March 17, 2026 · 50:47

The SAVE America Act is now on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Let your Senator know where you stand and what you require.

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0:00 - 15:00. Psalm 28:7-8. The LORD is our strength and shield. 15:00 - 31:00. The SAVE America Act is now on the floor of the U.S. Senate. Let your Senator know where you stand and what you require. 31:00 - 48:00. There is a demoralization effort afoot. Discernment will empower destruction of this wicked scheme. | 1-800-326-4543 ext. 345 To donate call: 877-616-2396

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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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0:31Good evening everyone.
0:34Welcome to the Hamilton Corner here on American Family Radio.
0:37I'm your host Abraham Hamilton, the third joined by the corner contingent right across
0:42from me.
0:43A rather grumpy Mr. Bobby, Rosa, who is asking me, well, hey, if they can do that, why don't
0:52they do it?
0:54I gotta have more combat.
0:55Gotta have it.
0:56Gotta have it.
0:57in the screening room, producers extraordinaire,
1:00often imitate and never duplicated the real Jay Mack.
1:03Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jeff McIntosh,
1:05and we were ready to rock and roll
1:07with today's edition of the program.
1:09Did I give you the,
1:12Bobby Errosa?
1:15I'm trying to put my smiley face up.
1:17Oh, he's ungrumfying, ladies,
1:19and as we speak, just like a bear comes out of
1:21the hibernation.
1:24Mr. Errosa is ungrumfying before my very eyes.
1:28At this very moment, many of you, if not most of you,
1:31are making your transition from your part-time jobs
1:33where you generate an income to your full-time jobs
1:37where you cultivate an outcome.
1:38And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so
1:41with intentionality, understanding the primacy
1:43that God places on family.
1:47There are lots of things happening.
1:48I mean, Joe Kent offered his resignation
1:53as the Director for the Office of Counterterrorism today.
1:58The Save Act is on the floor in the Senate
2:01with the debate opening for the bill
2:07and I'll kind of explain some of the technical details there.
2:12So what's going on there, how it works,
2:13how do you invoke cloture and what's going on with that?
2:16But just to say it right out of the gate,
2:18the opening of debate on the legislation,
2:20it's not nearly the conclusion of the matter.
2:23And we'll get into that in a moment as well.
2:26and color me shocked.
2:29But did you all see the, the Katari journalistic mouthpiece
2:37that is Al Jazeera.
2:39And I don't know how many people want to know this,
2:41but they're funded by Qatar.
2:44They allowed an op-ed to be published
2:47on their, in their publication supporting the US
2:52operation in Iran.
2:55Didn't see that one coming.
2:58Did not see that one coming.
3:00And even took on the idea that, you know,
3:02the popular narrative around this is one thing,
3:04but what I'm witnessing, and I'm in Doha,
3:07I'm witnessing a strategic dismantling
3:11of a threatening regime.
3:14Didn't add that on today's bingo card, you know?
3:19But before we get into all of that,
3:20and those things are clearly important,
3:25they're not more important than what goes on
3:28in your home and in my home, they're not guys,
3:30they're not, they're not.
3:34Much of what has befall in our country
3:37is a corresponding reality to what has been,
3:42in many instances, a failure for us to make disciples
3:45starting right in our own homes.
3:47And this is not a time to cry over spilled milk,
3:50so to speak.
3:51I can't tell you the number of people
3:52that I come across who tell me,
3:54everybody didn't realize I was supposed
3:55to be making disciples in home.
3:57I didn't even realize that.
3:59Or they'll tell me, I never thought about
4:01what God required of me.
4:02I just did what was normal for us.
4:08And I get that, but the purpose of my admonition
4:11of the full-time job versus the part-time job
4:15is to reverse that trend.
4:17And I'm grateful that I get notes and things
4:20that people are saying, man, hey, I see it, I see it.
4:22God has opened my eyes to it.
4:23Thank you for continuing to press that message
4:25because now I see it.
4:27I am grateful for that, but we must continue, guys,
4:30to press it so that every joint supplies.
4:35And if you stand back and you see the palpable,
4:41prevalent ignorance that's in our country,
4:43and I don't mean that as a majority,
4:44I mean people literally do not know.
4:49It should place fire on the stove
4:55to be about our father's business in our day and our time.
4:59You know, I saw a thing just earlier today when a girl said,
5:03Yeah, yeah, my friend was overseas.
5:05He was in Connecticut.
5:09Oversees in Connecticut.
5:11That was a person speaking from the United States of America
5:13saying, yeah, my friend was overseas in Connecticut.
5:17All right, Connecticut overseas.
5:23But guys, that's what's happening.
5:24And I understand it.
5:26And whenever we're tempted to say,
5:27well, these young people don't know anything,
5:29don't forget all of these young people
5:30come from somebody's homes.
5:33But if we would take it upon ourselves to respond
5:37to a God requires of us, each one of us,
5:40home by home, family by family,
5:42neighborhood by neighborhood,
5:43man we could see the Lord turn the tide in our country.
5:46And as I said yesterday, and today we're gonna talk quite
5:49a bit in relationship to the conversation yesterday
5:52from James 4 about resisting the devil
5:55and he having no obligation but to flee
5:58as he is, as we antheistomy, the devil, right?
6:03Instead of looking at the macro scale only,
6:05man let's live locally.
6:09I may not be able to go to every state in the union,
6:12but I can start in my home.
6:15I can back down the hatches at home.
6:16I can be faithful where I am.
6:18I can bloom where I'm planted.
6:21We all can bloom where we are planted.
6:23In fact, we must bloom where we're planted.
6:26To the word of God, we go Psalm 28.
6:29Psalm 28 is where we're gonna begin.
6:31If you are in a place where you're not driving,
6:34don't do this if you're driving,
6:35but if you're not driving,
6:37if you're taking notes, you may wanna write down
6:39cross-reference because the corresponding cross-reference to Psalm 28 is 2 Samuel chapter 15.
6:46And what do we have in 2 Samuel chapter 15? This is when Absalom's conspiracy comes to fruition
6:53and David ends up having to flee for his life. And Psalm 28 is written as David is fleeing from
7:00Absalom. And that context is important because it will underscore what is being said in this Psalm
7:07that David has penned, which is actually a prayer to Yahweh. And in Psalm 28 verses 7 and 8, David says this,
7:17the Lord is my strength and my shield. In him, my heart trusts and I am helped and my heart exalts.
7:30And with my song, I give thanks to him. The Lord is the strength of his people.
7:37He is the saving refuge of his anointed.
7:42I'm bringing that to your attention guys,
7:46because the life of a Christ follower is one
7:51that inevitably requires us to rely upon the Lord's strength.
7:59Following Messiah is not a life lived on flowery beds of ease.
8:04There will be, not maybe, there will be, various times and seasons where we are required to do hard things,
8:13to do things that are exceedingly challenging and difficult.
8:19The thing that we must become fully persuaded of is God summons us to these moments, not to rely upon our own strength.
8:27As we alluded to yesterday that we wrestle not merely against flesh and blood, God told us that.
8:33He features chapter 6, the Lord told us that we don't wrestle merely, merely against flesh and blood.
8:38So if we recognize that, why will we try to engage merely with flesh and blood?
8:48The Lord's strength is a necessary tool.
8:54And God knows us so well, we have the articulation in Acts chapter 1.
9:00that the maximum efficacy of being indwelled by the Spirit of God is so that we can function
9:08as God calls us to.
9:11That we're not filled with God's Spirit, so we can sit around and, you know, pontificate
9:16about being filled with the Spirit.
9:18We're filled with God's Spirit to enable us to obey what God calls us to, to execute what
9:23God calls us to.
9:25So developing the muscle memory, if you will, the life habit, if you will, of relying upon
9:32drawing upon, utilizing the Lord's strength is foundation and
9:38necessary for every single believer. One of the things that it
9:43has to include is our ability to discern. And I'm going to get
9:48to this a little bit more in his next segment, but a lot of
9:50things that's happening, you know, with these podcasters doing
9:53their keyboard, warrior, and in calling each other names and
9:57all this kind of stuff, that you get the same jokers in person,
10:01Man, they wouldn't bust a grape in the fruit fight.
10:05But behind the keyboard, oh man,
10:08they talking like the Hercules, the Incredible Hulk,
10:11and Samson all wrapped up in one.
10:14And we don't realize is that there is a rock through.
10:18Remember when we talked about old Jonah Dab?
10:21Old Jonah Dab is behind the scenes
10:23when the whole Amnon Tamar phenomenon occurred.
10:27Go back and read that account.
10:28Jonah Dab, Jonah Dab is the one who gave Amnon
10:32wicked skiing that resulted in rape. Then Jonah Dab was on the other side agitating for the
10:40rape to end up in murder, to where Amnon is then murdered. Jonah Dab, throwing the rock
10:48and hiding his hand. And in this instance I'm using Jonah Dab as a standing for the devil.
10:55I said yesterday, the momentum that the Lord was moving our nation toward, as the gospel
11:01was proclaimed to one of the largest audiences in the history of the world at Charlie Kurtz
11:05funeral and immediately after that, you have all of this bickering and this partisan, all
11:12this kind of stuff.
11:13And even a lot of Christians getting wrapped up in it saying, man, zoom out, zoom out.
11:23It was not being witnessed is that the gospel imperative is being submerged by all of this
11:32bickering.
11:35bickering. And the effort is meant to demoralize, to demoralize the robust Christian witness and to
11:43get people who may be inclined to utilize the biblical worldview as it pertains to civic engagement
11:48to get them to throw in the tower. See, all this is lost. That's not what God would have us to do,
11:54but the strength of the Lord is required to develop the type of discernment that we need
11:58to be able to tune out what needs to be tuned out. In the United States of America, we have the first
12:05There's amendment.
12:06The freedom, the freedom of speech is a blessing that God has allowed us to be, allowed us to
12:11have that is an intrinsic, inalienable right, I would articulate that government exists
12:18to protect.
12:19And through the exchange of ideas, we have the capacity to have the bad ideas fall by the
12:25wayside and the cream of the crop ideas come to the top.
12:32But it's not an occasion.
12:33It's not an occasion to be demoralized and to be intimidated away from standing flat footed,
12:41ten toes down in commitment to the gospel and proclaiming the gospel and making disciples
12:45and having the real-time external application of our biblical worldview to the freedom that
12:50we get to enjoy and participating in civic engagement.
12:53But you like these keyboard warriors and talking heads calls you to look sideways at your neighbor
13:01and make assumptions and not even engage.
13:05brothers and sisters, the Lord is our strength. The Lord is our
13:09strength. The Lord is our shield in Him, our hearts trust. And as a
13:17result, we are enabled in light of that, my heart exalts one of
13:26the things we can use to check ourselves as to what's going on.
13:28Have we found anything to express gratitude and worship the
13:31Lord for today? Or have we been so bogged down with the news of
13:37of the day and the political picker ring and all this other kind of stuff.
13:40You haven't stopped to think, wait a minute, I haven't even expressed any gratitude.
13:45I haven't found anything to express Thanksgiving for.
13:54Even in the midst of the Babylonian exile, this is what we get our hymn, greatest our
13:58faithfulness from, the book of lamentations, Jeremiah in the midst of the things he prophesied
14:02that would happen and that he's witnessing them happening and the carnage is unfolding
14:07around him, but then he's able to stand and say,
14:10great is your faithfulness.
14:16Guys, it's high time for the body of Christ to be
14:18the body of Christ.
14:19You've heard me say before, the idea of us going to church
14:23really is a misnomer.
14:24When I suppose to go to something where it's supposed to be,
14:27we are called to be the church.
14:29And the only way we can do that effectively is by relying
14:32on the strength of our Lord.
14:34Romans 12 explains plainly as we resist the temptation
14:38to be conformed to this world.
14:41The corresponding reality is that we are transformed by the consistent and continual renewing our minds.
14:47And as our minds are renewed continually, our capacity for discernment is sharpened.
14:52Not merely distinguishing right from wrong as Charles Spurgeon said, but distinguishing right from almost right.
14:57A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
15:03My encouragement and challenge to every single listener is that you pray and ask the Lord the question,
15:09Lord, what do you want me to do?
15:11You know, that's the prayer that Paul prayed right after he received Christ
15:15and put his faith in the Lord on the road to Damascus.
15:18He asked the question, Lord, what do you want me to do?
15:22And as it relates to following and serving the Lord, that's a wise question
15:25to pray actually every single day.
15:27It's a good prayer and a question to ask the Lord every day.
15:30Lord, what do you want me to do?
15:32And as it relates to being involved in this important cause of standing for life
15:38and standing against the tragedy of abortion,
15:40The question and prayer is a wise one to pray Lord,
15:43what do you want me to do?
15:45There are many that God would have them
15:46to become faithful intercessors who pray every day.
15:50Lots of spiritual warfare happens around every pregnancy clinic
15:54and lots of spiritual warfare happens
15:56around abortion clinics as well.
16:04Shiting light into the darkness,
16:07this is the Hamilton Corner, an American family radio.
16:11Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
16:13The third here, I was gonna start
16:17with the Joe Kent situation, which is a pretty big deal.
16:23It's a pretty big deal.
16:25But before I get there, I wanna talk a little bit
16:27about the Save Act, and more specifically,
16:31the procedural reality says that's happening,
16:34because if you'll recall at first,
16:37Senator John Thune was not too enthused.
16:43Enthused, see what I did there.
16:45He's not enthused.
16:47Yeah, he went in thunes to bring the Save America Act to the floor, which the House of Representatives
16:53have now voted on at least three times to pass.
16:57Each time the measure has died in the Senate.
17:01He must not forget Senator John Thune was and is a Mitch McConnell disciple when he became
17:08the Senate Majority Leader.
17:10Some of you may recall, AFA came out against him to become the Senate Majority Leader, and
17:15this is part of the reason why.
17:18Because we knew that well he was and is a McConnell disciple,
17:22so his handling of the Senate will be pretty much identical
17:27to what Mitch McConnell would do.
17:30But in spite of Thune's initial response to it,
17:35thanks to listeners like you contacting your senators,
17:38and I'm gonna tell you now I'm gonna ask you
17:39to contact them again because though people wanna say
17:42the numbers don't look good,
17:43you have all this kind of stuff,
17:45I'm gonna just say what I've said before,
17:46if you have Republican majorities,
17:48understand they're very slim in the House of Representatives,
17:50but remember the say back past the House, three times,
17:54at least three times.
17:55No, the hold of has been in the Senate,
17:57and you have a 53 to 47 majority in the Senate.
18:01Now 53 is not a filibuster proof, 61 votes,
18:05or 60 votes I should say in the Senate,
18:08but it is a 53 to 47 majority, all right?
18:13A 53 to 47 majority is enough to change Senate rules as needed.
18:19I've previously gone with you guys through the history of the filibuster, how every time
18:23it's changed, it's been changed with a simple majority of Democrat senators when they did
18:28not have a filibuster-proof majority.
18:31The reason the way we got to the 60 threshold number is because the Democrats changed it,
18:36because previously the threshold was two-thirds 66 votes.
18:40The Democrats didn't have 66 votes.
18:42At the time, so they changed the threshold to 60 votes.
18:49Today, Senator Thune introduced what is expected
18:53to be a marathon fight in the Senate
18:57over the Save America Act.
18:59You'll recall Senator Chuck E. Duck Schumer,
19:01the Senate minority leader,
19:04has said the Democrats will not vote,
19:06not one Democrat will vote for the Save America Act
19:09because it is, stop me if you've heard this before,
19:12Jim Crow 2.0.
19:17And I shared righty on this program
19:19when he explained his reasoning for it,
19:21he said, well, you know, it's gonna hurt minorities,
19:24you know, because minority women don't know how to change
19:27their like drivers licenses and IDs after they get married.
19:30So they won't be able to vote to which we,
19:34that's a flat lie.
19:35That is the consistent Democrat response
19:41when they really, I don't have any arguments to oppose this,
19:44I'm going to just throw out what I hope is going to grow legs and run once I say it.
19:51But who needs the Democrats to oppose it with ridiculous logic when you have a small spattering
19:58of non conservative Republicans?
20:08So I want to explain some of the technical reality.
20:10So the opening of debate on the measure is a routine thing.
20:15Senator soon led that today.
20:18But the issue is when a, when debate has been opened on a bill, Senate rules allow senators
20:23to filibuster a bill which would prevent it from coming to a final vote on the merits of
20:29the measure.
20:31The elimination of debate after debates have all taken place.
20:34Determination of debates is what is called invoking cloture.
20:40So you can move to vote on the bill on, on the merits.
20:45Now just being, having a bill brought to the floor is a, is a significant step that wouldn't
20:49happened if you didn't contact your senators and tell them what you need to do.
20:55Tell them what you wanted them to do, which I'm going to ask you to do again.
20:59Contact your senators and demand of them a vote on the record for the Save America Act
21:06on the merits, not just a cloture vote, but a vote on the merits.
21:10All right.
21:12It may seem like the numbers are not there and I explained why you're right because right
21:16right now, you already had, you know, one Senator, a Republican Senator, Lisa Murkowski,
21:22you know, who's pro abortion, Lisa Murkowski, who opposed even starting debate on the bill
21:31and Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina didn't vote one way or the other.
21:37So to all my North Carolina listeners, you think you want to give Tom Tillis a little
21:42buzzy buzz?
21:43Your time, I heard you didn't want to, you didn't vote to start debate on a bill that
21:49simply will require American citizens to be the only ones allowed to vote in U.S. elections.
21:55You have to be a citizen to register and you have to prove your identity when you vote.
22:03Simple, easy peasy.
22:04Now in order to facilitate getting to a vote on the merits on this, Senator Mike Lee and
22:08others have said, why don't we amend the rules for the filibuster to require the filibuster
22:13to once again be a talking filibuster.
22:16Some of you may recall from, you know,
22:17Mr. Smith goes to Washington.
22:19The whole idea of the filibuster was if you want to prohibit
22:22a vote on the merits or to say it more specifically
22:24to continue debate on the bill,
22:25you actually have to be on the floor debating,
22:28which means you have to be up on your feet
22:31at the lectern speaking about the bill.
22:37Because that's the standards right now.
22:39The senators could just send a little notey note,
22:41say, by the way, I have filibusted this bill
22:43and then they can go wherever.
22:46And you never get the bill on the measure, on the merits.
22:50So far, the Senate rules have not been adjusted,
22:54but here's the thing, and this is just an idea.
22:57I'm not saying you have to take my idea,
22:58but because you have a 53 to 47 majority,
23:00and because you can change Senate rules
23:02with a simple majority of senators,
23:03why not impose a talking filibuster for this bill only?
23:10Do you realize they can do that?
23:12In fact, the republic is an assentant, they can actually lower the threshold to 53 votes
23:18if they wanted to right now.
23:20They're not going to do that, but they could.
23:23And I say that just so you can be armed with information when you call your senators because
23:26they're going to try to rope a dope you with all kinds of big words and all kinds of a Senate
23:31rule gobblegook and Robert's Rules of Orders record and simply put their lying if they say
23:36that.
23:37Because all that's required to change the rules is a simple majority.
23:42And guess what?
23:43I said to you guys before and there, they could actually change the threshold to 53 votes for now
23:49and then put it back to 60 votes if they wanted to. Again, they're not going to do that and I'm not
23:55recommending them to do that, but I just want you to know all of the options that they have available
24:00to them. And I'll come again to my initial point, what good is a Republican party? If you can't even get
24:07a majority of Republicans to pass a bill that will require a simple citizenship to vote
24:11to vote and proof of ID to vote.
24:16The expectations are they're gonna be efforts
24:18to add all kinds of amendments to the bill.
24:21They're gonna try to do some other things to the bill.
24:25And when you contact your senators,
24:27you just tell them very plainly,
24:28man, I'm interested in US citizens alone being allowed
24:31to vote and ID being required when people vote
24:35in American federal elections, period.
24:36That's all it is.
24:37We don't need to add all of this stuff to the bill.
24:42We just need to pass a measure to protect American citizens, franchise to vote from the scores
24:51of illegal aliens who have been allowed into our country.
24:55That's it.
24:57Shouldn't be that hard.
24:58We ran the numbers for you before.
25:0076% of Democrat voters support this.
25:0280 plus percent of Republican voters support this.
25:05The percentage of voters who support it increases every year.
25:10The thing that's stopping it are the elected officials, which should cause you to begin
25:15ask, huh, why do they want to make sure it's just American citizens that can vote in American
25:24elections? This should be an easy pass guys. And here's the other thing, even if the Republicans
25:32think that the vote won't pass, force the senators to put their vote on record, because this
25:39is the rope that they do guys, so you know, this is not a game is played. You have a bill,
25:43say, I have a bill passed that that Bobby can no longer wear
25:47a F.A. hats in studio, right? That's the bill, right? But it's
25:51presented in the Senate, you see. And so what do we do? We hide
25:56behind the cloture vote, the in debate vote, the filibuster, and
26:03what ends up happening? Let's say in this instance, hypothetically,
26:05the Republicans, they know their voters wouldn't their constituents
26:09wouldn't support Bobby being prohibited from wearing his AFA
26:13hat in studio. But they don't want Bobby to wear his AFA hat in
26:16studio. You see, because they want to support all kind of networks. They want to support NPR
26:21and they want to support all these others. But they also want to campaign is saying, man,
26:27we want people to be able to wear the air, pay for anywhere, wherever they go. So how do
26:30they do that? What they do is hide behind the cloture vote. You see, so ends up happening
26:40is before you get to the bill on the merits, can Bobby wear his hat or not wear his hat,
26:45You have a procedural vote on cloture and it takes 60 votes to invoke cloture, which means
26:52to terminate debate and move on to vote on the bill on the merits.
26:56So you have several less in this instance, Republicans who won't vote during the cloture
27:01vote.
27:02Kind of like Tom Tillis did today, he didn't vote to open debate on the Save America Act.
27:09So you have some Republicans who won't vote for it.
27:12And then you have others who will vote for it because they really want Bobby to wear his
27:15hats.
27:16You have the Democrats had a post and by gosh, you know what?
27:20We only had 52 votes in favor of invoking cloture on Bobby's AFA hat legislation.
27:27So then some of the same senators who didn't vote in favor of Bobby wearing his hat to
27:31vote cloture, they'll go home and say, can you believe Washington is working against us?
27:36You understand what I'm saying?
27:37Washington is working, you can't get anything done in Washington.
27:39It's hopeless, gridlock.
27:40We can't get anything accomplished.
27:42And there's no record, there's no record of the vote acting on the merits as to whether
27:46or not Bobby can wear his hat.
27:48There's no record of that.
27:50All you, when you go to try to look it up, all you see is cloture votes.
27:53And if you don't know how the process works, you would be deceived into thinking, well, I
27:57have, I have a rep fighting for me in DC.
28:00When truth, in truth, in truth, there is a reality called a uni party.
28:07You see how the game is playing?
28:11So don't let them play it on, on, on this one.
28:13If there is, if there is not, if there is something that should be a easy haul over the
28:21finish line, surely, surely it is.
28:26We just need to make sure it's only American citizens as a vote in federal elections.
28:30Don't you think?
28:33Some ask, well, how do they get the one big beautiful bill passed?
28:36They use a procedure called reconciliation.
28:38What is reconciliation for financial, financial measures?
28:41The Senate rules.
28:43Here we go.
28:44rules, the same Senate rules I'm talking about that Governor Philip Buster, the Senate rules
28:48allows US senators once annually during each Congress, during each Congress for the senators
28:56to vote on one bill that has to do with financial matters that doesn't require the 60-vote
29:02threshold.
29:03Y'all want to know how they came up with that?
29:06It was a Senate rule, a Senate rule passed by a simple majority of the senators.
29:14saying, why can't you use the Senate rules to do what the American people want?
29:22And it's one of the things that's why I keep saying this,
29:25they want to have a demoralized populace. They want people to throw up their hands and say,
29:29ah, see, man, it's hopeless because the more disengaged the American people are, the easier it is
29:44for a chicanery to go forward. Like, here's a perfect example. Remember all of the energy and
29:49firm around those, remember that?
29:51Somebody don't want to tell me how many bills have been passed to codify the cuts to the
29:56federal budget from what those discovered.
30:00It's enough to make you sick.
30:05But in this instance is vitally important, that you refuse to disengage.
30:11You refuse to disengage.
30:12Let your senators know where you stand and what you require.
30:18Simple as that.
30:21So debate has opened on the measure.
30:26This is one thing that needs to be passed.
30:30All right.
30:31I'm going to move on.
30:34So today I will explain a little bit of this information.
30:38So Joe Kent announces resignation today from his position as the director of the National
30:45Counterterrorism Center.
30:48That is a position that works within the office of the director of national intelligence.
30:52So it's an intelligence position.
30:55All right.
30:56is a military veteran, a former Army Green Barre, Green Barre CIA paramilitary officer,
31:04who's at 11 combat deployments. I'm thankful, the American people are thankful for his service,
31:10but just because you have been a veteran, that doesn't give you a pass on everything you want to do going forward.
31:16His first wife, and these people asking me, is he married to a woman who's hostile? Is he,
31:23He had a wife before who was killed in combat.
31:28At 35 years old, she was killed by ISIS.
31:31All right.
31:35He's since remarried.
31:37And his current wife is not his former wife.
31:39All right.
31:42Joe Kent ran for Congress in 2022.
31:46And just I posted something about this on my social media feed.
31:50He ran in the Republican primary
31:52and Washington state against my friend, Heidi St. John.
31:54heard her on this show before. And he beat Heidi in the primary. And Joe Kent then went on to lose
32:06in the general election and then after that President Trump tapped in for this position
32:13in the office of the Director of National Intelligence. He announced his resignation
32:20today in what he said was that it was in protest of the Iran-Iran War.
32:30But I want to show you some things that
32:32today is seemingly contradicting what Joe Kent has said in 2016 and 2020.
32:39And then also is his resignation truly
32:43an honest opposition to the conflict in Iran or something else happening?
32:51We'll get into that in this next segment.
34:00Gentai Israel. This is David Wheaton, host of the Christian
34:04World View. Hostility toward the Jews and Israel has infected many in the West. The political
34:10and theological left are characterized by it. But the right is succumbing as well. Notable
34:16influencers like Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Nick Fuentes, along with some pastors,
34:22deride Israel asserting the modern day people in Israel aren't Jews. The Jews control America,
34:28the U.S. does Israel's bidding. And Israel is a genocidal oppressor. Even if there were
34:34truth to these deformations, it still wouldn't nullify God's unbreakable promise in Scripture.
34:41God has not rejected His people has He may it never be.
34:46Here are most recent programs on this topic at TheChristianWorldView.org and then tune in
34:51this weekend for part 2.
34:53Listen to The Christian World View with David Wheaton, Saturday mornings at 8th Central on American
34:58Family Radio.
34:59A Hamilton Quarter podcast and one-minute common terrors are available at EFR.net back to the
35:10Hamilton Corner on American Family Radio.
35:15Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton the third here.
35:21As I've shared a Heidi St. John's post on my book of faces feed for the Hamilton Corner,
35:29explains that and and this problem will help you process Joe Kint's resignation
35:34letter that he published that he posted publicly on X but apparently Joe Kint is
35:43friends with Tucker Carlson so that that might aid you Heidi shared that in her
35:55primary campaign against Joe Kint Tucker Carlson would have Joe Kint on the air
35:59all the time and when her campaign reached out for equal time, um, uh, uh, uh, Tucker
36:06Crossam refused to have her on anytime at all.
36:10Did not allow one at all.
36:11And so, uh, because he had an internet streaming show and the internet is not
36:14governed by FCC regulations that he had no obligation to allow Heidi St.
36:20John onto his show, though he had Joe Kent on over and over and over and over again.
36:24kind of like when CBS and yes, Colbert wanted to have James
36:31Tallarico on but did not want to have Jasmine Crockett on what did he do?
36:35He refused to air the show on the television network and put it where?
36:39On the internet on YouTube.
36:44All right.
36:45Getting into a little bit of his letter.
36:46So in his letter, Joe Kent says the reason for his resignation was
36:53until, well, let me go back to the beginning.
36:54I'm not going to read the whole letter because it's a long letter, but he included in this
36:59letter, quote, I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran.
37:06Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation.
37:09And it's clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American
37:15lobby.
37:16Quote, high ranking Israeli officials and members of the media had deployed a misinformation campaign
37:28to undermine America first.
37:31This echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat
37:36to the United States and that you should strike now that there was a clear path to victory.
37:44After it, I'm sorry.
37:48So effective immediately he's designing.
37:50Simply put, he's saying that Iran wasn't an imminent threat.
37:56You, President Trump, you're just a rube.
37:58You got played, man.
38:00You were just a tool to do Israel's bidding.
38:05That's what he said.
38:08Kind of just like this current fence, the Jews, the Jews.
38:14You see, the Jews are secretly running the world.
38:16You know, this is what he's saying.
38:18Guys, I just want to zoom out for a bit.
38:21Again, discernment is kind of interesting
38:26how all of a sudden all of these voices,
38:31Previously anti-Semitism was a thing on the left.
38:35But now you see it happening.
38:37And like I said before, I really believe that it's a demonic effort
38:40cause a demoralization to take place.
38:43Now, this is America.
38:44If you have criticisms about the state of Israel, that's fine.
38:49You can talk about that.
38:51But to say things like to delegitimize a homeland for the Jewish people,
38:57well, what is that all about?
39:00What is that all about?
39:03You know, it's remarkable how this is unfolding.
39:09But Joe Kent today doesn't sound like Joe Kent
39:15from just two minutes ago.
39:16If you will, Mr. McIntosh, would you put up
39:19just a little bit of Mr. Joe Kent's history?
39:24Because he's sounding a lot different now
39:30than the way he sounded before.
39:34In January 2020, Joe Kent, the same Joe Kent were right, quote,
39:40the red line is American loss of life
39:43and Iranian nuclear development.
39:45I personally think we should have crushed their ballistic
39:47and nuclear capabilities, he said, capes.
39:50But Trump has a plan.
39:52He has definitely earned the confidence
39:54of any clear-eyed observer, end quote.
39:56That's what he said in 2020.
39:58September 2024, quote,
40:00"'Trump used a balance of diplomacy, economic pressure
40:03and targeted strikes to contain Iran,
40:05the embodiment of peace through strength.
40:09October, 2020, 24, Joe Kent.
40:12Quote, October 7th happened
40:15because Biden Harris gave Iran access to over $100 billion.
40:19Trump used diplomacy to build the Abraham Accords,
40:21cut off Iran's funding and killed key terrorists.
40:24America and our allies were safe and there was less war.
40:27No more Neacons, no appeasement, Trump, 2024.
40:31So what happened to Joe Kent?
40:36Now, and there's more, I just read a few of them, there's more.
40:40So what happened to Joe Kent?
40:43And then here's the thing, if you're going to make the accusation, and this is, guys,
40:49this is a big deal for a host of reasons.
40:51He's literally saying, he's literally saying that President Trump was just a rube, you know,
40:56he got played, he got duped, you know, the Israeli's, they deceived him.
41:01All right, cool.
41:04Show the proof.
41:05What I'm saying cool is if that is what you're saying, what's the proof of that?
41:10What proof of that?
41:12You know, it's kind of kind of Candice Owensy to where you make these grand accusations,
41:18but something, something that substantial does that not bear?
41:25Does that not require some kind of substantiation?
41:33Dr. Mike Johnson from Louisiana, my home state, said, quote, Joe Kent is clearly wrong.
41:42I got all the briefings.
41:44We all understood there was clearly an imminent threat that Iran was very close to the enrichment
41:49of nuclear capability, and they were building missiles at a place that no one in the region
41:53could keep up with, end quote.
41:55That's what Speaker Johnson said.
41:59So if you got to make, again, I want to know this, if you have evidence of this, Joe Kent,
42:04But this is what you are asserting is true.
42:08You're making a conscientious objection based on this.
42:13Show what's the evidence for that?
42:16Or since you're just making claims, their reports that are indicating the real issue that Joe
42:25Kent is upset about, and this is being reported currently, is that the real issue is that Joe
42:36Joe Kent was found to be a leaker.
42:39Now how are you going to work in the office of the Director of National Intelligence, but
42:42you're going to leak information, including potentially to America's enemies, and because
42:49Joe Kent was identified as a leaker, the Trump administration was in conversation with Tulsi
42:57Gabbard to fire Joe Kent.
43:00You understand me?
43:02in the process, you have the director of counterterrorism,
43:06who had been excluded from classified briefings.
43:14And for months, he had been cut out of classified briefings
43:18and he was mad about it.
43:21So he, you know, if we gonna just say some stuff,
43:25he tried to get out in front of what was about to be
43:29a pink slip, but he want to, you short-circuit the pink slip
43:34But I said, no, no, you ain't fired me, I quit.
43:38Why you crazy?
43:40Have you ever heard that before?
43:41No, I didn't get fired.
43:43I quit.
43:45If it is true that he had been excluded
43:46from the classified briefings,
43:49when it also be true,
43:51that this fool don't know what he's talking about.
43:53Cause he wouldn't have the information that indicated
43:56whether or not there was a classified threat.
43:58If he had been excluded from the classified briefings.
44:02So all I'm saying, and listen,
44:04I'm not trying to tell anybody here to take sides.
44:07All I'm saying is before you conclude that Joe Kent is on a righteous crusade,
44:14I would encourage you to require evidence before you make that conclusion.
44:18That's all I'm saying.
44:20And if he has evidence that the president has been deceived,
44:24put it on the table, my man,
44:27because it is exceedingly irresponsible for you to make such a grandiose claim.
44:34And just like Jonah,
44:35throw your rock and hide your hand because you can read tealies because it
44:40put because of the political moment and because your homeboy Tucker Carlson
44:44some might call him katarleson it sounds like some of the same stuff
44:53Tucker has been saying and these are things that completely contradict what
44:57Joe Kent said just a couple years ago I'll tell you this and I've said this my
45:04friend Heidi St. John ran against Joe Kent in the primary because she believed that
45:09that Joe Kent was not a constitutionalist.
45:13And she felt that her state required true, clear,
45:19godly constitutional representation.
45:22But she didn't want to kick up a fuss about it
45:24because she felt like Joe Kent was better
45:25than a Democrat candidate who was running
45:27in a general election, so she decided not to attack Joe Kent
45:31once they got to the general election.
45:33That's what she told me herself.
45:36But she tried to warn President Trump about Joe Kent
45:39before President Trump ever nominated him to this position.
45:43And I understand it because of his history
45:47as a veteran, a former, Green Beret,
45:49and having a wife who was killed by ISIS.
45:54And by the way, ISIS is largely funded by who?
45:57All right, ISIS is largely funded by who?
46:00Iran.
46:02I don't know about you, but if I know somebody
46:04is responsible for funding,
46:06the group that ultimately killed my wife.
46:11You.
46:12You.
46:13Say, what's that, huh?
46:15Yeah, okay.
46:16But to say there was no evidence, I'm just going to tell you, if I have to consider Speaker
46:26Mike Johnson, who I told you before, I trust Mike Johnson.
46:30You know, there was some things when the Ukraine thing were happening that I was like, man,
46:35I have questions.
46:38But ultimately, I trust Speaker Johnson, if Joe Kent had been excluded from the intelligence
46:46briefings for months, wouldn't it also be true that he wouldn't know what the intelligence
46:51information was that led to the decision and somebody might say, well, he was the director
46:59of counter-terrorism.
47:02If he was suspected of being a leaker, so much so were there conversations about his
47:07termination of his employment, wouldn't he be excluded from those briefings?
47:12Now, if that is not true, the burden is on Joe Kent.
47:16If he's going to say something as substantive and significant as saying the United States
47:25of America was led into a military conflict,
47:27flicked by deceit.
47:29You have the burden of showing that, homie.
47:32You can't just make that accusation,
47:34and then walk down the street,
47:35like you in the, you know, you speed walking,
47:37you know, one of those Olympics speed walkers, you know?
47:42I quit in speed walk down the street.
47:46And he says that my resignation is effective as of today.
47:50Now I'm not purported to know everything that goes on in DC
47:52because I'm not in DC.
47:53And if he has more information that I don't have,
47:56then that is entirely a possibility.
47:58But again, if you are going to make the accusation
48:03that the President of the United States of America
48:06was deceived, you have an obligation
48:09to support that with proof.
48:12You can't just say that and just casually speed on,
48:17like it ain't nothing.
48:21That's what I'm saying.
48:22And I'm not even gonna get into his current wife's
48:28affiliations and her employment
48:32by let's just say
48:35the allegedly has below affiliated
48:38i'm not going to go down i'm not i'm not going to include that in the calculus
48:41so i think it's efficient to say
48:42that you can make that actually she got a supported
48:45but i do understand
48:51how this is happening
48:54so i just man
48:58as i said in the very beginning of the program i believe much of this that is
49:01happening, the keyboard warriors that are throwing mud at each other online.
49:10And it notices similar to whole Candace Owens thing.
49:12If you notice, I haven't spent a lot of time on her because I don't want to waste time on
49:16her.
49:17But she makes his accusation and keeps saying, I'm going to show you this, I'm going to show
49:20this.
49:21And when it's, well, where's the proof?
49:22She moves on to another topic.
49:26I agree in the marketplace of ideas.
49:28I agree in an exchange of ideas.
49:30I agree that if you have a point and a counterpoint, and I believe that the president's administration
49:35is best served by having those that are among the range of perspectives.
49:41I think it's good to have people that are very hesitant, very reluctant to be willing
49:49to consent to kinetic military action.
49:52And you have those who have a diversion opinion.
49:54I want our president to have advice from all the best counselors.
49:58But if you're going to make the accusation that he was just deceived, you have to support
50:03that.
50:04You can't throw that out just like it's an armchair opinion.
50:06You have to support that man.
50:08And before anybody would embrace what Joe Kin is saying, I think it's responsible to
50:14say, hmm, that's what you're saying Joe?
50:18What is the evidence that that actually happened?
50:21What's the evidence that actually happened?
50:23And if you don't have any evidence, then you need to be challenged for publicly being so
50:32irresponsible.
50:38The views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American
50:43Family Association or American Family Radio.

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