The 14-point U.S.-Iran MOU is problematic, but it is not the end of the conversation.

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21. 1:11in that turn.
22. 1:12Well, thank you so much for tuning into the program at this very moment.
23. 1:15Many of you, if not most of you are making your transition from your part time jobs where
24. 1:21you generate an income to your full time jobs where you cultivate an outcome.
25. 1:25And as you do so, I want to remind you to do so with intentionality, understanding the
26. 1:30and primacy that God places on family,
27. 1:34and welcoming God's view to inform,
28. 1:38to guide, to govern, and to guard your view.
29. 1:44And as you do that, it's a necessary step
30. 1:48in being effective ambassadors of our Lord's kingdom
31. 1:52and being salt and light was starting right in our homes.
32. 1:56Our world works over time to get us to play significance
33. 2:00and importance and primacy on everything but our homes.
34. 2:04And we often view what we get to do at home
35. 2:09is allowing really just the leftovers of a day well spent.
36. 2:14But I want to encourage you to reverse that
37. 2:16and understand that the first outpost, if you will,
38. 2:19for your faithfulness to the Lord is in your homes
39. 2:23and that what we do in our families
40. 2:26should flow outwardly from our personal investment
41. 2:29commitment in our relationship with the Lord. And as I've said numerous times and I will
42. 2:33continue to say, if we would welcome our Lord to capture us in our homes, in our families,
43. 2:42we, and there's no question as to what we could see unfold in our society. So as you're
44. 2:48making your way to your full time job, remember what goes on in your house is more important.
45. 2:53It's more important what's going on on social media, it's more important than what the news
46. 2:57media is reporting. It's a sad state of affairs. If you know all of the latest headlines, but
47. 3:04you don't even know what's going on, what's your teenage child's devices? That's problematic.
48. 3:14And I don't say that to be condemning in any sense, but simply to urge a proper and appropriate
49. 3:22recalibration. So much is happening in our country, you know, you know, little
50. 3:30mama donny's being winning primaries in New York and you have them running all over
51. 3:37the country in different places. You have the highest number of self-described
52. 3:43socialist mayors in our country since the 1920s. One thing and we'll get into this
53. 3:52later in the show because history often repeats itself if not rhymes.
54. 4:00Then once the movement, then this is as socialism was becoming more mainstream in America in
55. 4:051910, 1911.
56. 4:07Corresponding with Woodrow Wilson's time in office ultimately 1913 when the Federal Reserve
57. 4:14Act was passed.
58. 4:16But as these people took office, the American people began to become aware of the true details
59. 4:24of their regressiveism and decided, nah, we don't want any part of that.
60. 4:29The question on the table now is with our body politic, the population, our nation now, when
61. 4:37you have the realities of the regressiveism exposed, government run, go grocery stores.
62. 4:45You know, you have one candidate in New York who said, literally, we are westerners.
63. 4:49who are working to eradicate Western civilization. That's what she said. That's
64. 4:54Chevalier, New York. That's what she said. Do we have a populace that will be able to or be willing
65. 5:02to repudiate these types of insanities? But before we get into all of that, let's turn to the word of
66. 5:11God. Genesis chapter 1 is where I want to go. Because ultimately, when you boil that, boil everything
67. 5:18sitting down a brass taxes, what we're having really is a clash of worldviews.
68. 5:23You know, when you have a person who says they want to eradicate Western civilization,
69. 5:27well, why do they want to eradicate Western civilization?
70. 5:31It is an uncontrovertible fact that the foundation for what we understand to be Western civilization
71. 5:39was the biblical revelation of the Amago dei and the most radical notion of the American
72. 5:47founding is that the individual had inherent God-given rights, which were not only worthy
73. 5:57of protection, that government's highest efficacy was and is to secure to the individual the
74. 6:04rights they were entrusted to them.
75. 6:06By God, that is the foundation of our Declaration of Independence, but more importantly, I will
76. 6:16say more importantly.
77. 6:18In addition to recognizing that it is the foundation
78. 6:20of our Declaration of Independence,
79. 6:22we must understand that that idea flows
80. 6:26from biblical truth to that end.
81. 6:29Let's turn to the book of Genesis chapter one,
82. 6:32just verses 27 and 28, which is where we're gonna go.
83. 6:36This is what the word of God says.
84. 6:38God created man in his own image.
85. 6:40In the image of God, he created him male and female.
86. 6:45He created them.
87. 6:47God blessed them and God said to them,
88. 6:50be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it
89. 6:55and rule over the fish of the sea
90. 6:57and over the birds of the sky
91. 6:59and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
92. 7:06I have and I've heard lots of others spend a lot of time
93. 7:08talking about first and foremost the reality
94. 7:11that this is the first command recorded in scripture
95. 7:14that God gave to mankind.
96. 7:17Before you ever get to, you should not murder.
97. 7:19Before you get to, you should not covet.
98. 7:21The first command God gives to mankind,
99. 7:23he says, be fruitful, multiply,
100. 7:27fill the earth and subdue it.
101. 7:31These four components of this first command
102. 7:35will contribute to man's operation
103. 7:39and delegated authority, recipients of God's delegated
104. 7:42authority to exercise rulership.
105. 7:45as God subregents in the world, in the earth.
106. 7:52All right.
107. 7:56God made them male and female.
108. 8:01There's no such thing as 156 quote unquote genders.
109. 8:06I've told you before,
110. 8:07we historically as American people,
111. 8:09we never used the term gender to apply to human beings
112. 8:14until the political lobbying effort that took place
113. 8:19at the APA, the American Psychological Association
114. 8:23and American Psychiatric Association,
115. 8:26because we know human beings were made with sexist.
116. 8:29That's why the Civil Rights Act of 1964
117. 8:31prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex.
118. 8:35But that was a political movement
119. 8:37in order to begin to introduce into the American dialogue
120. 8:41the concept of a diversion,
121. 8:45or should I say a dislocation between one's biology
122. 8:48one sense of themselves has a foreign idea. But wickedness often proceeds incrementally
123. 9:00because yes, it is a wicked idea. And it's an idea that we don't accept anywhere else.
124. 9:05You know, and I use this example and some people find it to be a crude example, but it's true.
125. 9:10When we found, you know, you have a young lady who has an eating disorder regrettably, you
126. 9:16You know, and you know, yeah, bulimia, nervosa, anorexia, nervosa, we never said, yeah, but
127. 9:22you can identify yourself according to your sense of yourself, your inability to reconcile
128. 9:27how you feel with who you really are and who you really are.
129. 9:31That wasn't something we said, you know what?
130. 9:33Let's keep this bifurcation going.
131. 9:34No, we said, that's a problem and we are going to help you reconcile how you feel with what
132. 9:42is true about who you are.
133. 9:46This continued treatment in our society of people to say, oh, it's perfectly fine.
134. 9:52If you feel differently than who you are, then we are going to adjust and socially transition
135. 9:59you and respond to you according to what you feel, that will be akin to telling, you know,
136. 10:04a five foot seven young lady who weighs 93 pounds and she says she feels like she's overweight.
137. 10:09That would be akin to us saying, yes, ma'am, you are overweight.
138. 10:12You really do need to stop eating.
139. 10:14You see the cruelty in that?
140. 10:16You see how cruel that would be?
141. 10:19But when it comes to the idol of our day,
142. 10:23yeah, no, no, no, no, we're gonna let that roll.
143. 10:27Well, God had to wear with all the creative world
144. 10:29to create the earth at an instant
145. 10:32filled with 10 billion people,
146. 10:33but he expressly chose not to do so.
147. 10:35He chose to leave room for his offspring
148. 10:37to join him in fulfilling his vision for his world
149. 10:41by saying, you, my image bearers, be fruitful and multiply.
150. 10:46fill the earth and subdue it." I've explained before the word subdue comes from the Hebrew word
151. 10:53kavash, kavash, which means to place under authority or under subjection for the express purposes of
152. 11:01engaging with, for maximize human flourishing, maximize human flourishing. The fruit, what is the
153. 11:10multiplication and the filling of the earth, will aid in man's engagement with the terror firm that
154. 11:16God created as well as I would argue the sociological realities that correspond to man's interaction
155. 11:26with one another for the express purposes of maximized human flourishing.
156. 11:31But the reality is much of what is happening in our society is an argument, an argument
157. 11:40over what's the best way to do so.
158. 11:43Now, I know that there are malign actors I've told you before.
159. 11:49We talk a lot about Mark Sisson, but I've done programs on who Mark's was.
160. 11:54And he would acknowledge, you know, he'd wrote poems and things acknowledging that he
161. 12:00knew that he was doing the work of the devil.
162. 12:04That's why Satanists visit his burial site in Highgate Cemetery in England because he
163. 12:10He had gross antipathy for God's image bearers.
164. 12:13Two of his own children he allowed to starve to death.
165. 12:22So there are malign actors, there are people, and I said this before, not all climate alarmists
166. 12:29are depopulationists, but it just so happened that all depopulationists are climate alarmists.
167. 12:36You know, who say things like, well, we don't have enough resources to sustain the population
168. 12:39as is.
169. 12:40So we need to quote unquote, call the herd.
170. 12:43There are people who have malevolent positions like that, but largely, largely the everyman,
171. 12:51the, you know, the John Doe and the Jane Doe that you meet on the streets every day.
172. 12:57Most of them are not motivated by this malign animus.
173. 13:01Many of them do want to see some form of human flourishing, but they simply don't have an
174. 13:07anchoring and transcendent objective truth as to how best to achieve that.
175. 13:14And this is why, this is why, guys.
176. 13:18Well no, no, not, I won't say this is why.
177. 13:19This is a feature of what happens when a society becomes massively, politically illiterate,
178. 13:30and the remnant inner place is losing effectiveness in making disciples.
179. 13:41Central to making disciples is the cultivation of the mind.
180. 13:46Okay, being a disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ is not merely about, you know, kind of liturgical,
181. 13:54spiritual exercise.
182. 13:57The reality is that if you are in Christ and Christ is in you by His Spirit, all that you
183. 14:03are engaged in, we engage hardly as unto the Lord, not unto men.
184. 14:09As a disciple of Christ, that the entire breadth and scope of the King of glory's jurisdiction
185. 14:15is what I'm subjected to, what I willingly submit myself to.
186. 14:21And I would ask, what then is beyond God's jurisdiction?
187. 14:25Nothing.
188. 14:27When you consider the fact that we're redeemed
189. 14:29by the blood of the Lamb and planted in this nation
190. 14:31as God has divine ordained us to be,
191. 14:33He has placed us here to be salt and light.
192. 14:36And so the disciple making commission
193. 14:39that we've been commanded to exercise
194. 14:42will touch every aspect of society.
195. 14:45If we try solely to make social political arguments,
196. 14:49but we are not making disciples,
197. 14:51we're gonna find ourselves maximally frustrated.
198. 15:01A discipleship minute with Joseph Parker.
199. 15:04What are some of the battles that our children are dealing with?
200. 15:07Why is it so important that we're equipping them
201. 15:10to be warrior minded in their world
202. 15:12and in their circumstances as well?
203. 15:15Some might say, well, children are young, let them grow up.
204. 15:18Well, the fact is sadly, some children never get to grow up
205. 15:21because the world is such a dangerous, tragic place
206. 15:24in so many ways.
207. 15:25What are some of the battlefields our children
208. 15:27and youth deal with?
209. 15:28Bullying and dealing with bullying, drug abuse, alcohol abuse,
210. 15:31and the list could go on and on.
211. 15:34Parents, a very wise strategy, a kingdom strategy,
212. 15:38and a spiritual warfare strategy is figure out a way
213. 15:41to motivate your child and have them to begin
214. 15:44to read the word of God to you every day,
215. 15:46Outline as something we've mentioned before.
216. 15:49Having your child read daily is a great way to begin to instill the eternal word of God
217. 15:53in the mind and hearts of our children.
218. 15:56That's a very important battle strategy for every parent.
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231. 16:43Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton.
232. 16:45The third here, I'm gonna resume walking through the 14 point
233. 16:49of the memorandum of understanding the MOU with between the United States of America and Iran
234. 16:57in order to work toward a conclusion of the conflict there.
235. 17:03I'll just reference these because they're important and I'll double back to them in a
236. 17:07moment.
237. 17:08But point seven was the agreement to terminate all U.S. sanctions against Iran, including
238. 17:14those in in the UN Security Council resolutions and those implemented unilaterally by the United
239. 17:21States of America. One thing that I did not point out yesterday to want to make sure I
240. 17:25point out is that the timeline, however, under the MOU is not specified. So it is, it is not
241. 17:37a fully delineated timeline. And I want to be clear about something else too. I understand
242. 17:41this is an MOU, this is not the final agreement, but as I stated yesterday, I'm going to say again,
243. 17:47it is still a bit disconcerting to what we have here. All right, moving on because I want to make
244. 17:54sure I get to all 14. Number eight was, and as I said yesterday, why is this number eight? This
245. 17:59should have been point number one in my estimation, but I ran as agreed not to procure or develop a
246. 18:06nuclear weapon and both sides have agreed to a deal, I'm sorry both sides have agreed to deal
247. 18:14with the enriched uranium that Tehran already has. Okay. The methods managed material however is
248. 18:24unclear. The document notes that the mechanism will quote be mutually agreed upon in subsequent talks
249. 18:30In quote, but at a minimum, it will be quote down blended, unquote, in place under the supervision
250. 18:40of the International Atomic Energy Agency or the IAEA.
251. 18:46So I mean, it's like, okay, so how are you going to do that?
252. 18:53And a part of the problem is has been the communications publicly by Mr. Trump.
253. 19:01You know, how do you go from we've obliterated their capacity for nuclear weapon development
254. 19:08and uranium enrichment from Operation Midnight Hammer to now this MOU?
255. 19:14Well, we got to deal with the enriched uranium that there has.
256. 19:17Now, obviously I can read between the line and say, well, we thought we done more concern
257. 19:23in the enriched uranium than obviously that was done.
258. 19:27You know, but that's something that's kind of hard for the American people to stomach.
259. 19:31Alright, point nine and ten.
260. 19:35The US and Iran agreed to quote a status quo of the Iranian nuclear program in the meantime
261. 19:42until the existing enriched uranium can be dealt with.
262. 19:46Practically, this means that the US will not impose any additional sanctions, any new sanctions,
263. 19:53and the US will issue waivers for the export of oil, petroleum products, and other associated
264. 19:58services such as banking transactions and transportation for the Iranians."
265. 20:05Yeah, then points 12, I'm sorry, point 11. I alluded to this one yesterday, point 11 of the MOU says,
266. 20:15let me turn the page, that the US quote, undertakes to make fully available frozen or restricted funds
267. 20:28in quote, once the MOU is signed, and that procedures will be agreed upon
268. 20:33for the unfreezing of these assets.
269. 20:35Practically, according to the way that the MOU reads,
270. 20:41is that the assets will be released in a piecemeal fashion,
271. 20:47in a piecemeal fashion, as a kind of incentive
272. 20:51to get the Iranians to continue to comply.
273. 20:55So basically, drip here, a little here, a little there.
274. 20:58And I say, and I agree with it.
275. 21:00I'm just telling you what they're saying.
276. 21:01And then points 12 through 14 basically lay out the logistics of how the final deal will
277. 21:10unfold.
278. 21:11It says that the US and Iran will establish a quote mechanism to monitor the implementation
279. 21:16of the MOU and compliance with the final deal once it is in place and that once the MOU
280. 21:24has been signed and the initial implementation has begun, the US and Iran will start negotiations
281. 21:31for a final deal and the final deal would be endorsed by a binding UN security resolution.
282. 21:42UN Security Council resolution.
283. 21:46Yeah.
284. 21:47Yeah.
285. 21:49So while I agree and I think we have to be honest and be objective about this, I agree
286. 21:57it's a big deal to have the straight straight of our moves open.
287. 22:00Re-open.
288. 22:01It's a big deal.
289. 22:02That's a big deal.
290. 22:03The objective fact is that the Strait of her moves was open before Operation Epic Fury began.
291. 22:10So having a conclusion that basically puts us back to the way things were before Operation
292. 22:16Epic Fury began, with the additional components that seemed to be only beneficial to the Iranians
293. 22:24in this regard were now the sanctions that they were suffering under and the frozen assets
294. 22:30that they were deprived of, those things will be alleviated for them.
295. 22:35Now I do not think we should minimize the significance of the damage that has been done
296. 22:41to Iran, the long duration that it will take for them to try to rebuild their kinetic capacities.
297. 22:53They will resume their efforts to try to get a nuclear bomb.
298. 22:55I mean, I don't think anybody will believe that they're like,
299. 23:00yeah, we're fine, not seeking to enrich uranium
300. 23:04to a weapons grade.
301. 23:06I do do think that it's very possible that a lot of the uranium,
302. 23:10the stockpile is buried following operation midnight hammer.
303. 23:16But one of the things that the administration,
304. 23:19President Trump's administration said publicly
305. 23:21was for the reason for epic fury, was
306. 23:23that they were continuing to advance the uranium enrichment
307. 23:25process and they were close to getting a look at your Bob. So it's like, Whoa,
308. 23:30Whoa, which one? Now I understand you had to deal with the world as it is, not the
309. 23:35way that you want it to be. It seems, and I could be wrong here, but it seems that
310. 23:40there was a miscalculation as to Iran's capacity. I mean, the, the, from the direct
311. 23:51communications that were offered by the administration and the derived impressions were that the
312. 24:00Iranians were closer to imploding. But it seems that they may not exactly be as true as the
313. 24:12publications as the communications were made, you know. So it, it, again, this is the MOU,
314. 24:19I understand that.
315. 24:20It's not a final binding agreement.
316. 24:22I understand that.
317. 24:24But it seems like the initial approach didn't go as fully as expected.
318. 24:31And so in light of several different things, not least of which includes the midterm elections,
319. 24:37then President Trump is trying to fight an off-ramp to try to address the spike in oil
320. 24:45and gas prices that followed the Iran conflict as a result of the straits of our moves being
321. 24:50closed off, you know? But I think we need to be honest about this. It doesn't help that
322. 24:58you have leaks and things indicating that as President Trump discussed this, that the
323. 25:08advice from most almost nearly all the cabinet officials like, I'm not too sure about this.
324. 25:14I think President Trump with his gut, you know, and in many, many previous encounters, President
325. 25:21Trump's gut turned out to be right.
326. 25:27But this is difficult and to consider the fund again, what said is that the US will not be
327. 25:34involved in direct payments, but the US is basically giving our backing to say that there's
328. 25:45a $300 billion fund.
329. 25:46And by the way, it says a minimum of $300 billion, a minimum of $300 billion that will be made
330. 25:53available to, to rebuild Iran. I, I, it's a gut punch. It's a good punch. I'm not saying
331. 26:07that, you know, everything is bad. Everything is wrong. You know, cast everything off. But
332. 26:11I do think you have to be honest about this. You know, now here's the other things. There's
333. 26:19some, some indications even today that, that the Iranians are not going to comply with the
334. 26:25MOU, you know, and both Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio
335. 26:31was out saying today, well, if the Iranians won't comply with what they've already signed,
336. 26:38then we have options.
337. 26:40That's what Marco Rubio is saying.
338. 26:48You know, it is gravely concerning.
339. 26:53And then like, I something I've been saying repeatedly, even if they sign the agreement,
340. 26:58Do you believe the Iranians will adhere to and comply with the agreement?
341. 27:07In my estimation, it's countdown to the breach it.
342. 27:16One of the things that has come out and Bobby and I was talking about this yesterday that
343. 27:21I think the other states immediately around Iran have more of an impetus to isolate the
344. 27:29radical Shiite-12 regime. But again, candidly, that was already happening. That's how we got
345. 27:35the Abrahamic hordes in the first place. And there were discussions and debates about other nations
346. 27:44joining the Abrahamic hordes prior to Operation Epic Fury. But I think we'll see
347. 27:50perhaps a bit of expedition in that regard because we saw with this Operation Epic Fury,
348. 27:57our reigns, willingness to pop off missiles towards the UAE, towards other nations immediately
349. 28:05surrounding them. But once again, if you zoom out, you know, anything about Islamic history,
350. 28:12that's not new. The entire Shiite Sunni divide, when they are not talking about their desire
351. 28:21to wipe Israel off the face of the map, you know what they're talking about? We're going
352. 28:24to war against each other.
353. 28:27So I just have a sour pit in my stomach concerning this MOU.
354. 28:33And I think the legitimate, it's a legitimate question to ask if this MOU is how this conflict
355. 28:42is going to conclude what has the United States of America gained.
356. 28:49I think decapitating the 12 of a regime and severely crippling Iran's ability to project
357. 29:00kinetic military strength around the world is a big deal.
358. 29:05I do think that's a big deal.
359. 29:09Setting their nuclear program back decades, if not half a century.
360. 29:13I think that's a big deal.
361. 29:18I think that I do think that is a big deal.
362. 29:26that hadn't been what the messaging has been consistently
363. 29:29concerning this.
364. 29:31And then they come out on the other end and say,
365. 29:33yeah, and by the way, we are going to be basically
366. 29:37backstopping additional funding for this type of regime.
367. 29:43It's just, that's just wild to me, man.
368. 29:47That's just wild.
369. 29:49That's a good question.
370. 29:50What about money to rebuild Israel?
371. 29:50There's no money for Israel being rebuilt in this MOU.
372. 29:54There's nothing no money talked about in the MOU concerning Israel.
373. 30:01None.
374. 30:04All right.
375. 30:05There was a Supreme Court case that the opinion was announced yesterday that I wanted to get
376. 30:10to as well and I got some other stuff I want to get to.
377. 30:12Man, this time, these clocks are disrespectful.
378. 30:15Goodness gracious.
379. 30:16The case I'm talking about is the case-styled Blanche versus Lao.
380. 30:22Blanche versus Lao.
381. 30:26This case was decided in a predictably 6-3 split.
382. 30:31The division, you guys know who in a minority.
383. 30:33Who do you guess was in a minority?
384. 30:35Justice is Kattanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elayna Kagan.
385. 30:40In fact, Justice Kattanji Brown Jackson wrote the dissent.
386. 30:45Justice Clarence Thomas wrote the majority opinion.
387. 30:49This case arises from a case concerning a Chinese citizen.
388. 30:54I have his name here.
389. 30:56Lao is his last name.
390. 31:00Yeah, Mukchoy Lao is his name.
391. 31:03He was a Chinese citizen who became
392. 31:06a lawful permanent resident in the United States of American 2007.
393. 31:10So he was a green card holder.
394. 31:12Well, in 2012,
395. 31:15Lao was charged in New Jersey with trademark counterfeiting.
396. 31:20All right.
397. 31:20He was charged criminally
398. 31:23in New Jersey with trademark counterfeiting.
399. 31:26While a way to trial, he traveled to China.
400. 31:32You know, that's what people who want to be American citizens do.
401. 31:36They get charged with a crime and then they go to China.
402. 31:39I'm sure that's pretty normal, right?
403. 31:41Nah, that's normal.
404. 31:43But anyway, after he went to China, he tried to return back to the United States of America
405. 31:49through JFK Airport in New York City.
406. 31:52upon return, federal officials declined to regard Lau as a returning permanent resident,
407. 32:04and instead classified him as an applicant seeking admission into the country.
408. 32:10So the issue before the court was whether or not Lau suffered a deprivation of rights
409. 32:18in that he had not yet been convicted
410. 32:22when he returned to the United States of America.
411. 32:24So he should have been treated as a permanent law
412. 32:27legal resident, whereas the government was saying,
413. 32:29oh listen, when you come to our country,
414. 32:32you come and are good graces.
415. 32:34You can come to our country and commit crimes
416. 32:36and expect to remain at the exact same good graces.
417. 32:39So they allowed, loud, to return to the country,
418. 32:42but under an immigration parole advisory.
419. 32:45That basically says,
420. 32:46If you get convicted of a crime, you're out.
421. 32:50Well, fast forward,
422. 32:52Lau pled guilty
423. 32:55to the federal felony
424. 32:58of counterfeiting trademark information
425. 33:01and was deported.
426. 33:04In the very simple issue,
427. 33:05there shouldn't be a common,
428. 33:06said have been a common sense issue,
429. 33:08was whether or not Lau suffered
430. 33:10an unconstitutional deprivation of his rights
431. 33:13as a green card holder.
432. 33:14Well, the US Supreme Court has ruled,
433. 33:17Listen, even if you have a green card,
434. 33:19that's not a green light to violate our laws.
435. 33:22And if you violate our laws,
436. 33:23then we can kick you out of the country as well.
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457. 34:32Preparing Boys for Marriage and Fatherhood.
458. 34:35This is David Wheaton, host of The Christian World View.
459. 34:38Nothing has been more assaulted in our society than God's design for a godly father, shepherding
460. 34:43his wife and children.
461. 34:45authority in the home is slandered as toxic. Sexual immorality and gender confusion are endlessly
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471. 35:27Saturday mornings at 8th Central on American Family Radio.
472. 35:45Welcome back to the Hamilton Corner, Abraham Hamilton III. Here two things happened and
473. 35:51they're related but one happened and then the other happened. First, President Trump
474. 35:57was scheduled to sign the, what do you call this thing? The 21st Century Road to Housing
475. 36:08Act. This is a measure that was a package aimed at lowering costs for home buyers, increasing
476. 36:15housing supply, it included, you know, the prohibition on corporations, securing single-family
477. 36:23homes and things of that nature, which that is an idea while I understand what people are
478. 36:28trying to say.
479. 36:32We got to get out of this idea that, well, whatever the problem may be, we got to have
480. 36:36government to sweep in as a solution.
481. 36:38That is fundamentally anti-American.
482. 36:41And it is fundamentally economic, it is, it is economically insane.
483. 36:49It is economically insane.
484. 36:54President Trump was scheduled to sign this bill into law earlier today.
485. 36:58But before the signing ceremony, before the signing ceremony, President Trump said, you
486. 37:05know what?
487. 37:06I'm not going to sign this bill.
488. 37:09He posted this on True Social.
489. 37:10Today's Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby canceled until such time as we pass
490. 37:17the Desperately Needed Save America Act, which I consider to be a national emergency.
491. 37:24This is what President Trump said.
492. 37:26Shortly after that occurred, House Speaker Mike Johnson from my home state of Louisiana
493. 37:33was interviewed and he explained in the interview that he had been speaking to President
494. 37:41Trump and he talked President Trump through the process of adding the Save America Act
495. 37:49to a third budget reconciliation bill, third meaning the third time doing President Trump's
496. 37:54current term that a reconciliation bill would be presented in past.
497. 38:01Speaker Johnson said to the public in an interview and explain that he had told President Trump
498. 38:06that he believes that we could have the Save America Act
499. 38:10pushed through reconciliation.
500. 38:12Listen to and watch clip number five, clip five, go.
501. 38:17He's laser focused on Save America Act
502. 38:19as most common sense Americans are.
503. 38:22The only path I think to get that done
504. 38:24because you're never gonna get seven Democrats
505. 38:26to join 53 Republicans in the Senate to do that.
506. 38:28They will not do it.
507. 38:29Chuck Shambir will never vote for that
508. 38:31or release any Democrat to do it.
509. 38:33You have to put it on a reconciliation bill.
510. 38:35We believe that if you create a grant program that ties it to
511. 38:39reconciling the budget and you allow blue states,
512. 38:41if they come to their senses and they want to avail themselves
513. 38:43of election integrity proposals and ideas and policies,
514. 38:48they can draw down from a federal fund and use those funds.
515. 38:52We're willing to invest heavily in that.
516. 38:55And House Republicans will put together a reconciliation bill,
517. 38:57a reconciliation 3.0, that will have that.
518. 38:59I talked to President through that and detailed this morning,
519. 39:01as I have in the past, and he said, can we do it?
520. 39:04it we can. For those of you who are not aware, the reconciliation process is a legislative
521. 39:11process that is available. Usually it is used once every fiscal year in Congress and the
522. 39:19Congressional Fiscal Year starts October 1st and it concludes September 30th. If we had
523. 39:27formal budget resolutions, you could actually do three reconciliation bills per budget resolution.
524. 39:34However, historically, the reconciliation process has been used exclusively to pertain
525. 39:40to fiscal issues.
526. 39:43And that is why the Senate parliamentarian has been called upon historically to basically
527. 39:50call balls and strikes to say whether or not certain portions of a reconciliation bill would
528. 39:59be allowed as being germane to what the reconciliation process is for.
529. 40:03Now, I will remind you that reconciliation is once again a Senate rule, it is not in the
530. 40:10U.S. Constitution, it is a rule that the Senate has come up with that will allow them for certain
531. 40:18bills that they deem to be sufficiently applicable to reconciliation to be able to sidestep the
532. 40:25filibuster.
533. 40:27And that's why this is being discussed.
534. 40:31But Speaker Johnson is proposed to the president and say, Hey, why don't we put the Save America
535. 40:36Act in the next reconciliation bill that we work on that way?
536. 40:41We don't have to worry about the filibuster.
537. 40:42Now you guys know I've told you, I've told you that the senators could, because there's
538. 40:49a 53 47 majority U S and of Republicans in the U S Senate, if they chose to, they could
539. 40:55temporarily change the filibuster rules, not have to worry about a Senate parliamentarian,
540. 41:00You're not gonna have to worry about those things.
541. 41:02And once you get the Save America Act pass, for example,
542. 41:05you go, ooh, you know what?
543. 41:07We'll put it back to 60 now.
544. 41:09If they chose to do that,
545. 41:10there will be nothing the Democrats in the Senate
546. 41:12can do to stop them from doing that.
547. 41:15But of course they don't want to do that,
548. 41:16because they don't want to do that,
549. 41:18because the Democrats get empowered.
550. 41:19The whole thing, I've told you guys
551. 41:22to issue the filibuster every time
552. 41:24that the vote threshold for the filibuster has been changed.
553. 41:27It's been changed by the Democrats.
554. 41:29The reason why we arrived at the current 60 vote threshold
555. 41:32because there was a time in the past when the Democrats only had 60 votes and the threshold
556. 41:36was 66 and the Democrats in the Senate said, why don't we lower that threshold to 60?
557. 41:41And voila, there you have it.
558. 41:43It just is very frustrating to me.
559. 41:49This is one place where I am grateful that President Trump is saying, you know what?
560. 41:52I'm not signing any of these bills unless the Save America Act gets passed because he's
561. 41:57realizing that you cannot, you cannot have an enduring presidency if everything that you've
562. 42:06done is by executive order or exclusively foreign policy.
563. 42:12It, it, it's just not going to happen.
564. 42:16And, you know, John Thune has said repeatedly that they don't have the votes.
565. 42:21They don't have the votes.
566. 42:22They don't have the votes.
567. 42:23They don't have the votes.
568. 42:24They don't have the votes, they don't have the votes, but it's amazing.
569. 42:26They have the votes of what they want to have the votes for.
570. 42:29It's amazing.
571. 42:32So I applaud Speaker Johnson's efforts here.
572. 42:36I think if you're using the historical understanding of reconciliation, I don't think this would
573. 42:41have been a part of a reconciliation bill, you know, but when you consider that the reconciliation
574. 42:47standard is whatever the senator said is in that if a parliamentarian says, well, I don't
575. 42:53think it's your main and the senators because literally say, thank you for your opinion.
576. 42:57We don't care.
577. 42:58Let's vote on the measure.
578. 42:59They literally can do that.
579. 43:03It's just, it's just very frustrating that you have the American people and don't get
580. 43:10me wrong, I understand that the, the margins are very narrow, right?
581. 43:13The margin that creates a Republican majority in the House of Representatives is, House
582. 43:18of Representatives is razor thin.
583. 43:20I get that.
584. 43:23But the problem has not been the House.
585. 43:25The House has been passing bills, generally speaking.
586. 43:29The problem has been in the Senate and the U.S., the American people have given the Republican
587. 43:33party, the presidency, a very razor thin majority in the house and a 53 to 47 majority in the
588. 43:40Senate. And what we continuously hear is, well, we don't have the votes. How do you think that
589. 43:50is going to impact the people who put you into office? Do you think they elected you for you
590. 43:56to come back and say, Hey, by the way, you elected me and we say we would do this, but
591. 43:59we don't have the votes to do what you're elected me to do. And then you have the historical reality
592. 44:05that the party in power, admit terms usually loses a majority in the house or in Congress
593. 44:11in the midterms.
594. 44:12There have been several, there are very few exceptions to that.
595. 44:16I said long ago that when President Trump got elected that he would have to come into office
596. 44:21with a fervor and a passion in the zeal to buck the historical trends to show that,
597. 44:27hey, this is why it's good for the American people to have my party in office because this
598. 44:33is what we get done.
599. 44:37I think a part of the urgency coming from the Trump administration is that, you know, he's
600. 44:42a lot of things, but he's not dumb.
601. 44:44He knows that a lot of the, a lot of the American people are a bit frustrated because on the
602. 44:48domestic front with the exception of stopping the flood of illegal immigrants to our southern
603. 44:56border, they've done a tremendous job on that, tremendous job.
604. 45:01You know, but except for that, which again was done largely through executive action, there
605. 45:10There hasn't been as much accomplished on the domestic front.
606. 45:12And so he's trying, he's pushing for it.
607. 45:17And frankly, it's not, it should not be as heavy of a lift as we're making it because it
608. 45:23is an exceedingly popular measure with the American people.
609. 45:26The idea that, you know, you have to be a US citizen to vote in federal elections, you
610. 45:34got to have your ID to register to vote and you have to show your ID to cast a ballot.
611. 45:39And it can't be some man be pan be ID and I think it also includes some provisions about
612. 45:47keeping biological men out of girls in women's sports, biological boys and men out of girls
613. 45:54on women's sports.
614. 45:57And this is a measure that upwards of 70% of the American people support.
615. 46:03It's crazy to consider it man.
616. 46:09It's just crazy to consider it.
617. 46:14All right, one more thing I want to mention and I just want to make sure you're aware
618. 46:18of this.
619. 46:21So there's a continuous effort as having the most effect in which commonly described as
620. 46:29blue states.
621. 46:31Well you have the Democrat Party establishment which is regressive in my estimation, so already
622. 46:36left the wing.
623. 46:37But they're coming up against the self-described socialist wing of the Democrat Party.
624. 46:44And so you had primary elections in New York for example, and you had the several incumbents
625. 46:53well one incumbent in particular
626. 46:56who lost
627. 46:57you had kind of the hand-picked successor to an incumbent
628. 47:01who lost
629. 47:04and new york is a running back on their mom downy affinity so i'll start
630. 47:08with incumbent representative daniel goldman
631. 47:13he lost his bid to be reelected to
632. 47:15to be to be reelected to be the democrat nominee
633. 47:19for the tenth congressional district in new york which
634. 47:23if you win the primary new york as a democrat you're going to win the
635. 47:26general election in the 10th district.
636. 47:31He ran against the New York City Comptroller Brad Lander.
637. 47:35And this is how the the the sides broke down.
638. 47:39So Daniel Goldman was endorsed by New York's governor's New York's governor, Kathy Hokel.
639. 47:46He was endorsed by Democrat house minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries.
640. 47:51This is the new Nancy Pelosi yet Goldman lost.
641. 47:58Goldman lost to what's this guy's name again land.
642. 48:05I have it Brad Lander Brad Lander Brad Lander was endorsed by Zoron Momdani Bernie Sanders
643. 48:15Elizabeth Warren
644. 48:19Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,
645. 48:20occasional cortex working families party Ocasio-Cortez I'm sorry
646. 48:30Okay. And this breakdown happened over and over again. You then had the Congressional
647. 48:42Representative who is the leader of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. That will be representative
648. 48:49Adriano as Spilat. I'm probably mispronouncing his last name. Well, he lost to Daria Lisa,
649. 48:57Sterealiza Avila Chevalier.
650. 49:02Chevalier, you know, she just did things like, you know,
651. 49:05co-founded Columbia University's Apartheid Divest Organization.
652. 49:10She posted death to America on social media.
653. 49:13She's the one who said, we are Westerners fighting
654. 49:15for the total eradication of Western civilization.
655. 49:21She's the one who asked for, quote,
656. 49:23community instruction from militants in the global South
657. 49:26who have been on the front lines
658. 49:27in the fight against tyranny and domination
659. 49:29which undergird the imperialist world order.
660. 49:34She advocated against all deportations.
661. 49:37She says Israel does not exist,
662. 49:40and she demands a world without police or prisons.
663. 49:44She was backed by Zorrah Mamdani,
664. 49:48the local democratic socialist of America's chapter,
665. 49:51and justice democrats.
666. 49:56Chavoyee, won.
667. 49:58Her democratic primary, Ricks.
668. 50:01Then you have Claire Valdez, also endorsed by Zora Mamdani,
669. 50:07describes herself as a Democrat socialist.
670. 50:09She's currently a New York State Assembly member
671. 50:11in the state legislature.
672. 50:17The Democratic establishment candidate
673. 50:23to fill Nydia Velazquez's seat
674. 50:26is who she was campaigning against.
675. 50:30Well, Claire Valdez won her primary race as well.
676. 50:33And Claire, you know, her platform includes things
677. 50:35like abolishing ICE, demilitarizing the border, making it easier for illegal aliens to gain
678. 50:43permanent legal residents, defunding Israel and supercharging the Green New Deal.
679. 50:49Don't look now, but Zoron's a multiply.
680. 50:57The issue and question is are we preparing our citizens sufficiently to oppose the insane
681. 51:06ideas from the socialists in America.
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