making your transition, the most important thing you can do with your day
3:57today is to make your home a sanctuary for the presence of God, to make your home a place
4:03where the name of Jesus is exalted for your home, your dinner table, your area.
4:09I don't care how lavish or simple it may be.
4:14Let me just say this for a moment, point of personal privilege, your honor.
4:21Homes are made to be lived in.
4:23Some people want to treat their homes like museums.
4:26And I told my wife, I am far more concerned with you presenting our children with the word
4:32of God than I am concerned with you fluffing the pillows on our couch before I get home.
4:39Please, we have to keep the main thing, the main thing.
4:45All right, back on schedule.
4:49What goes on in your homes?
4:51What goes on in your house is far more important than what goes on in the White House because
4:54there are lots of things that can be done.
4:56There are lots of things that are transpired that are vitally important, the presidents, negotiations
5:01with China and in South Korea and other nations concerning the tariffs, those things are vitally
5:06important, but they are not more important to you than what happens in your home. They're
5:10not more important to me than what happens in my home. And there's all things in my home
5:15that I am the only one who can respond to it. And you and I are accountable for what we do
5:23with the time that God has given us within the jurisdiction that God has assigned us to.
5:29All right, to the word of God we go.
5:31Proverbs chapter 17.
5:36Proverbs chapter 17.
5:38This is another point of personal privilege to start.
5:43Guys, read your Bible daily.
5:47Read your Bibles daily.
5:53The word of God should become to you
5:56as absolutely necessary as food, water, and oxygen.
6:05Read your Bibles.
6:10If we are a people who are not consistently reading the word of God,
6:16we are actively putting ourselves in a position for a lack of discernment.
6:20To say it differently,
6:21differently we're putting ourselves in a position to be easily deceived.
6:25In this era of AI, you know, I'm telling you all,
6:28I robot with all of the things that are happening,
6:32we cannot afford to be a people who lack discernment.
6:36The primary mechanism of developing discernment is feasting,
6:44on God's word and seeking the Lord through his word, not, well, I got to get a
6:52void today. I got to get a void. If I got my void, no, no, no. No, we seek our Lord
6:58through his word so that we are transformed and that we encounter him in
7:03his word. I can tell you the number of times I've read passages and read over
7:11things and I've read it 10, 20, 30, sometimes a hundred times before but that
7:18And one hundred and first time, man, the Lord opens my eyes in a way.
7:24And it just draws me once again to the reality and the conclusion that I cannot
7:30live without him.
7:32Proverbs chapter 17, one verse, Proverbs 17, 10.
7:38Proverbs 17, 10.
7:41And this is what the Lord says in his word, a rebuke goes deeper into a man of
7:47understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
7:52You want to talk about profound.
7:57A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding
8:01than a hundred blows into a fool.
8:07The question I have for us to ponder today
8:10is are you a man of understanding or are you a fool?
8:19When we mature to becoming men and women of understanding,
8:26we grow to appreciate the efficacy of love based rebuke.
8:33from a position of immaturity.
8:37You know, when I say rebuke, let me add a couple components
8:39to this, what the proverb writer has in view
8:43is an offering of rebuke that is anchored
8:46in eternity based love, and that is articulated
8:51in the solidity of the unchangeable truth
8:56of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
8:59This is not, I'm gonna check him.
9:02I'm gonna check, hey, Bob, you say that, boy,
9:03but I'm gonna check him.
9:04Jeff, you saw that mama, sheikah. That is not what the proverb writer is talking about.
9:10The proverb writer is talking about rebuke in the same sense that the Apostle Paul talks about
9:16the enduring benefits of rebuke and reproof in 2 Timothy chapter 3. All right.
9:23So when you understand the quality of the offering that is envisioned by proverb 17 verse 10,
9:30then the query turns to, am I a man of understanding?
9:39Because there is reality, and the Hebrew writer says this
9:46in Hebrews chapter five, and in other chapters,
9:49actually in the book of Hebrews, first and foremost,
9:54the Lord loves those whom he chases or corrects.
9:59To the immature and the uninitiated, a correction
10:02can seem like a personal challenge or even a degradation.
10:08But when you mature to become a man or a woman
10:10understanding you recognize, hmm, if God is offering me this
10:14rebuke, the offering comes from a place of unfathomable love for me.
10:25The fact that God loves me so much so that he would don human flesh and
10:32take the punishment for my sin, that should recalibrate my calculus concerning
10:38his chastening concerning his rebuke.
10:40Then it puts me in a posture, what is it that the Lord is attempting to drive me toward?
10:49What is it that the Lord is attempting to shave off of me?
10:54Proverbs 17 and 10 says that a rebuke of this quality that I described previously, it goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows.
11:10I'm going to a fool.
11:13The picture for the contrasting point with the fool and how the method of attempted attention
11:20grabbing is physicality.
11:25A hundred blows, being smitten, being struck, being pummeled, to a fool the pummeling has
11:34no benefit because the only assessment is the surface level superficial reality of the pummeling.
11:43anything beyond or deeper than that, which brings me right back to the question again.
11:48Are we men of understanding or are we fools?
11:53Now to help us navigate that assessment and with the Holy Spirit being the source of introspection
11:59and evaluation.
12:02Have you ever been in a situation where God keeps teaching you the same lesson over and
12:09over and over and over and over and over and over.
12:20Have you ever been in a situation where God is teaching the same lesson through different
12:23people and different verbiage, but the same issue keeps coming up?
12:30Again, ask on that point, are we men and women of understanding or are we foolish?
12:35I used to teach a Bible study, started out with young men.
12:44If you can imagine this on Friday night in the world of Louisiana, it's a bunch of dudes.
12:48We didn't have any food.
12:49we just have the Bible. And one of the conversations we would have is from another scripture in Proverbs,
13:05he who has often reproved yet stiffens his neck will suddenly be destroyed in that without remedy.
13:13We would often say, I would often say to the brothers, you will never graduate beyond the last
13:18point of your disobedience. You'll never graduate beyond the last point of your rebellion against
13:23God because God knows because of the combination of first to sin nature.
13:33Next, the fallenness that we have.
13:35Next, the dullness that we have because when we're regenerated, we're born again,
13:40we're quickened from breathing to death into life.
13:44And the sanctification journey could largely be described as growing in maturity
13:49into the fullness of our new nature to say a differently, to learn how to live new
13:55natural, new natural as something to ponder.
14:01Are you natural? Are you new? Natural.
14:03And because of that dullness, sometimes the Lord has to communicate things to us more than once.
14:12The objective should be for us, though, to get to the place to where we mature and say,
14:21Lord, I want to become a man or a woman of understanding.
14:28And I recognize that your rebukes are love expressed to me.
14:33And I want that to penetrate deeply so that I don't have to
14:38repeat this lesson over and over and over again.
14:42So when confronted with the loving embrace of the Lord through His
14:47chest hysmes, one of the most profound things that we must do is say,
14:53Lord, show me myself through this.
15:00A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:03It is in fact relatively easy to bless others and encourage people with our
15:07words if we wisely and very deliberately seek to do so. Well, what are some words
15:14that we can speak as a lifestyle that can bless others? What are some words
15:18that can promote healing grace and encouragement in the lives of others?
15:23Well here are a few. Thank you. I appreciate you. Please, how can I help you?
15:31I'm sorry. I apologize. Please forgive me. How can I pray for you? What can I do to
15:40bless you today? You are awesome. You are a blessing. I believe in you. I believe you
15:49can do it. You will do great. And obviously these are just a few words, but words that
15:54can bless and encourage others in their daily lives.
16:00When you hear the letters AFR, there are a lot of things that could come to mind.
16:05Automotive finders resource, alligator-frying research, or the association of flying red
16:11necks.
16:12All great organizations, no doubt.
16:14But we hope the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear AFR is American Family
16:19Radio, a listener-supported network dedicated to sharing the gospel and promoting godly
16:24values.
16:25God expects maturity.
16:29You should not be comfortable living with habitual sins.
16:34So that's a news cycle item.
16:37Is it the top news story to God?
16:39No, because he warned us about all of this.
16:41Now I don't care how nice you think you are.
16:46If you're not telling someone the truth,
16:49you're not being loving to them.
16:51Make no mistake, we're not anglers from Red Bay,
16:54but we are AFR, American Family Radio.
16:58and we're happy you're listening.
17:05Shining light into the darkness,
17:07this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
17:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner,
17:13Abraham Hamilton III here.
17:16I'm gonna do something today I haven't done in a while.
17:19In the third segment, we're gonna open the phone lines.
17:22And I want to invite you to weigh in on this
17:26shut down craziness in your assessment of it.
17:30So I wanted to prepare you for that,
17:32That's which is why I'm announcing it now
17:35Because I'd just been man that clock is so disrespectful and I would have it in my heart to get to the calls and
17:42They all know what happens
17:44But we're gonna try it. We're gonna do it today
17:47So in case you forgotten what the number is I know we'll see like I haven't forgotten it
17:51But I still have it right here. I have it on speed dial the number is 888 589 884 0
17:58That number is 888 589 884 0 now that will be in the third segment
18:03But right now we're in the second segment.
18:07So let's commence the weaving with some of the,
18:09some of the foolishness, some of it is not so much foolishness,
18:14but you do have some foolishness, the jure.
18:18And one of the things that's happening is,
18:22some of you know this, and I hope to get to this in a moment,
18:24but CBS News has acquired the free press, right?
18:30So many of you, some of you may be aware of it.
18:32I use the free press as one of my sources for show prep.
18:38And the free press is the media company
18:41that was founded by Barry Weiss,
18:44who was a former opinion editor at the New York Times.
18:48And some of you may recall, she left the New York Times
18:50in 2020, I believe, 2021.
18:53And she wrote an extensive letter
18:57and she published a letter and said basically,
19:00The New York Times does not embrace diversity of thought.
19:04If you have an opinion that varies from the accepted narrative
19:09in the institution, then you are bullied,
19:12and you are intimidated, and you are harassed,
19:16and basically extricated ultimately from the places.
19:22She left the New York Times, started her own outfit
19:24at the Free Press, which is a subscription media company.
19:29I don't pay for the subscription though.
19:31I just get the stuff they put up,
19:33but that's not behind the paywall.
19:36But they do a good job.
19:37And I think Barry Weiss comes from a tradition
19:42of actual journalistic integrity.
19:45The Free Press of course, I don't know
19:46if everything they published,
19:48but they had some sound journalistic offerings there.
19:51Well, Paramount, the parent company for CBS,
19:55purchased the Free Press and in the process
19:59named Barry Weiss as the new editor in chief for CBS News.
20:05And I'm not going to a clip yet, don't worry about it.
20:07I'm just setting this up because I think Barry Weiss's
20:11new position as editor in chief is CBS
20:14is sending shockwaves across the media landscape
20:18and all of a sudden, all of a sudden,
20:19here we are day 29 of the government shutdown.
20:23This is literally six days away from tying the record
20:27for the longest government shutdown
20:28in American history.
20:30I presented the question to this audience early on.
20:35Why isn't the government shutdown the biggest news story?
20:38Why aren't we talking about this
20:40the same way we talk about it?
20:41Oh, let me see it better.
20:42The same way they talk about it
20:45when they try to come up with some narrative
20:47to try to pin the shutdown and the reasons
20:49for it all on Republicans.
20:50And I made the point that it's because it's clear
20:53objectively the issue here is only a Democrat issue.
20:59It's the Democrats who passed Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act, which now
21:05to Washington Post all of a sudden is admitting, no, it's not affordable. And this is what they
21:09added, Bobby. It never was affordable. Now, you and I know that on this show, we talked,
21:16we've talked about that, but the Washington Post spent the previous decade ever since,
21:24you know, Barack and Michelle wanted to get the Obamacare act, no Obamacare passed.
21:31They just talking about how wonderful it was and how always great is compassion
21:35and all that and now they're watching the votes today. It's not affordable. It never was affordable.
21:39So the Democrats passed Obamacare with no Republican votes, not a one. Then you had
21:47Schmovitz response. You had the, you know, the American, what was it called? The Restoration Act,
21:55passed without Republican votes. Then you had the Inflation Reduction Act, passed without Republican
22:00votes. And I told you before the Inflation Reduction Act had nothing to do with reducing inflation.
22:05It was a green new scam just paper with a new name and included in it was the expansion of
22:11Obamacare subsidies. The bottom line of Obamacare was because you had many of the very very Bernie
22:17Sanders, he said, we need single payer healthcare in America single payer. So our healthcare system
22:24to be as terrible as candidates. Have you ever noticed how most people from Britain, they look
22:31like they need braces? I'm not trying to shade them. I'm not trying to shade them, but it's because
22:37of that single-payer health care. They don't, the single-payer doesn't pay for people to get their teeth
22:43fixed in Britain. That's why, if you ever wondered, that's why. That's not a spleen, that's not a heart
22:50brick and that's not a heart stoppage. Nah, you can't get your teeth fixed, chief. And guess what?
22:56They have no alternative to go to if they want to get their teeth fixed, they have to leave England,
23:00leave Britain. So getting back to this whole situation, the Obamacare was passed, no Republican
23:09against votes, American Restoration Act,
23:11the inflation reduction act passed
23:12with no Republican votes.
23:15And guess what?
23:16In the inflation reduction act,
23:17it was the Democrats who passed the bill
23:19that set the sunset date
23:22for the expanded,
23:23the enhanced Obamacare subsidies.
23:26The subsidies are the taxpayers,
23:30portions of paying for health insurers,
23:33for people who are deemed to have lower moderate incomes.
23:37So the Democrats are the ones who passed the bill,
23:39they could have passed the bill
23:40to have a latest sunset provision, but they didn't do so.
23:45And now, when Republicans have regained majorities
23:48in both houses of Congress and the presidency,
23:50and they passed a one big beautiful bill,
23:52and in doing so, they refuse to extend Obamacare subsidies,
23:59and the government remaining open
24:01is just a basic funding bill that was passed by
24:05the House of Representatives that included
24:07no additional Republican priorities
24:10and no additional Democrat priorities,
24:12But the Democrats in the United States Senate said,
24:16no, we're not gonna pass it.
24:17And the Democrats in the US House of Representatives
24:19didn't want to vote for it.
24:21So you literally have Obamacare
24:23in the establishment of the subsidies originally,
24:25passed by Democrats.
24:26The expansion of the subsidies,
24:28increasing the amount of money that the taxpayer will pay
24:31per individual Obamacare participant,
24:35including the sunset date, all passed by Democrats.
24:38And now Democrats are saying,
24:40No, we don't like the bills that we passed previously.
24:42So until you Republicans agree to our additional policy concerns,
24:46other than basic funding in the government,
24:48then we're not going to agree to this basic government funding
24:50measure.
24:51That's literally where we are.
24:53So for the previous 20 days or so with the shutdown,
24:56you can hear an area of people of this conversation publicly.
25:00But now that the shutdown is lingered on,
25:03you're starting to see something change.
25:06I'll take you through the last three days very quickly.
25:09First Monday, CNN's.
25:16Yeah, that's right.
25:17This literally is the Democrats playing with Obamacare.
25:21Let me just tell you, and now,
25:22by some who may not know, this has been the plan all along.
25:25Obamacare was created to fail in the first place, by the way.
25:29It was never affordable, as the Washington Post now
25:31has conveniently decided to say some 20-some-a-year later.
25:33Welcome to the party, I'll know you're late.
25:35It was like, you go into the party,
25:36the DJ at Arden had stopped the music playing
25:37and the lights are all on, and there ain't nobody in the room.
25:40But you coming in, hey.
25:42We had to get down.
25:45That's what the watch in the post is.
25:47They not coming to the party late.
25:49The party literally has ended a long time ago
25:51and now they want pop and lock, you know?
25:54That's where they are.
25:55But Obamacare was created to fail in the first place
25:57because it was always meant to be a stop,
25:59an intermediary or an intermediate measure
26:02in route to single payer.
26:04That's what it meant.
26:05It's meant to be revealed.
26:08College, gee, I'm so surprised.
26:10You know what Bobby actually is unaffordable.
26:12So guess what we need to do now?
26:14That's why the Democrats are saying,
26:15we have to pay for, we need more subsidies.
26:20Or single payer, Marty, single payer is available.
26:25But now the tide is turning.
26:27Even CNN is getting in on the conversation.
26:29So Monday night, Jasmine Crockett from Texas, oh Lord.
26:35She was on CNN with Caitlin Collins.
26:39And they were having a conversation
26:41and Jasmine Crockett straight up lied
26:44right there on TV.
26:46Usually those kind of lies go unchecked.
26:48And you have a nod and, yeah, thank you,
26:50Congressman, for coming on the show.
26:52Not this time.
26:56Caitlin Collins said, wait a minute, old Jasmine.
26:58Jasi, not fresh.
27:04You said President Trump, his priority is on the ballroom.
27:08When Caroline Levitt said,
27:10President Trump's priority is on the ballroom,
27:13he wasn't talking about not paying attention
27:14to the shutdown.
27:16She was specifically asked a question
27:18about renovation plans.
27:21to which Caroline Levers said the president's priority concerning renovation plans is on the ballroom.
27:26You're lying, Jasmine. Listen to this for yourself and watch.
27:32Kaitlyn Collins, check.
27:35Order to flow from our first segment, rebuke Jasmine Crockett on live television.
27:41Listen to and watch clip number four, clip four. Go.
27:45Do you believe this will be the week that Congress comes to an agreement here?
27:49I have no idea.
27:52I mean, you started off talking about the fact that the president is in Japan.
27:57The president has time to do everything but what he needs to focus on.
28:01In fact, we heard the press secretary say that his main priority is the ballroom, the
28:06ballroom that no one asks for, the ballroom that requires him to destroy historic pieces
28:14of the White House.
28:15And so it doesn't seem like he's interested.
28:17And that context of the comment from Caroline Levitt,
28:21she was asked if the president was working
28:22on any other renovations when it came to the White House
28:25and she was saying his focus was the ballroom.
28:27But to your point about what the president said.
28:31You heard that?
28:32This is what I'm gonna play the clip from Caroline Levitt,
28:35what you can hear it for yourself.
28:37But how many times have you heard CNN check a Democrat
28:41elected official on national TV?
28:43That's the thing that caught me.
28:44I was like, whoa, I'm used to them lying.
28:48That ain't new, what's new is the Crescent News Network
28:54said, huh?
28:57You know that's not the context.
28:59Now here's the thing, and I'm gonna play the clip,
29:01man, this clock is moving fast today.
29:03If you have somebody that's so willing to lie like that,
29:05how do you trust them?
29:08Do you think Jasmine Crockett was unaware of the context
29:12that the president is focused on the ballroom renovations?
29:16Do you think she was unaware of the context
29:18that that statement was made in?
29:19Or do you think she's depending upon two things?
29:23One, that the Crescent News Network is her ace,
29:27Bunkoon, her home girl, a home boy.
29:30They're gonna support anything she does.
29:31And two, to depend upon the ignorance
29:33of the American people.
29:36So she can say, yeah, she, while people are facing
29:40or cutting off of their snap benefits,
29:42the president is focused on his billion,
29:45his $100 million ballroom renovations.
29:50Listen to, this is the clip of Caroline Levitt
29:53when she's asking that question,
29:54and it's clear that the statement
29:56that the president is focused on the ballroom
29:58was specifically in response to a question
30:00about his renovation priorities.
30:03Listen to it, watch it, clip five, go.
30:06Go ahead.
30:07Thank you, Caroline.
30:08Thank you.
30:09Thank you.
30:09Thank you.
30:10Thank you.
30:11Thank you.
30:12I'm going to the back. Sorry.
30:13In addition to the ballroom in the Rose Garden patio,
30:14is the president looking at any other renovations
30:16or significant kind of projects here at the White House?
30:19not to my knowledge, no, but he's a builder at heart clearly.
30:23And so his heart and his mind is always churning
30:26about how to improve things here on the White House grounds.
30:28But at this moment in time, of course,
30:30the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
30:36Can it be the more clear?
30:38At this present time, concerning White House renovations,
30:41the ballroom is the president's main priority.
30:43He wasn't talking about not being focused on the shutdown.
30:51But you see, people like Crocodile used to lying like that
30:53and not being checked.
30:57And so when the lies are administered unchecked,
31:00that's how you have friends and family members
31:01who run around, you problem some of you saying,
31:03you know, I can't trust the president
31:05and shut down, because just the other day,
31:07he said his priority is the ballroom.
31:11I don't know what you're talking about then, Bobby.
31:13You know, the president don't care about American people.
31:16Why you crazy?
31:18The president said his priority is the ballroom.
31:21I heard that McRocky said herself.
31:25She was lying, not only, why are you crying?
31:28Why are you lying the very next day?
31:34That wasn't the only one.
31:36Well, I gotta get this in.
31:37Do I have enough time?
31:39Ruben Gallego, I don't have enough time?
31:42Six, probably not.
31:45I'll set it up then.
31:47Look at them, the y'all just see Jeff and Bobby,
31:48look at me.
31:53They're looking like disappointed parents in the stands,
31:56watching their son trying to get the spelling bee
31:58and then they're in the final round
31:59and then they misspell able-crombie.
32:04I said, that's, y'all should have saw him bolt on cue.
32:07I'm saying, I have enough time there like this.
32:10I'll set it up.
32:11Cassie Hunt was interviewing Congressman Ruben Gaiago
32:15from Arizona.
32:17Ruben Gaiago was asked about the shutdown.
32:22He offers this week's sauce answer.
32:25Then Cassie Hunt leans in.
32:28Now, wait a minute, Ruben, I've been covering the White House
32:30for quite some time in the consistent position of all parties.
32:35In fact, the Democrats cried bloody murder
32:38if they thought Republicans would do anything like this
32:40because the conventional understanding
32:43is that the party's debate policy
32:46and the party in the House members,
32:48in the Congress members debate policy
32:52not doing a government shutdown,
32:54that's not the time to debate policy.
32:56The consistent function has always been.
33:01We get the basic fundamentals of the government
33:05running through appropriations, and then we debate policy
33:09in a circumstance where nobody is under the gun
33:11where the government being shut down.
33:13That has been the Democrats position up until now.
33:17How do you embrace this hypocrisy?
33:20Can't believe Cassie Hill asked that question.
33:23Not because I don't think it's an appropriate question.
33:25It certainly is an appropriate question,
33:27but I'm just not used to seeing the Crescent News Network
33:32ask those kind of things.
33:34And then if you thought it was just that one question,
33:38She leaned in on that.
33:40We'll get to that on the other side of the break,
33:42and we will open the phone lines as well.
33:44The question I wanna ask you is how are you processing
33:48this government shutdown, the current government shutdown?
33:51The number to call is 888-589-8840.
33:55That number is 888-589-8840.
33:59More Hamilton Corner when we get back from this break.
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36:17Back to the Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
36:22Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III here.
36:27We will open the phone lines this segment 888 589 8840 is the number to call 888 589 8840 is the number to call.
36:41I want to know where you are, how are you processing this government shutdown, but I want to continue as promised as a cause are lining up to get to this conversation between Cassie Hunt and Ruman Gallegos. It's amazing. Then I'll tell you just to let you know where we're going.
36:59Then as recently as last night, Jake Tapper couldn't believe it.
37:04Jake the snake.
37:06Jake the snake.
37:08I can't believe it.
37:10They lied to us about Biden's mental decline.
37:14You're like home alone as Jake the snake.
37:18Boy, that boy is a liar.
37:20He went in on another Congresswoman saying
37:22some of the same foolishness.
37:23Ruben Gallego's first.
37:25All right, listen to, getting this set it up.
37:29Ask about the current shutdown.
37:31Didn't Democrats used to add a buy by the notion
37:33we address policy issues outside of a shutdown context?
37:38That's not when we talk policy.
37:40When the shutdown context, we just talk about
37:43what's necessary to get the government reopened.
37:45What happened, Ruben?
37:47All right, listen to and watch.
37:48Clip number six, clip six, go.
37:51I think my question is this.
37:52I mean, I take your point about these millions of people.
37:55The cost of living is incredibly high.
37:57But also, Republicans control the White House.
38:01They control the Senate.
38:02they control the house and in the past democrats when republicans have tried to
38:06do something like this democrats have argued
38:08that the norms of our government should be
38:11that you negotiate policy outside of a government shutdown i mean i have i have
38:15over many years covering washington people said that over and over and over
38:19again and now i have neighbors in the d c area
38:22who are both employed by the federal government who are having to use food
38:25banks we are heading into thanksgiving
38:27why is it suddenly right to do it this way
38:30And to do it for this long, when it didn't use to be the right way in Democrats' view.
38:35Well, that's the easy answer.
38:37It's Donald Trump.
38:38You're talking about norms and the time of Donald Trump.
38:40It's also normal not for you to carry down the media.
38:42But Democrats have spent so much time arguing about how maintaining those norms is actually
38:46incredibly important in the face of Donald Trump.
38:48It's all out the window.
38:49It's all out the window, Casey.
38:50No.
38:51When you're doing that time with Donald Trump, this is the man that is like extorting people.
38:54He's literally breaking every rules.
38:57We're not going to go back and play by the norms when we know that what's online.
39:00on the line is 24 million people are going to have their insurance rates
39:04pre-unions doubled. That's a new thing by the way. And the fact is the president
39:08and everyone expects us to play by these war. When people are going to build our youth
39:13past though that these subsidies were going to expire? When we passed the bills
39:20and back in the day as part of the inflation reduction act of course we were
39:22trying to you know maybe hope for the best that this country and our Republican
39:26colleagues would understand that raising insurance rates on people is a bad thing.
39:31I'm sorry they don't see it that way, but it's also not my job to make their job easier.
39:35My job is to make sure that the premiums of 24 million Americans does not double overnight.
39:40And if it makes it harder on the Republicans that were putting them in a very difficult
39:44position, that they have to answer for that.
39:46And hopefully it actually comes with a good outcome, which is America is not having to
39:50pay higher premiums.
39:51Then that's good.
39:52But I'm not going to abide by old norms, especially when you're dealing with this presidency,
39:56this administration, and how the Republicans themselves have been acting.
40:00Now I play that whole thing because I wanted you guys to get the full context all right to show that I'm not taking anything
40:07In a context here. I'm not pulling the Jasmine Crockett
40:11But did you see his face for those of you who are able to watch the show did you see Ruma Gallego's his face?
40:17When he tried to say you know it premiums for health insurance have doubled by that have doubled and that is new when
40:24Cassie Hunt said didn't you Democrats set that up though? Didn't y'all pass the bill for these things to expire?
40:30Did you see his face?
40:31He was not expecting that kind of question.
40:35I want to play the clip again and watch
40:37for that part of the conversation.
40:39You can tell how surprised Ruma Gaiegos is.
40:43He's like, wait a minute, I thought I was on CNN.
40:45I didn't sign up for that.
40:47I was just complaining about the premiums increasing.
40:50I didn't want anybody to point out for the American people
40:52that we are causing the premiums to increase,
40:54that we passed legislation that included the sunset
40:57with expanded subsidies, that was all of these things
41:00that are happening that I'm trying to lie and say these are caused by the Republicans.
41:04We actually did this.
41:06So when Cassie Young says, did y'all do that?
41:08You saw his face?
41:09He went, uh, he's tampered.
41:12He's tampered.
41:13He's tampered.
41:14He's tampered.
41:15Then he got back to his talking point, not even addressing what she said.
41:18He had to admit, well, yeah, we did pass the bill and yeah.
41:23Oh, 24 million Americans.
41:27Watch it again.
41:28And I'm not going to play the whole thing, but I'm going to play it up to that point because
41:29I want you all to see up to the point to where she asked the question.
41:36Didn't you Democrats pass this bill and set these subsidies to expire?
41:41All right.
41:41So that is, let me get back on my rundown here.
41:44Clip six, clip six, go.
41:48When we pass the bills and back in the day as part of the inflation reduction,
41:51go back a little bit further before you get to that.
41:54It's a little bit because I want to, I want to set it up with her question.
41:57Breaking every rules.
41:58We're not going to go back and play by the norms when we know that what's online.
42:01What's on the line is 24 million people are going to have their insurance rates
42:05premiums doubled that's a new thing by the way and the fact is the president and everyone expects us to play by these
42:11But didn't Democrats kind of step out of the building?
42:13When people are going to build our new past though that these subsidies were going to expire?
42:19When we passed the bills and back in the day as part of the equation reduction
42:23I think of course we were trying to make hope for the best.
42:27That boy was shocked that boy was shocked. So just a brief recap dude didn't the Democrats say the norm is
42:34Policy after the government is shut down.
42:38What's this response to that question?
42:39We hate Donald Trump.
42:41Orange Man Bad, there's no substantive response.
42:43You know what, the norms are only normals
42:45as long as we say they're normal.
42:46When we don't like them being normal,
42:48we don't want them to be normal anymore.
42:49So yeah, though, we usually don't want to debate policy
42:52during a shutdown.
42:53We're going to debate policy during this shutdown
42:56because I have no other answer other than
42:58Trump-Dorainzmann-Drum, that's my only response.
43:02That's like when a parent has a child,
43:05Son, why did you jump in the water puddle because because what because
43:13Son because not answer. Uh-huh answer
43:17Because no you responded, but that's not an answer
43:23So why are you breaking norms now Trump?
43:25Okay, and no because Trump
43:28Well, why well health insurance up to this going health insurance premiums double didn't y'all do that um
43:3624 million man go sit down somewhere
43:39Guys, this is very interesting. I'll give you one more than we'll get to the phone lines
43:43Jake Tapper.
43:44Can't believe it.
43:45Jake the Snake.
43:47He took on a Congresswoman from New Mexico.
43:51Couldn't believe it.
43:53Jake the Snake.
43:54Conversely, with Melanie Stansberry from New Mexico,
43:57he straight upset.
43:58Well, didn't the Democrats cause this shutdown?
44:00She tried to say it.
44:01No, he didn't.
44:02Jake says, yes, you did.
44:03Listen to and watch clip three, clip three, go.
44:06Share the Democratic senators from New Mexico,
44:08your home state vote to open the government
44:10so that these snap funds are not at risk.
44:14Let me be clear. The administration is choosing to starve American children with money that they already have appropriate.
44:27I'm not applauding their tactics. This is a choice by the White House.
44:34This is also a choice by Senate Democrats to not vote to open the government.
44:40I understand why they're doing it.
44:42They're doing it because they want Medicaid funds restored.
44:44They're doing it because they want Obamacare premiums
44:48to be extended past the end of the year.
44:50I understand the reasoning.
44:51Let me just be clear.
44:53The money for contingency plans is sitting there.
44:56That is why the states are suing.
44:58The White House is withholding funds
45:00for children to have food.
45:01Two to three weeks worth of staff funds.
45:02Yeah.
45:03It may not be a big deal to you,
45:05but let's say that's where the grandparents,
45:07for grants and events.
45:09the
45:11children.
45:12My point is that it's a short-term solution.
45:13It's a short-term.
45:14It's a short-term.
45:15At the end of the day, people need to be able to feed their families.
45:19And Saturday is when those funds run out.
45:21And we are fighting to get that vaccine.
45:23Why not ask the Senate Democrats from New Mexico to vote to open the government?
45:28Why not get them to vote to open the government?
45:31Why not get them to open the government?
45:34You know, and as is this happening, you know, I am mindful of the fact that they are real
45:38people that are being impacted by this, you know, which is why it's so egregious what's
45:45happening here because it's literally paying politics.
45:48These guys are attempting and y'all know I'm an equal to opportunity truth teller.
45:52If the Republicans are doing stuff that's messed up, I'm going to call it out.
45:57But in this, in this instance, this literally is a Democrat shutdown.
46:01You had a clean CR pass in the house and you guys know I don't like CRs.
46:06But a shutdown is not the time to debate policy.
46:08See, and here's the thing, Obama said it,
46:11elections have consequences.
46:12You have Republican majorities in the House and Senate,
46:14even though there's slim majorities,
46:16more slim in the House than the Senate,
46:18in terms of ratio, but you can't get mad
46:21that the big, beautiful bill was passed
46:22and you, jokers, when you had the authority,
46:24you set the Obamacare expanded subsidies to expire.
46:28So the doubling premiums are what you have caused.
46:32That's, you've caused it.
46:36But there are real people that are being impacted by this.
46:41And so as usual, we should be as Americans, that if you have neighbors that are impacted
46:46by this, they have, you know, reduction in funds or whatever.
46:50And I'm not talking about people that are abusing the social welfare system.
46:55People that say my lifestyle is EBT, in their able-bodied people, they're in their right
47:00minds, they're just lazy.
47:01I'm not talking about that.
47:02I'm talking about military service members and others that are diligent and effective neighbors
47:09and citizens, but they're caught in the cross here, so to speak, of this political quagmire.
47:16To the phone lines, we go, we'll start in Ohio, where Mark is on the line.
47:19Mark, thank you for calling the Hamilton Corner.
47:21Welcome to the program.
47:22Thank you very much for having me on.
47:25I greatly appreciate it.
47:28And I enjoy listening, and it's an honor to be on.
47:33I am a father of six.
47:36I am married with six kids, single family income.
47:41And honestly, this is affecting me
47:46because we have to get our food with our food.
47:53My wife is like going crazy.
47:57She's a saint.
48:02I have to admit, you know, she's at home dealing with kids.
48:06They're in Catholic school, except for the two youngers,
48:10but I mean, she has to deal with them on a regular.
48:15And the way that I see it, you know,
48:19they need to put up or shut up, to be honest with you.
48:23And if I can't get my, you know, what I might need,
48:29what I might need, then maybe they shouldn't get what they need.
48:33And I believe in term limits as well.
48:35Quick question, Mark.
48:37Are you a member of a local church where you are?
48:40And does your church know what you guys are facing?
48:43Yeah, yeah.
48:44We are.
48:45And my wife has been researching some food banks
48:49that can be helpful.
48:51And we definitely have friends, actually,
48:56I had told my boss at work what's going on and she did a little bit of help with it,
49:04but it's difficult.
49:07And I'm probably a little better off than some, but honestly, I know.
49:19And as soon as I can get back to where I don't need it,
49:23then it's going back to people who do.
49:27Mark, thank you for your calling your comments.
49:28I pray to the Lord meet you in this difficult time.
49:31And also I would wholeheartedly encourage you
49:33to lean on your local family for believers.
49:35That's what the church is there for.
49:37That's what I would encourage for those
49:38who I am close to as well,
49:40to be able to navigate this quagmire
49:43that is a temporary circumstance.
49:45We'll go next to Texas where Jerry is on the line.
49:47Jerry, thank you for calling the Hamilton Corner.
49:49Go right ahead.
49:51Yeah, two things real quick.
49:53One is I'm affected as well.
49:54I'm a retired military veteran.
49:56And so come, you know, whenever things
49:58is ended, no VA benefits, 60%, you know, disability, no retirement
50:04benefit until they get this figured out.
50:06I've been blessed not to have to rely solely on that.
50:09I do have other income coming in.
50:11We are blessed in many ways.
50:12Again, we're being affected.
50:14However, the problem in my opinion is that the government schools don't educate the children
50:19they indoctrinate in because the people that listen and understand government that were homeschooled
50:25or have good parents that are the cycle and know that the Democrats aren't voting to end
50:31the stupid filibuster.
50:32So they say it's the Republicans because they won't come to the table, but the Democrats won't
50:36vote to end the filibuster or culture or whatever the term is so that they can go and vote
50:41on it.
50:42the problem. You're getting a government school in Dr.
50:47Nation through what people call public school and I don't even
50:50use the term. I wish AFR would use government school more
50:53often. Thank you. I had to be right there. You can hear the
50:56disrespectful music to explain what Jerry is saying. He's
50:59absolutely right. The House plastic, past the clean CR,
51:02there are 53 Republicans in the Senate. The Senate needs 60
51:05votes to invoke cloture so that the Senate can vote on the CR that
51:09the House passed. So the Republicans literally only need four or five, no, seven, you need
51:17seven Democrats to join them. You are resized at four or five because there already been
51:21two Democrats. There are already two Democrats who said they'll vote with Republicans to pass
51:26the clean CR. So you really only need like about five more Democrats to join the Republicans
51:31to pass the bill. So when this is described as a Democrat shutdown, that literally is
51:36what it is. Don't let anybody tell you anything otherwise that is exactly what this is.
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