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AFA has several trips coming up in the next six to nine months
Well, we have a few trips coming up in the next six to nine months that I wanted to highlight. Six to ten months, really. The, Boston trip for 2026 for this year is the only trip left in which we have seats for this year. So we're going to be going to Boston with historian Steven McDowell and Tim Barton. We're going to be doing this in late September of this year and touring the Freedom Trail, Lexington, Concord, ah, Plymouth, Rock, a lot of different places. We'll, go to the home of Jon Adams, walk the, as I mentioned, the Freedom Trail. So there's a lot we're going to do, in the Boston area, exploring America's spiritual heritage and God's fingerprint on America and her early founding. Obviously this is the 250th anniversary of America. So it's going to be quite a special trip in September. So if you want to join us, go over to tours.afa.net tours.afa.net to check out that trip to Boston. Also while you're there, you'll see our Italy and Greece trips coming up in early 2027. We're going to Italy and Greece. We're taking a break from Israel for obvious reasons. this past, year has, been our. Well, really technically this year was our third time in the last five to six years to have our trip to Israel postponed due to Covid and the war. So, with that being stated, we're going to take one year off in 27 and we are going to, go to Italy. My parents are going to take a trip to a group to Italy and my brother and I will be back in Greece for the second time doing the Footsteps of Paul. So those trips are on the website as well. That's going to take place in March of 2027. So we look forward to seeing some of you on those trips. Lastly, coming up this fall in October, we're going to be back at the Ark Encounter. We're going to be back at the Ark Encounter, the Creation Museum. You can go over to afa.net/events afa.net forward/events to check out our trip to the Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum taking place on October 29th and 30th. That one for sure is over halfway full for the trip to the Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum. So you're going to want to check that out, right now [email protected] forward/events.
Supreme Court ruling says you can't draw congressional districts based on ethnicity
Well, jumping into some of the topics I want to get to on today's program and then we're going to have a guest with us in the last segment to highlight what's going on, in the state of Alabama with their elections and their primaries, et cetera, and their congressional delegation. the projections on, the effects of redistricting and the census and different, maps and legislative redrawing, of the district maps. This is, this has the potential, according to folks who look into this and according to the data, the Supreme Court ruling, in recent weeks and within the last month or two basically stated that you can't draw congressional district maps based on, ethnicity, based on demographics and specifically skin color. And so looking back though, in, in modern history, we have for decades drawn congressional districts based on, minority demographics and specifically, Democrats were carving up minority districts, districts with a large portion of minority voters, whether it be African Americans or otherwise. And they were drawing these congressional districts, with that in mind. I mean that was according to a lot of these testimonies during the court filings through litigation. There were multiple instances even in Louisiana where they, the folks who drew up the congressional maps admitted that they did it solely based on black voters and ensuring that black voters got to pick who their representative was regardless of anything else. And so when you look at it objectively and impartially and almost take this colorblind, ethnic blind approach, then it's so wrong what, what we've been doing in this country. And, and in some degree that there is a piece of me that understands some of the thinking here, some of this post civil rights thinking. But at the end of the day the civil rights movement had morphed into something more than just equal access to the for example equal access to public accommodations, to schools, etc. And desegregation if you will. It morphed from that into this really. Well the affirmative action is exhibit A. It morphed into this, this almost counter racist movement where instead of you know, the history of the white man being you know, hateful and racist, it turned into giving minorities this license to discriminate against whites. That's what this has turned into. And the, the drawing of the congressional maps is almost exhibit A of this where you, you disenfranchise a large majority of white voters simply because of the way the courts had allowed these congressional districts to be drawn. Nonetheless, it brings us to this point where back to my original point. When you look at how we've been operating as a country the last 40 to 50 years where we've been you know, drawing these congressional maps based on folks skin color, ah, it's so wrong and it just doesn't make sense objectively. And that's not how a country should be run. So the Supreme Court recognized this in a recent ruling. So we're going back to the drawing board. This is where the whole redistricting conversation comes up. And the Democrats are in a lot of trouble here. And I'm not the only one stating this. I'm going to play a clip here of Stacey Abrams, and Stacey Abrams, the former gubernatorial candidate from Georgia. here is talking about how between the redistricting and the census data, the the Democrats could lose hundreds of legislative seats around the country. They could lose nearly 20 congressional seats in the House of Representatives over the next, let's say four to five years. And I'll explain more about this after. But let's listen to how concerned Stacey Abrams is about Democrats losing control at virtually every level of government.
To what extent will this ruling affect representation and the representation below the federal level
MS Now Reporter Clip 2 Stacey, could you talk a little bit about how this ruling will affect black representation not only at the federal level, but at the state level? I'm thinking state lawmakers, county commissions, city, councils. To what extent will this ruling affect representation and the representation, particularly of voters of color at the levels below the federal level?
Stacey Abrams Absolutely. And that's why I think this is such an important conversation to have at this moment in a competitive, authoritarian nation, which is what America is now. Now, democracy is about ensuring that we have shared power and shared voices. It does not guarantee you victory, but it guarantees you access. Authoritarianism, especially competitive authoritarianism, attempts to diminish your ability to use those same democratic institutions to your benefit. With these new maps, we know that analysis by Fair Fight and Black Voters Matters show that we could lose 19 to 20 congressional seats, but we could lose up to 191 state legislative seats. And in the south, those state legislators draw city council districts, county commission districts, school board districts, and they draw state legislative lines. And so if you want to know if your child is going to have fair and equitable access to education, that will be diminished if your families can't participate in elections. And elect leaders who value your education. If you want health care. In the south, it's the state legislature that decides whether you have access. All of the things that disproportionately harm communities of color will now be decided by people who disproportionately dislike and vote against the needs of people of color. But what we have to remember, and this is why I started the 10 Steps campaign, this is a national fight. It may start in the south, but has national implications. Progress that serves the most disproportionately harmed communities lifts everyone. But if we do not do so, if we allow the suppression of black and brown votes, we are harming their neighbors and we're harming the US and that's why we cannot allow the south to be left behind. We need national intervention because they are starting in the South. This is a national attempt to misuse democratic institutions, to suppress all of the communities who fight for democracy in this country.
Walker Wildmon Okay, so this apocalyptic talk by Stacey Abrams, honestly, there's a part of her that's right, and that the Democrats are in a predicament here, very likely to lose control on multiple levels of government. For a long time by the way, and we'll get into that. But you notice this one sided approach talking about skin color and it comes from the so called civil rights movement that has morphed into this kind of Marxist tool to create permanent victims and, and our inability to move on from it. I mean, for example, she just talked about these organizations. You've got Black Lives Matter and you've got Black Votes Matter I think is one of the organizations she mentioned. I mean can you imagine if we had a group, the white, ah, Votes Matter or the instead of the aclu, the Advancement of White People organization. This would be unacceptable basing organizations and political movements based on skin color because that's what we were supposed to move on from through the civil rights movement is this colorblind society, to quote Martin Luther King Jr. But instead the left have latched onto this former civil rights movement, turned it into a Marxist movement and they're the least colorblind of them all. Everything's black and white and brown and Hispanic and non Hispanic. I mean everything is broken down by skin color and ethnicity. But we're not supposed to be living that way according to their own standards and according to what's right. But instead here we are. And they've been drawing, when I say they, I'm talking about the Democrats, okay? They've been drawing congressional maps based on skin color so that they could get their friends, the Democrats in power because they know, just statistically speaking, that the majority of minorities, the overwhelming majority of minorities vote Democrat. That's a fact. All right? That's not, that's not, has nothing to do. Well, it's more of a cultural thing than it is skin color. But nonetheless that is simply a statistical fact that minorities have traditionally voted Democrat, at least in modern history, okay? And so Democrats have been drawing their maps looking solely at the skin color and the ethnicity of the voters to know whether they're more likely to win the elections or not. All right? And we're not supposed to be doing that in our society and is drawing up maps in congressional districts based on skin color. And the way you can kind of test this approach on whether it's right or wrong is you just say, what if another ethnicity were to do that? What if whites or Hispanics were to draw maps to favor, you know, their most likely way to vote? Then people would go, no, you can't do that. You can't do that. We're not supposed to be, you know, picking winners and losers based on ethnicity. So this is where we are. But the moral of the story here is that between the redistricting at the state level and the U.S. census data that's going to be collected in 2030, Democrats are in a serious predicament. With the likelihood of losing up to 20 congressional seats, nearly 200 state legislative seats, and nearly 20 electoral college votes. This could be a huge blow to the Democrat Party. We'll be back. At the Core. Podcasts are [email protected] now back to. At the Core on American Family Radio.
Situation with Iran is still ongoing after two months of negotiations
Welcome back to the Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to have you with us on today's program. Well, the, situation. Situation with Iran is still ongoing. It's, obviously at this point, it's over two months going on three months, as far as the timeline here, which in the, in the grand scheme of politics in our countries, a relatively short time frame. But for those that have been tracking this, it does seem like an eternity. Nonetheless, the situation at this juncture, involves basically two elements. Just keeping this at a high level, and then we'll play a couple clips and talk more about this. But nonetheless, the situation, with Iran pretty much, is, summarized at this juncture with Iran still having nuclear material, enriched uranium, that they've even admitted that they have enough to create 11 nuclear warheads. Those are their words. Those are not Israel's words or President Trump's words. Those are the words of Iranian representatives at the negotiations a month or two ago. And then secondly, the Strait of Hormuz and the persistent attacks on surrounding nations, including the U.S. and our allies in the region and Israel. Those are pretty much the two main topics of negotiation with Iran insisting on maintaining their nuclear capabilities, refusing to turn over the enriched uranium. And then secondly, Iran continually harassing and terrorizing commercial shipping vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. They've sunk multiple commercial vessels. They've attacked US Vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. And so that's a very, very big deal. And we'll talk a little more about that here shortly.
Mohammad Rezai: The success of America's operation against Iran is controversial
And what's actually going on there on the ground are, in this instance, actually on the water. The, as far as President Trump, he's shown great restraint here. Look, the US Started out very strong, very aggressive on the military campaign, and the U.S. did, do serious damage to Iran's military capabilities. There, There is no arg. The success of America's operation against Iran. Look, there's critics, on both sides. There's, you know, people playing politics with this. There's people you know, the White House, the President says that, you know, we obliterated Iran's military, which, which maybe, you know, a lot of this is subjective as far as the words used to describe, but I would say it's been successful. And considering what the projections were going into this, there was a lot of very apocalyptic projections, both economic and casualty wise, that suggested if the US Got into a conflict with Iran, it was going to be just cataclysmic, it was going to be historic, it was going to be terrible, it was going to be apocalyptic. But the reality is none of that has come to pass. And a lot of the folks that tried to predict how this would play out were just flat out wrong. They overstated things. Now I don't know whether they overstated it in honesty or whether they were just playing political theater, trying to get clicks. But nonetheless, the military operation has severely degraded Iranians ability to launch ballistic missiles, to launch drones, et cetera. Their navy is virtually non existent anymore and we'll talk about that a little bit. But nonetheless. Now President Trump continues to show great restraint on one hand, but he also continues to project narratives and negotiation, you know, a negotiation premise or facts that are really questionable as to whether there's actually a negotiation going on or not. Because if you keep track of this for the last four to six weeks, President Trump has said that Iran wants to make a deal. They're desperate to make a deal. We're close to making a deal. It could be too tomorrow, it could be next week. But then the weeks and the days go by and nothing happens. And so some of this is probably narrative control and projecting to be in control of a situation. But here's another example. Just recently in the last few weeks, President Trump talked about how he's halting aggressive strikes that were planned against Iran because Arab nations in the region requested that the White House hold off on these strikes. Clip 3.
Trey Yingst Luck is still ticking. President Trump giving Iran a few extra days to reach a deal. The President said in a post on Truth Social overnight he had planned to launch an attack against Iran today but held off at the request of Gulf leaders. He said in part on Truth Social. I've instructed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Daniel Cain and, and the United States military that we will not be doing the scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow, but have further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full large scale assault of Iran on a moment's notice in the event that an acceptable deal is not reached. The timeline here remains the biggest question. The Israeli military remains on high alert, and the US Military buildup across the region is growing each day. President Trump indicated this is a temporary pause to see if an agreement can be reached. I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and some others if we could put it off for two or three days, a short period of time, because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal. And if we can do that where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think, and if they're satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also. The Iranians released a few statements overnight with the country's president, Massoud Possesskian, saying dialogue does not mean surrender. And a senior Iranian official, Mohsen Rezai, attacking President Trump on X, saying he sets a deadline for a military attack and then cancels it himself with the false hope that he will surrender. The Iranian nation and officials, the iron fist of the powerful armed forces and the great nation of Iran, will force them to retreat and surrender. Surrender. Still a lot of tough tuck. Tough, tough talk from Gulf countries. And we have a situation now where the region is still waiting to see if the war will resume in the days ahead. Guys, wow. a lot, a lot hanging in the Middle East.
Walker: I don't think there will be an Iran deal
Walker Wildmon Well, there you have it. That's a Fox Report from Trey Yingst, covering where we are in recent weeks on this situation. here's my honest assessment. Just as an outsider looking in. I don't think there's going to be a deal with Iran. I just don't. I mean, we're two months into this. They've, look, Iran is hurting now. they've been hurting. So this notion that there's, quote, more pressure to bring on Iran, folks, that's just not. That's just not accurate. You can't keep saying that, oh, we can do more. We can corner Iran. We can, you know, we can, you know, metaphorically put our boot on their neck. We can just squeeze them. folks, these are ideologues, okay? These are, these are religious ideologues that believe in a false God and they think they're going to get virgins when they get martyred. They think they're going to go to heaven and get, you know, X amount of virgins when they, when they get martyred. That's, their viewpoint. So, this is, this is a. This is. They're religious fanatics, that are. And they're not rooted in common sense. They're not rooted in objectivity. They're not rooted in even self interest. Self preservation isn't a thing for these folks. That's why they do suicide vest. So this notion that Iran is a rational actor and you can pressure them to the table, folks, is fairytale land. And I don't know when the talking heads in the media and even when some in the White House are gonna figure this thing out. There is no deal to be made here. There will not be an Iran deal. Okay, Is the only way President Obama got them to the table was to send them billions in cash. And that was probably a stretch to get them to the table. So I just think, look, we're over two months through this, going on three months, and it's the same thing every week, folks. There is no deal to be made here. Iran is not coming to the table. Even the president admits that. He's not even sure who he's negotiating with because they've all been, assassinated through military strikes. So. But that's not a doom and gloom assessment. That's just, hey, we've got to figure out another path here, which I think there are multiple paths, to get through this and for the US to ultimately declare victory. But it's not going to look like your traditional, like a peace treaty or Iran and the US And Israel all meet and have a big summit and we all sign the peace deals. it's probably not going to look like that. It's not going to be pretty. It may not be finite or like have a definite timeframe on it, but nonetheless, that's where we are.
Peter Navaro: Opening the Strait of Hormuz is difficult
And I wanted to, read this, latest report of what happened in recent weeks in the Strait of Hormuz, because this is important when you're looking at the overall assessment here and the likelihood of reopening the Strait. Let me just tell you what this gentleman, Jim, Bianco put out, he's an economic researcher, puts out excellent information. But this gentleman, and we'll link to this in the show notes, Jim Bianco put out a post saying opening the Strait of Hormuz is not just a matter of will. We don't have a sustainable military answer right now because we don't have a defensive shield against asymmetric warfare, cheap drones and missiles, as Ukraine has against Russia. When the US Launched Project Freedom roughly three or four weeks ago, three guided missile destroyers were sent through the Strait to escort commercial shipping. The Navy came under a sustained barrage of Iranian drones and missiles and intercepted 100% of the attacks. Yet the defensive effort after just two days was extraordinarily resource intensive. It nearly depleted the missile magazines of two guided missile destroyers and required support for more than 100 aircraft. It cost an estimated 50 to 100 million dollars to just get two commercial ships through safely over two days. This model is completely unsustainable. Beyond a beef brief demonstration, the US Cannot realistically guarantee a perfect interception record against repeated sustained barrages. All it would take is one drone or missile getting through and the images of a burning American warship would be a major political disaster. And so this is, once again, this is a post by Jim Bianco that I'll link to. But his, his assessment, I believe is, is fully accurate. That's what happened because President Trump called off Project Freedom within hours. He announced it on the weekend, and then by Monday morning he said, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not doing this anymore. And he tried to blame Arab nations, saying they requested him pause it. The fact of the matter is, is that we did, our US Military did transit the Strait of Hormuz. We did escort a couple ships through the Strait of Hormuz. But it wasn't without cost and it wasn't without risk. It was a very risky maneuver. We thankfully did it successfully. No US Assets were damaged, no US Military members were harmed. So in essence it was a success. But the problem is, can you do that day in and day out? And what this Gentleman Jim Bianco is saying is you just can't do that. You cannot spend 50 to 100 million dollars over a 48 hour period and do that for weeks and months to no end. and not to mention if a commercial, passenger vessel or a US warship, ah, is damaged, that's not going to be good. Not just from the lives that are harmed, but also from a political vantage point. And so what we're beginning to realize, and more people need to, acknowledge this, is that Iran has the Strait of Hormuz closed. All right? Despite the fact that we have depleted and severely set back their military on land, their ability to project military power in the Strait is still a thing. And it's such a presence that even the US Military is not transiting the Strait of Hormuz because of the sheer risk of lives lost and damaged to our assets. And so out of all of this, pretty much the only leverage that Iran has left is the Strait of Hormuz. And if you would have asked me three to six months ago, do you think Iran can keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, I would have said no. There's no way. There's no way they have the military power to keep international waters closed. But folks, they do. They do. And I'm not saying I like it, and I'm not rooting against the US or rooting for Iran under any circumstance. I'm just telling you there's a lot of this stuff that is not being talked about widespread in the media. And you're just not seeing people talk about the fact that Iran is dominating the Strait of Hormuz. They are in full control of any vessel that transits international waters between, the Arab nations to the west and the Iranian shorelines. And so that leaves us in a place where we're either going to have to forcefully disable all of Iranians, military assets that are currently posing a threat, or we're going to have to give up something in negotiations that causes Iran, to cut a deal. I want to listen. I want you to listen to, this clip for. This is Peter Navarro, the trade, basically chief, trade, negotiator, and economist at the White House, talking about claiming that the US Controls the Strait of Hormuz. This is clip four. Deal. Now look at what we've done to rob Venezuela. Chinese are out of there, Cuba out of there. That's the Don Road doctrine. And the United States military right now controls the Strait of Hormuz, which means it controls the supply of oil not just to China, but to the entire, east. Okay, The Far east, as they used to call it. So you're making m. This one big. There's a big problem. I deal now. Right? Look at what we've. So that's, that's Peter Navarro. Here's what I want to point out. Look, and I'm not, I'm not trying to be, you know, unnecessarily provocative or, you know, criticize the U.S. like some are incessantly. I'm just trying to bring, the most realistic and honest assessment to the conversation that I don't think is getting near enough coverage. Okay, there. Peter Navarro claims that the US Controls the Strait of Hormuz. Fully controls it, folks. That's not true. That, that is. That is factually not true. Now what he would say is, well, we're controlling. We're keeping vessels from porting in Iran. We're controlling any vessel that goes in or out of Iranian ports, and we're blocking that. Well, okay, that. That is true. We are doing that, and we're doing it very well. We have been for weeks now. A vessel has not docked or departed Iranian shores in weeks. And then that is, that is a fact. But this notion that the US is controlling the Strait of Hormuz is just not true. It's factually not true. And it's so not true that our own military vessels are not even going in the Strait Straight because of fear of being shot. so that's where we are today. And I just think we've got to be more honest about this outlook. A lot of the economists, a lot of the folks on the more optimistic side say that, you know, the Straight will be reopened in weeks or whatever. And I don't know whether it will or whether it won't. But I'm just telling you, looking at the past 60 days, this is not looking like a brief endeavor. This is not looking, looking like an excursion. This is looking more like a 6 to 12 month conflict that optimistically and hopefully the US comes out on the winning side of this entire conversation. We'll be back in a few.
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American Family Radio features US Congressman Barry Moore on today's program
Welcome back to the Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to have you with us here on the program. in the past and we try to do this on occasion. We try to highlight, representatives or lawmakers and governors and state officials that are, fighting for the things that we believe in and doing good work in not, only state capitals, but the US Capitol as well. And there are many of them out there to highlight. And so I wanted to bring on a friend of the ministry that has been recently to our headquarters and visited with our team. He was on today's issues, and talked to US Congressman Barry Moore, ah, representing the state of Alabama, currently representing district, ah, one in Alabama, but also running for the US Senate seat there. Congressman Moore, welcome to the program.
Barry Moore Good morning, Walker. Great to be on with you.
US Rep. Barry Moore is running for U.S. senate in Alabama
Walker Wildmon Well, Representative Moore, before we get into this, U.S. senate race that you're currently competing in, I want to give. Give our audience a little bit of background about your time in Congress and, some of the things that you've done, during your time there in the U.S. house of Representatives.
Barry Moore Yeah, so I got elected in 2020, went to Congress about a, little over five years ago now, and, joined the House Freedom Caucus. And, you know, just. I have a really conservative district along the southern part of the state of Alabama. And. And, you know, we've got a, I think a really, really solid record as a conservative, Christian conservative and pro life, pro family kind of issues. And so I actually cut my teeth on, your granddad's show. Used to listen to him and then go to Rush Limbaugh. And I was fresh out of college, so I'd listen to that. And, the two of those helped strongly form my political and spiritual beliefs. And so it was kind of a neat thing. Now I see myself. I'm actually a garbage man in real life. So the transition from garbage politics is pretty easy to make. I tell everybody. But, been in D.C. five years and, you know, it's been a blessing. I was early with the president. I was the first elected official in the nation to endorse him. And August 21, 2015, in lab people Stadium, he came to Mobile. And I was in the state legislature. I'd served two terms and kind of term limited myself, was getting ready to go to the House, and. And, this guy Donald Trump was coming down NewSong York, you know, and there were a lot of people in that primary, but Heather and I were. We got a piece about endorsing a guy in M. NewSong York City because they knocked on the door, so would any of y' all be willing to endorse? And we went prayed down the hall Got a piece about endorsing this guy who didn't have a chance. I think there was a 1% chance that he was going to get that nomination, and he ended up winning the thing. And, so we were the first elected official in the nation to endorse a guy who didn't have a chance. And so been with the president for 11 years. In the fight. His team asked us to run for Congress, and we did that. And the Lord's been faithful, man. He's been so faithful.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, that loyalty, obviously, President Trump values loyalty and relationships. And, anyone who came out and kind of stuck their neck out in 2015, those relationships and that loyalty has definitely paid off. And there's other instances of that, not just, with your example there, but that's a long time. and you've been, fighting, obviously, in Congress for the last five or six years. the U.S. senate seat in Alabama. Correct me if I'm wrong, but current US Senator Tommy Tuberville is running for governor. That opens the door up for a seat, there, for an election there for the U.S. senate. first off, how are. How is the election? Is the Tommy Tuberville gubernatorial election pretty much in the basket? And then tell us about your, run, for U.S. senate and what the outlook is there.
Barry Moore Yeah, I think Coach is in a good spot. He and I went to DC at the same time, and my liberty scores one point higher than his. He's very competitive, so I pick on him all the time. But we. We're the two top guys in Washington, D.C. that are fighting from Alabama to protect your liberty. If you look at just our liberty score, and I talk about it all the time, and I'm like, you know, we. If you're out, in public and you commit a crime, we take your liberty. That's how we actually punish you. But it. It blows my mind. We actually elect people who voluntarily give our liberty away every day. And so, when Coach decided to run for governor, I got a lot of calls. A lot of my conservative friends were like, man. And I didn't really want to do it. I'll be honest with you. I tried to pray, I tried to talk the Lord out of it, but he told me, not that this was my call and not this was my ministry, but it was my assignment. And so, we've been in this thing, and it's going well. The president has endorsed us. We've been leading in the polls. He endorsed in January, and so he's, doing Calls around the state, farming videos, and so got a lot of key endorsements. Turning point, obviously, and J.D. vance, Tim Burchett, Jim Jordan, all those guys that know me and see me. And I've been in. I've been in the heat a lot over the five years, even a little longer than that. And so, for. For those guys to see us and come out and stand with us, it means a lot. And loyalty matters in this world. There's a. It's hard to find it in Washington, D.C. so to your point, the President appreciates it.
Walker Wildmon Yeah. Well, I'll just say from my perspective, and you and I have met in person on one occasion, but we've talked on multiple. And I've talked with your team as well. This, you know, some people have the ability to kind of judge someone, but kind of on the book cover, so to speak, which is counter to what we're told we're supposed to do. Don't judge a book by its cover. but when I met you and your wife and heard a little bit about your story and your business background and the fact that your son and your family are helping with the family business, it was just encouraging to hear. And, you're a true fighter. Your record shows it. you're not, quote, new to this fight. and so, I do value that. And, I'm very impressed with your work. Ah, Senator. I was going to say, Senator Moore, maybe I will be saying that at some point after November, but, Congressman Moore, the US Senate just seems to be in a log jam. And so, the more people we can send there, like yourself, the more we can hopefully build kind of a coalition of conservative Republican senators that will hopefully get some stuff done.
Rep Moore says Republicans need to nuke filibuster to pass Trump agenda
So talk a little bit about that and just the need for, the Republicans in the Senate, to get more done legislatively so we can codify some of the stuff that President Trump's doing.
Barry Moore Yeah. You know, to that point, I think when I went to dc, Joining the House Freedom Caucus in the Congressional side was kind of my friends, and they are armor bearers. And, look, we don't all agree in that room all the time, but I can tell you when I leave, that's about the only place I feel like I don't need a shower when I leave room in D.C. because we're in there. We're patriots, we're in the fight. And so you have to surround yourself in the Senate. And I think it's important that the people understand that if we go into Republican primaries and we elect true conservatives. They can pull the entire delegation to conservative ideas. In other words, we can hold and pull and negotiate. We've done that very successfully as House Freedom Caucuses. There are only 40 of us out of 435. But we've been able to move that needle to the right more akin to what we really think the Constitution and the people of the country appreciate. And so you have to do the same thing. And look, I'm one of the guys that thinks we need to nuke the filibuster. I'll just be honest with you. I don't. You know, Cinnamon and Mancha were the only two Democrats that held that up, and they're both gone. And so Democrats, if they get. My concern is if they get the Senate, they will nuke it. They will turn D.C. to a state. They'll have two more votes there. They'll stack the Supreme Court. And so we. We need to get this America first agenda across finish line. When you really push to nuke the filibuster, because it makes sense that we have US citizens with IDs voting in US elections. That's just common sense. And it polls them. If you look at it, even the Democrats are like 70%, 76%, 6% of the Democrats.
Walker Wildmon Yeah. Think that we need.
Barry Moore And yet we can't get a single Democrat to help us get it across the finish line. Maybe Fetterman might jump ship, I don't know. But for the most part, we don't have any help. And so the filibuster, that 60 vote thing, just doesn't work.
Walker Wildmon No, it doesn't. And to your point, I mean, a prime example recently is when the Democrats kept the Department of Homeland Security shut down for like three months. Two or three months. partially shut down. You got TSA not getting paid. All of this during some peak travel seasons. And we've got the Iran situation going on, so the threat level is elevated at our airports. And the Democrats kept it shut down all over Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which was already paid, so it wasn't like they could even affect that. They're paid through the next couple years. But the Democrats. Basically, my point is, the Democrats kept a critical agency of the government, the Department of Homeland Security, partially shut down for over two months because they basically were trying to extort President Trump to give them all these wish list items. And so it's become very. The 60 vote thing, which is not. And you know this, I'm not, Not teaching you anything. But for our audience, the 60 vote. So called filibuster, in practice is not really even a filibuster because they don't actually talk. It's more of just the rule, that they use to block stuff. But nonetheless, it's actually created a lot of dysfunction. They say it creates consensus and bipartisanship, but in reality it's created a lot of dysfunction and inconsistent government funding. And so I'm with you. It's got to be done away with. And Republicans just got to lead because I'm with you 100%. Democrats are going to get rid of it. They're going to get rid of it when they're in charge. They tried under President Biden, and we're two votes away from getting rid of the filibuster. And Kamala Harris, the former Vice president, was on a podcast recently talking about how they want to pack the court, they want to get rid of the filibuster. I mean, she was going through their wish list of stuff that she says they're going to do if they get control. we've been talking to U.S. congressman Barry Moore representing, currently representing Alabama District 1, but he's also running for the U.S. senate seat there in Alabama. Representative Moore, last word on some of the things, that you're looking forward to doing in Washington and fighting for the people of Alabama.
Barry Moore Yeah. So I think it's important that we just, you know, we got to codify what the president's trying to do. He has done a fine job on executive orders, but, you know, like, I know at the end of the day, if a Democrat president comes in with a pen and a phone, he can undo so much of that. And so it's vitally important. I think we need to nuke to fill a bus or get the Save America act, cross the finish line. And we've done a fine job in the House of getting the 12 approach. But it's like you said, they use that as leverage, the cbp, just to shut down, TSA so they could just make it hard on the American citizens. So, I think it's important that not only we get the new filibuster to finish that America first agenda, but we codify the President's executive order so the next president, if he's not, if he's a leftist, he can't come in and undo what President Trump and the American people want to be done in this country.
Walker Wildmon Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. And we need more people like you, and the other senators. There's a good handful of Republican senators that are doing the right thing and trying to fight, to get some of this stuff codified. So we just need to keep adding to the fold, if you will, to increase, the numbers there in Washington D.C. ah, Congressman Barrymore, thanks for coming on and best of luck in your U.S. senate race.
Barry Moore Thank you, my friend. God bless.
Walker Wildmon Absolutely. That's, current US Congressman Barry Moore in Alabama running for the, US Senate seat there to replace, current US Senator Tommy Tuberville, who's running for the governor's seat there in Alabama. So Alabama's just got a lot of good fighters, both at the state level and the federal level as well. And, you know, the U.S. senate has actually been trending more and more conservative, at least the Republican caucus. Because when you look at, where we were with Mitch M. McConnell as the majority leader back even during the first Trump administration, there weren't near as many, you know, freedom, caucus types in the US Senate, even though the Freedom Caucus is over in the, in the House. But those kind of people, there weren't really a lot of them. But now we saw with this Senate Majority Leader election with Jon Thune, and then you had Rick Scott from Florida also running for that position, we saw like 10 or 12 holdouts, 10 or 12 conservative Republican senator holdouts that were really concerned about Thune being the leader and really wanted someone like Rick Scott. And I understand, look, when you're looking at 50, 53 senators and you've got 12 holdouts, I understand that's just not a whole lot. it's definitely not 50%. But looking where we've come from, that's a big deal. And if we continue one, two, three at a time, getting solid conservative US Senators elected from around the country, folks, over time you could get to 20, 30, 35, solid conservative senators, Republican senators in the U.S. senate, and there's a lot of leverage there. The more you add to their number ideologically, the more power they can exert, the more negotiating power that they have with leadership and with the White House and others. So, one election at a time, ah, surely but slowly will continue to improve, the outlook of those in the U.S. senate.
The US House of Representatives is up for grabs in November elections
folks, this, this election is going to be a big deal coming up in November. It's going to be a big deal for multiple reasons. But I just want to re, kind of litigate, if you will, the reasons why November is important. First off, at a bare minimum, we know that the Democrats, if they get back control, if they get control of the US House of Representatives, which is the most hotly contested chamber right now. We know, based on what the Democrats have said themselves, that they want to impeach President Trump yet again. And I know you and I hear that, and we're like, really? What are you gonna impeach him for? the fact of the matter is it doesn't matter to them, all right? They're not looking for just cause, or they're not looking for, you know, a viable impeachment provision or alleged crime. What they're looking for is sheer political retribution and sheer punishment of President Trump, just like they did with Nancy Pelosi in charge. And Hakeem Jeffries is cut from the same cloth, he'll do the exact same thing. And so one thing that you're doing if you don't, if you keep the Democrats from taking the House of Representatives, one thing that you're doing is you're preventing said impeachment that surely will take place. you're preventing that from happening and preventing the president and the White House from having to go through that entire saga and months of wasted time and wasted money, millions of dollars in resources, with the executive branch and the legislative branch going through that entire impeachment saga. And it eats away at the calendar, at the legislative calendar, and the ability for the legislature to actually get good stuff done. secondly, the Democrats, look, if they take over the House, they're going to use their, votes to block a lot of the spending President Trump and Republicans want to do. They'll also try, through negotiation and legislative and financial extortion, to prevent President Trump from even funding basic elements of the government. And so, look, the Democrats are so partisan, they're so divisive that you give them an ounce of power, folks, they will destroy so much. They will wreak so much havoc, so much chaos. And we see what they're doing now, and they're in the minority, so you can just imagine what will happen if they're in the majority. That's what's at stake this November and much more. Right now. The voices in our culture are loud, but truth is often silent. And today, preborns need you to help speak that truth. Women facing unplanned pregnancies are often pressured to act quickly before they have time to pause, breathe, or, hear the truth about life, dignity, and hope. But I refuse to be silent, and I'm asking you to join me. At PreBorn Network clinics, a woman is welcomed with compassion and given a free ultrasound. She sees the life growing inside her, often for the very first time. And in that sacred moment, fear gives way to clarity. And she's offered something abortion industry will never provide the hope of Jesus Christ. This April, our goal is to have 11,000 gospel conversations in PreBorn network clinics, trusting God to bring the increase as we remain faithful to speak. You can help make that possible by sponsoring ultrasounds. Just $28 provides one ultrasound and $140 provides five free ultrasounds for mothers in crisis. Every dollar helps save babies and share the hope of the gospel. To donate, dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250 and say the keyword baby dot or visit preborn.com afr that's preborn.com afr the views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
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AFA has several trips coming up in the next six to nine months
Well, we have a few trips coming up in the next six to nine months that I wanted to highlight. Six to ten months, really. The, Boston trip for 2026 for this year is the only trip left in which we have seats for this year. So we're going to be going to Boston with historian Steven McDowell and Tim Barton. We're going to be doing this in late September of this year and touring the Freedom Trail, Lexington, Concord, ah, Plymouth, Rock, a lot of different places. We'll, go to the home of Jon Adams, walk the, as I mentioned, the Freedom Trail. So there's a lot we're going to do, in the Boston area, exploring America's spiritual heritage and God's fingerprint on America and her early founding. Obviously this is the 250th anniversary of America. So it's going to be quite a special trip in September. So if you want to join us, go over to tours.afa.net tours.afa.net to check out that trip to Boston. Also while you're there, you'll see our Italy and Greece trips coming up in early 2027. We're going to Italy and Greece. We're taking a break from Israel for obvious reasons. this past, year has, been our. Well, really technically this year was our third time in the last five to six years to have our trip to Israel postponed due to Covid and the war. So, with that being stated, we're going to take one year off in 27 and we are going to, go to Italy. My parents are going to take a trip to a group to Italy and my brother and I will be back in Greece for the second time doing the Footsteps of Paul. So those trips are on the website as well. That's going to take place in March of 2027. So we look forward to seeing some of you on those trips. Lastly, coming up this fall in October, we're going to be back at the Ark Encounter. We're going to be back at the Ark Encounter, the Creation Museum. You can go over to afa.net/events afa.net forward/events to check out our trip to the Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum taking place on October 29th and 30th. That one for sure is over halfway full for the trip to the Ark Encounter and the Creation Museum. So you're going to want to check that out, right now [email protected] forward/events.
Supreme Court ruling says you can't draw congressional districts based on ethnicity
Well, jumping into some of the topics I want to get to on today's program and then we're going to have a guest with us in the last segment to highlight what's going on, in the state of Alabama with their elections and their primaries, et cetera, and their congressional delegation. the projections on, the effects of redistricting and the census and different, maps and legislative redrawing, of the district maps. This is, this has the potential, according to folks who look into this and according to the data, the Supreme Court ruling, in recent weeks and within the last month or two basically stated that you can't draw congressional district maps based on, ethnicity, based on demographics and specifically skin color. And so looking back though, in, in modern history, we have for decades drawn congressional districts based on, minority demographics and specifically, Democrats were carving up minority districts, districts with a large portion of minority voters, whether it be African Americans or otherwise. And they were drawing these congressional districts, with that in mind. I mean that was according to a lot of these testimonies during the court filings through litigation. There were multiple instances even in Louisiana where they, the folks who drew up the congressional maps admitted that they did it solely based on black voters and ensuring that black voters got to pick who their representative was regardless of anything else. And so when you look at it objectively and impartially and almost take this colorblind, ethnic blind approach, then it's so wrong what, what we've been doing in this country. And, and in some degree that there is a piece of me that understands some of the thinking here, some of this post civil rights thinking. But at the end of the day the civil rights movement had morphed into something more than just equal access to the for example equal access to public accommodations, to schools, etc. And desegregation if you will. It morphed from that into this really. Well the affirmative action is exhibit A. It morphed into this, this almost counter racist movement where instead of you know, the history of the white man being you know, hateful and racist, it turned into giving minorities this license to discriminate against whites. That's what this has turned into. And the, the drawing of the congressional maps is almost exhibit A of this where you, you disenfranchise a large majority of white voters simply because of the way the courts had allowed these congressional districts to be drawn. Nonetheless, it brings us to this point where back to my original point. When you look at how we've been operating as a country the last 40 to 50 years where we've been you know, drawing these congressional maps based on folks skin color, ah, it's so wrong and it just doesn't make sense objectively. And that's not how a country should be run. So the Supreme Court recognized this in a recent ruling. So we're going back to the drawing board. This is where the whole redistricting conversation comes up. And the Democrats are in a lot of trouble here. And I'm not the only one stating this. I'm going to play a clip here of Stacey Abrams, and Stacey Abrams, the former gubernatorial candidate from Georgia. here is talking about how between the redistricting and the census data, the the Democrats could lose hundreds of legislative seats around the country. They could lose nearly 20 congressional seats in the House of Representatives over the next, let's say four to five years. And I'll explain more about this after. But let's listen to how concerned Stacey Abrams is about Democrats losing control at virtually every level of government.
To what extent will this ruling affect representation and the representation below the federal level
MS Now Reporter Clip 2 Stacey, could you talk a little bit about how this ruling will affect black representation not only at the federal level, but at the state level? I'm thinking state lawmakers, county commissions, city, councils. To what extent will this ruling affect representation and the representation, particularly of voters of color at the levels below the federal level?
Stacey Abrams Absolutely. And that's why I think this is such an important conversation to have at this moment in a competitive, authoritarian nation, which is what America is now. Now, democracy is about ensuring that we have shared power and shared voices. It does not guarantee you victory, but it guarantees you access. Authoritarianism, especially competitive authoritarianism, attempts to diminish your ability to use those same democratic institutions to your benefit. With these new maps, we know that analysis by Fair Fight and Black Voters Matters show that we could lose 19 to 20 congressional seats, but we could lose up to 191 state legislative seats. And in the south, those state legislators draw city council districts, county commission districts, school board districts, and they draw state legislative lines. And so if you want to know if your child is going to have fair and equitable access to education, that will be diminished if your families can't participate in elections. And elect leaders who value your education. If you want health care. In the south, it's the state legislature that decides whether you have access. All of the things that disproportionately harm communities of color will now be decided by people who disproportionately dislike and vote against the needs of people of color. But what we have to remember, and this is why I started the 10 Steps campaign, this is a national fight. It may start in the south, but has national implications. Progress that serves the most disproportionately harmed communities lifts everyone. But if we do not do so, if we allow the suppression of black and brown votes, we are harming their neighbors and we're harming the US and that's why we cannot allow the south to be left behind. We need national intervention because they are starting in the South. This is a national attempt to misuse democratic institutions, to suppress all of the communities who fight for democracy in this country.
Walker Wildmon Okay, so this apocalyptic talk by Stacey Abrams, honestly, there's a part of her that's right, and that the Democrats are in a predicament here, very likely to lose control on multiple levels of government. For a long time by the way, and we'll get into that. But you notice this one sided approach talking about skin color and it comes from the so called civil rights movement that has morphed into this kind of Marxist tool to create permanent victims and, and our inability to move on from it. I mean, for example, she just talked about these organizations. You've got Black Lives Matter and you've got Black Votes Matter I think is one of the organizations she mentioned. I mean can you imagine if we had a group, the white, ah, Votes Matter or the instead of the aclu, the Advancement of White People organization. This would be unacceptable basing organizations and political movements based on skin color because that's what we were supposed to move on from through the civil rights movement is this colorblind society, to quote Martin Luther King Jr. But instead the left have latched onto this former civil rights movement, turned it into a Marxist movement and they're the least colorblind of them all. Everything's black and white and brown and Hispanic and non Hispanic. I mean everything is broken down by skin color and ethnicity. But we're not supposed to be living that way according to their own standards and according to what's right. But instead here we are. And they've been drawing, when I say they, I'm talking about the Democrats, okay? They've been drawing congressional maps based on skin color so that they could get their friends, the Democrats in power because they know, just statistically speaking, that the majority of minorities, the overwhelming majority of minorities vote Democrat. That's a fact. All right? That's not, that's not, has nothing to do. Well, it's more of a cultural thing than it is skin color. But nonetheless that is simply a statistical fact that minorities have traditionally voted Democrat, at least in modern history, okay? And so Democrats have been drawing their maps looking solely at the skin color and the ethnicity of the voters to know whether they're more likely to win the elections or not. All right? And we're not supposed to be doing that in our society and is drawing up maps in congressional districts based on skin color. And the way you can kind of test this approach on whether it's right or wrong is you just say, what if another ethnicity were to do that? What if whites or Hispanics were to draw maps to favor, you know, their most likely way to vote? Then people would go, no, you can't do that. You can't do that. We're not supposed to be, you know, picking winners and losers based on ethnicity. So this is where we are. But the moral of the story here is that between the redistricting at the state level and the U.S. census data that's going to be collected in 2030, Democrats are in a serious predicament. With the likelihood of losing up to 20 congressional seats, nearly 200 state legislative seats, and nearly 20 electoral college votes. This could be a huge blow to the Democrat Party. We'll be back. At the Core. Podcasts are [email protected] now back to. At the Core on American Family Radio.
Situation with Iran is still ongoing after two months of negotiations
Welcome back to the Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to have you with us on today's program. Well, the, situation. Situation with Iran is still ongoing. It's, obviously at this point, it's over two months going on three months, as far as the timeline here, which in the, in the grand scheme of politics in our countries, a relatively short time frame. But for those that have been tracking this, it does seem like an eternity. Nonetheless, the situation at this juncture, involves basically two elements. Just keeping this at a high level, and then we'll play a couple clips and talk more about this. But nonetheless, the situation, with Iran pretty much, is, summarized at this juncture with Iran still having nuclear material, enriched uranium, that they've even admitted that they have enough to create 11 nuclear warheads. Those are their words. Those are not Israel's words or President Trump's words. Those are the words of Iranian representatives at the negotiations a month or two ago. And then secondly, the Strait of Hormuz and the persistent attacks on surrounding nations, including the U.S. and our allies in the region and Israel. Those are pretty much the two main topics of negotiation with Iran insisting on maintaining their nuclear capabilities, refusing to turn over the enriched uranium. And then secondly, Iran continually harassing and terrorizing commercial shipping vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. They've sunk multiple commercial vessels. They've attacked US Vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. And so that's a very, very big deal. And we'll talk a little more about that here shortly.
Mohammad Rezai: The success of America's operation against Iran is controversial
And what's actually going on there on the ground are, in this instance, actually on the water. The, as far as President Trump, he's shown great restraint here. Look, the US Started out very strong, very aggressive on the military campaign, and the U.S. did, do serious damage to Iran's military capabilities. There, There is no arg. The success of America's operation against Iran. Look, there's critics, on both sides. There's, you know, people playing politics with this. There's people you know, the White House, the President says that, you know, we obliterated Iran's military, which, which maybe, you know, a lot of this is subjective as far as the words used to describe, but I would say it's been successful. And considering what the projections were going into this, there was a lot of very apocalyptic projections, both economic and casualty wise, that suggested if the US Got into a conflict with Iran, it was going to be just cataclysmic, it was going to be historic, it was going to be terrible, it was going to be apocalyptic. But the reality is none of that has come to pass. And a lot of the folks that tried to predict how this would play out were just flat out wrong. They overstated things. Now I don't know whether they overstated it in honesty or whether they were just playing political theater, trying to get clicks. But nonetheless, the military operation has severely degraded Iranians ability to launch ballistic missiles, to launch drones, et cetera. Their navy is virtually non existent anymore and we'll talk about that a little bit. But nonetheless. Now President Trump continues to show great restraint on one hand, but he also continues to project narratives and negotiation, you know, a negotiation premise or facts that are really questionable as to whether there's actually a negotiation going on or not. Because if you keep track of this for the last four to six weeks, President Trump has said that Iran wants to make a deal. They're desperate to make a deal. We're close to making a deal. It could be too tomorrow, it could be next week. But then the weeks and the days go by and nothing happens. And so some of this is probably narrative control and projecting to be in control of a situation. But here's another example. Just recently in the last few weeks, President Trump talked about how he's halting aggressive strikes that were planned against Iran because Arab nations in the region requested that the White House hold off on these strikes. Clip 3.
Trey Yingst Luck is still ticking. President Trump giving Iran a few extra days to reach a deal. The President said in a post on Truth Social overnight he had planned to launch an attack against Iran today but held off at the request of Gulf leaders. He said in part on Truth Social. I've instructed Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Daniel Cain and, and the United States military that we will not be doing the scheduled attack of Iran tomorrow, but have further instructed them to be prepared to go forward with a full large scale assault of Iran on a moment's notice in the event that an acceptable deal is not reached. The timeline here remains the biggest question. The Israeli military remains on high alert, and the US Military buildup across the region is growing each day. President Trump indicated this is a temporary pause to see if an agreement can be reached. I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and some others if we could put it off for two or three days, a short period of time, because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal. And if we can do that where there's no nuclear weapon going into the hands of Iran, I think, and if they're satisfied, we will be probably satisfied also. The Iranians released a few statements overnight with the country's president, Massoud Possesskian, saying dialogue does not mean surrender. And a senior Iranian official, Mohsen Rezai, attacking President Trump on X, saying he sets a deadline for a military attack and then cancels it himself with the false hope that he will surrender. The Iranian nation and officials, the iron fist of the powerful armed forces and the great nation of Iran, will force them to retreat and surrender. Surrender. Still a lot of tough tuck. Tough, tough talk from Gulf countries. And we have a situation now where the region is still waiting to see if the war will resume in the days ahead. Guys, wow. a lot, a lot hanging in the Middle East.
Walker: I don't think there will be an Iran deal
Walker Wildmon Well, there you have it. That's a Fox Report from Trey Yingst, covering where we are in recent weeks on this situation. here's my honest assessment. Just as an outsider looking in. I don't think there's going to be a deal with Iran. I just don't. I mean, we're two months into this. They've, look, Iran is hurting now. they've been hurting. So this notion that there's, quote, more pressure to bring on Iran, folks, that's just not. That's just not accurate. You can't keep saying that, oh, we can do more. We can corner Iran. We can, you know, we can, you know, metaphorically put our boot on their neck. We can just squeeze them. folks, these are ideologues, okay? These are, these are religious ideologues that believe in a false God and they think they're going to get virgins when they get martyred. They think they're going to go to heaven and get, you know, X amount of virgins when they, when they get martyred. That's, their viewpoint. So, this is, this is a. This is. They're religious fanatics, that are. And they're not rooted in common sense. They're not rooted in objectivity. They're not rooted in even self interest. Self preservation isn't a thing for these folks. That's why they do suicide vest. So this notion that Iran is a rational actor and you can pressure them to the table, folks, is fairytale land. And I don't know when the talking heads in the media and even when some in the White House are gonna figure this thing out. There is no deal to be made here. There will not be an Iran deal. Okay, Is the only way President Obama got them to the table was to send them billions in cash. And that was probably a stretch to get them to the table. So I just think, look, we're over two months through this, going on three months, and it's the same thing every week, folks. There is no deal to be made here. Iran is not coming to the table. Even the president admits that. He's not even sure who he's negotiating with because they've all been, assassinated through military strikes. So. But that's not a doom and gloom assessment. That's just, hey, we've got to figure out another path here, which I think there are multiple paths, to get through this and for the US to ultimately declare victory. But it's not going to look like your traditional, like a peace treaty or Iran and the US And Israel all meet and have a big summit and we all sign the peace deals. it's probably not going to look like that. It's not going to be pretty. It may not be finite or like have a definite timeframe on it, but nonetheless, that's where we are.
Peter Navaro: Opening the Strait of Hormuz is difficult
And I wanted to, read this, latest report of what happened in recent weeks in the Strait of Hormuz, because this is important when you're looking at the overall assessment here and the likelihood of reopening the Strait. Let me just tell you what this gentleman, Jim, Bianco put out, he's an economic researcher, puts out excellent information. But this gentleman, and we'll link to this in the show notes, Jim Bianco put out a post saying opening the Strait of Hormuz is not just a matter of will. We don't have a sustainable military answer right now because we don't have a defensive shield against asymmetric warfare, cheap drones and missiles, as Ukraine has against Russia. When the US Launched Project Freedom roughly three or four weeks ago, three guided missile destroyers were sent through the Strait to escort commercial shipping. The Navy came under a sustained barrage of Iranian drones and missiles and intercepted 100% of the attacks. Yet the defensive effort after just two days was extraordinarily resource intensive. It nearly depleted the missile magazines of two guided missile destroyers and required support for more than 100 aircraft. It cost an estimated 50 to 100 million dollars to just get two commercial ships through safely over two days. This model is completely unsustainable. Beyond a beef brief demonstration, the US Cannot realistically guarantee a perfect interception record against repeated sustained barrages. All it would take is one drone or missile getting through and the images of a burning American warship would be a major political disaster. And so this is, once again, this is a post by Jim Bianco that I'll link to. But his, his assessment, I believe is, is fully accurate. That's what happened because President Trump called off Project Freedom within hours. He announced it on the weekend, and then by Monday morning he said, whoa, whoa, whoa, we're not doing this anymore. And he tried to blame Arab nations, saying they requested him pause it. The fact of the matter is, is that we did, our US Military did transit the Strait of Hormuz. We did escort a couple ships through the Strait of Hormuz. But it wasn't without cost and it wasn't without risk. It was a very risky maneuver. We thankfully did it successfully. No US Assets were damaged, no US Military members were harmed. So in essence it was a success. But the problem is, can you do that day in and day out? And what this Gentleman Jim Bianco is saying is you just can't do that. You cannot spend 50 to 100 million dollars over a 48 hour period and do that for weeks and months to no end. and not to mention if a commercial, passenger vessel or a US warship, ah, is damaged, that's not going to be good. Not just from the lives that are harmed, but also from a political vantage point. And so what we're beginning to realize, and more people need to, acknowledge this, is that Iran has the Strait of Hormuz closed. All right? Despite the fact that we have depleted and severely set back their military on land, their ability to project military power in the Strait is still a thing. And it's such a presence that even the US Military is not transiting the Strait of Hormuz because of the sheer risk of lives lost and damaged to our assets. And so out of all of this, pretty much the only leverage that Iran has left is the Strait of Hormuz. And if you would have asked me three to six months ago, do you think Iran can keep the Strait of Hormuz closed, I would have said no. There's no way. There's no way they have the military power to keep international waters closed. But folks, they do. They do. And I'm not saying I like it, and I'm not rooting against the US or rooting for Iran under any circumstance. I'm just telling you there's a lot of this stuff that is not being talked about widespread in the media. And you're just not seeing people talk about the fact that Iran is dominating the Strait of Hormuz. They are in full control of any vessel that transits international waters between, the Arab nations to the west and the Iranian shorelines. And so that leaves us in a place where we're either going to have to forcefully disable all of Iranians, military assets that are currently posing a threat, or we're going to have to give up something in negotiations that causes Iran, to cut a deal. I want to listen. I want you to listen to, this clip for. This is Peter Navarro, the trade, basically chief, trade, negotiator, and economist at the White House, talking about claiming that the US Controls the Strait of Hormuz. This is clip four. Deal. Now look at what we've done to rob Venezuela. Chinese are out of there, Cuba out of there. That's the Don Road doctrine. And the United States military right now controls the Strait of Hormuz, which means it controls the supply of oil not just to China, but to the entire, east. Okay, The Far east, as they used to call it. So you're making m. This one big. There's a big problem. I deal now. Right? Look at what we've. So that's, that's Peter Navarro. Here's what I want to point out. Look, and I'm not, I'm not trying to be, you know, unnecessarily provocative or, you know, criticize the U.S. like some are incessantly. I'm just trying to bring, the most realistic and honest assessment to the conversation that I don't think is getting near enough coverage. Okay, there. Peter Navarro claims that the US Controls the Strait of Hormuz. Fully controls it, folks. That's not true. That, that is. That is factually not true. Now what he would say is, well, we're controlling. We're keeping vessels from porting in Iran. We're controlling any vessel that goes in or out of Iranian ports, and we're blocking that. Well, okay, that. That is true. We are doing that, and we're doing it very well. We have been for weeks now. A vessel has not docked or departed Iranian shores in weeks. And then that is, that is a fact. But this notion that the US is controlling the Strait of Hormuz is just not true. It's factually not true. And it's so not true that our own military vessels are not even going in the Strait Straight because of fear of being shot. so that's where we are today. And I just think we've got to be more honest about this outlook. A lot of the economists, a lot of the folks on the more optimistic side say that, you know, the Straight will be reopened in weeks or whatever. And I don't know whether it will or whether it won't. But I'm just telling you, looking at the past 60 days, this is not looking like a brief endeavor. This is not looking, looking like an excursion. This is looking more like a 6 to 12 month conflict that optimistically and hopefully the US comes out on the winning side of this entire conversation. We'll be back in a few.
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American Family Radio features US Congressman Barry Moore on today's program
Welcome back to the Core here on American Family Radio. Glad to have you with us here on the program. in the past and we try to do this on occasion. We try to highlight, representatives or lawmakers and governors and state officials that are, fighting for the things that we believe in and doing good work in not, only state capitals, but the US Capitol as well. And there are many of them out there to highlight. And so I wanted to bring on a friend of the ministry that has been recently to our headquarters and visited with our team. He was on today's issues, and talked to US Congressman Barry Moore, ah, representing the state of Alabama, currently representing district, ah, one in Alabama, but also running for the US Senate seat there. Congressman Moore, welcome to the program.
Barry Moore Good morning, Walker. Great to be on with you.
US Rep. Barry Moore is running for U.S. senate in Alabama
Walker Wildmon Well, Representative Moore, before we get into this, U.S. senate race that you're currently competing in, I want to give. Give our audience a little bit of background about your time in Congress and, some of the things that you've done, during your time there in the U.S. house of Representatives.
Barry Moore Yeah, so I got elected in 2020, went to Congress about a, little over five years ago now, and, joined the House Freedom Caucus. And, you know, just. I have a really conservative district along the southern part of the state of Alabama. And. And, you know, we've got a, I think a really, really solid record as a conservative, Christian conservative and pro life, pro family kind of issues. And so I actually cut my teeth on, your granddad's show. Used to listen to him and then go to Rush Limbaugh. And I was fresh out of college, so I'd listen to that. And, the two of those helped strongly form my political and spiritual beliefs. And so it was kind of a neat thing. Now I see myself. I'm actually a garbage man in real life. So the transition from garbage politics is pretty easy to make. I tell everybody. But, been in D.C. five years and, you know, it's been a blessing. I was early with the president. I was the first elected official in the nation to endorse him. And August 21, 2015, in lab people Stadium, he came to Mobile. And I was in the state legislature. I'd served two terms and kind of term limited myself, was getting ready to go to the House, and. And, this guy Donald Trump was coming down NewSong York, you know, and there were a lot of people in that primary, but Heather and I were. We got a piece about endorsing a guy in M. NewSong York City because they knocked on the door, so would any of y' all be willing to endorse? And we went prayed down the hall Got a piece about endorsing this guy who didn't have a chance. I think there was a 1% chance that he was going to get that nomination, and he ended up winning the thing. And, so we were the first elected official in the nation to endorse a guy who didn't have a chance. And so been with the president for 11 years. In the fight. His team asked us to run for Congress, and we did that. And the Lord's been faithful, man. He's been so faithful.
Walker Wildmon Yeah, that loyalty, obviously, President Trump values loyalty and relationships. And, anyone who came out and kind of stuck their neck out in 2015, those relationships and that loyalty has definitely paid off. And there's other instances of that, not just, with your example there, but that's a long time. and you've been, fighting, obviously, in Congress for the last five or six years. the U.S. senate seat in Alabama. Correct me if I'm wrong, but current US Senator Tommy Tuberville is running for governor. That opens the door up for a seat, there, for an election there for the U.S. senate. first off, how are. How is the election? Is the Tommy Tuberville gubernatorial election pretty much in the basket? And then tell us about your, run, for U.S. senate and what the outlook is there.
Barry Moore Yeah, I think Coach is in a good spot. He and I went to DC at the same time, and my liberty scores one point higher than his. He's very competitive, so I pick on him all the time. But we. We're the two top guys in Washington, D.C. that are fighting from Alabama to protect your liberty. If you look at just our liberty score, and I talk about it all the time, and I'm like, you know, we. If you're out, in public and you commit a crime, we take your liberty. That's how we actually punish you. But it. It blows my mind. We actually elect people who voluntarily give our liberty away every day. And so, when Coach decided to run for governor, I got a lot of calls. A lot of my conservative friends were like, man. And I didn't really want to do it. I'll be honest with you. I tried to pray, I tried to talk the Lord out of it, but he told me, not that this was my call and not this was my ministry, but it was my assignment. And so, we've been in this thing, and it's going well. The president has endorsed us. We've been leading in the polls. He endorsed in January, and so he's, doing Calls around the state, farming videos, and so got a lot of key endorsements. Turning point, obviously, and J.D. vance, Tim Burchett, Jim Jordan, all those guys that know me and see me. And I've been in. I've been in the heat a lot over the five years, even a little longer than that. And so, for. For those guys to see us and come out and stand with us, it means a lot. And loyalty matters in this world. There's a. It's hard to find it in Washington, D.C. so to your point, the President appreciates it.
Walker Wildmon Yeah. Well, I'll just say from my perspective, and you and I have met in person on one occasion, but we've talked on multiple. And I've talked with your team as well. This, you know, some people have the ability to kind of judge someone, but kind of on the book cover, so to speak, which is counter to what we're told we're supposed to do. Don't judge a book by its cover. but when I met you and your wife and heard a little bit about your story and your business background and the fact that your son and your family are helping with the family business, it was just encouraging to hear. And, you're a true fighter. Your record shows it. you're not, quote, new to this fight. and so, I do value that. And, I'm very impressed with your work. Ah, Senator. I was going to say, Senator Moore, maybe I will be saying that at some point after November, but, Congressman Moore, the US Senate just seems to be in a log jam. And so, the more people we can send there, like yourself, the more we can hopefully build kind of a coalition of conservative Republican senators that will hopefully get some stuff done.
Rep Moore says Republicans need to nuke filibuster to pass Trump agenda
So talk a little bit about that and just the need for, the Republicans in the Senate, to get more done legislatively so we can codify some of the stuff that President Trump's doing.
Barry Moore Yeah. You know, to that point, I think when I went to dc, Joining the House Freedom Caucus in the Congressional side was kind of my friends, and they are armor bearers. And, look, we don't all agree in that room all the time, but I can tell you when I leave, that's about the only place I feel like I don't need a shower when I leave room in D.C. because we're in there. We're patriots, we're in the fight. And so you have to surround yourself in the Senate. And I think it's important that the people understand that if we go into Republican primaries and we elect true conservatives. They can pull the entire delegation to conservative ideas. In other words, we can hold and pull and negotiate. We've done that very successfully as House Freedom Caucuses. There are only 40 of us out of 435. But we've been able to move that needle to the right more akin to what we really think the Constitution and the people of the country appreciate. And so you have to do the same thing. And look, I'm one of the guys that thinks we need to nuke the filibuster. I'll just be honest with you. I don't. You know, Cinnamon and Mancha were the only two Democrats that held that up, and they're both gone. And so Democrats, if they get. My concern is if they get the Senate, they will nuke it. They will turn D.C. to a state. They'll have two more votes there. They'll stack the Supreme Court. And so we. We need to get this America first agenda across finish line. When you really push to nuke the filibuster, because it makes sense that we have US citizens with IDs voting in US elections. That's just common sense. And it polls them. If you look at it, even the Democrats are like 70%, 76%, 6% of the Democrats.
Walker Wildmon Yeah. Think that we need.
Barry Moore And yet we can't get a single Democrat to help us get it across the finish line. Maybe Fetterman might jump ship, I don't know. But for the most part, we don't have any help. And so the filibuster, that 60 vote thing, just doesn't work.
Walker Wildmon No, it doesn't. And to your point, I mean, a prime example recently is when the Democrats kept the Department of Homeland Security shut down for like three months. Two or three months. partially shut down. You got TSA not getting paid. All of this during some peak travel seasons. And we've got the Iran situation going on, so the threat level is elevated at our airports. And the Democrats kept it shut down all over Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which was already paid, so it wasn't like they could even affect that. They're paid through the next couple years. But the Democrats. Basically, my point is, the Democrats kept a critical agency of the government, the Department of Homeland Security, partially shut down for over two months because they basically were trying to extort President Trump to give them all these wish list items. And so it's become very. The 60 vote thing, which is not. And you know this, I'm not, Not teaching you anything. But for our audience, the 60 vote. So called filibuster, in practice is not really even a filibuster because they don't actually talk. It's more of just the rule, that they use to block stuff. But nonetheless, it's actually created a lot of dysfunction. They say it creates consensus and bipartisanship, but in reality it's created a lot of dysfunction and inconsistent government funding. And so I'm with you. It's got to be done away with. And Republicans just got to lead because I'm with you 100%. Democrats are going to get rid of it. They're going to get rid of it when they're in charge. They tried under President Biden, and we're two votes away from getting rid of the filibuster. And Kamala Harris, the former Vice president, was on a podcast recently talking about how they want to pack the court, they want to get rid of the filibuster. I mean, she was going through their wish list of stuff that she says they're going to do if they get control. we've been talking to U.S. congressman Barry Moore representing, currently representing Alabama District 1, but he's also running for the U.S. senate seat there in Alabama. Representative Moore, last word on some of the things, that you're looking forward to doing in Washington and fighting for the people of Alabama.
Barry Moore Yeah. So I think it's important that we just, you know, we got to codify what the president's trying to do. He has done a fine job on executive orders, but, you know, like, I know at the end of the day, if a Democrat president comes in with a pen and a phone, he can undo so much of that. And so it's vitally important. I think we need to nuke to fill a bus or get the Save America act, cross the finish line. And we've done a fine job in the House of getting the 12 approach. But it's like you said, they use that as leverage, the cbp, just to shut down, TSA so they could just make it hard on the American citizens. So, I think it's important that not only we get the new filibuster to finish that America first agenda, but we codify the President's executive order so the next president, if he's not, if he's a leftist, he can't come in and undo what President Trump and the American people want to be done in this country.
Walker Wildmon Absolutely. Couldn't agree more. And we need more people like you, and the other senators. There's a good handful of Republican senators that are doing the right thing and trying to fight, to get some of this stuff codified. So we just need to keep adding to the fold, if you will, to increase, the numbers there in Washington D.C. ah, Congressman Barrymore, thanks for coming on and best of luck in your U.S. senate race.
Barry Moore Thank you, my friend. God bless.
Walker Wildmon Absolutely. That's, current US Congressman Barry Moore in Alabama running for the, US Senate seat there to replace, current US Senator Tommy Tuberville, who's running for the governor's seat there in Alabama. So Alabama's just got a lot of good fighters, both at the state level and the federal level as well. And, you know, the U.S. senate has actually been trending more and more conservative, at least the Republican caucus. Because when you look at, where we were with Mitch M. McConnell as the majority leader back even during the first Trump administration, there weren't near as many, you know, freedom, caucus types in the US Senate, even though the Freedom Caucus is over in the, in the House. But those kind of people, there weren't really a lot of them. But now we saw with this Senate Majority Leader election with Jon Thune, and then you had Rick Scott from Florida also running for that position, we saw like 10 or 12 holdouts, 10 or 12 conservative Republican senator holdouts that were really concerned about Thune being the leader and really wanted someone like Rick Scott. And I understand, look, when you're looking at 50, 53 senators and you've got 12 holdouts, I understand that's just not a whole lot. it's definitely not 50%. But looking where we've come from, that's a big deal. And if we continue one, two, three at a time, getting solid conservative US Senators elected from around the country, folks, over time you could get to 20, 30, 35, solid conservative senators, Republican senators in the U.S. senate, and there's a lot of leverage there. The more you add to their number ideologically, the more power they can exert, the more negotiating power that they have with leadership and with the White House and others. So, one election at a time, ah, surely but slowly will continue to improve, the outlook of those in the U.S. senate.
The US House of Representatives is up for grabs in November elections
folks, this, this election is going to be a big deal coming up in November. It's going to be a big deal for multiple reasons. But I just want to re, kind of litigate, if you will, the reasons why November is important. First off, at a bare minimum, we know that the Democrats, if they get back control, if they get control of the US House of Representatives, which is the most hotly contested chamber right now. We know, based on what the Democrats have said themselves, that they want to impeach President Trump yet again. And I know you and I hear that, and we're like, really? What are you gonna impeach him for? the fact of the matter is it doesn't matter to them, all right? They're not looking for just cause, or they're not looking for, you know, a viable impeachment provision or alleged crime. What they're looking for is sheer political retribution and sheer punishment of President Trump, just like they did with Nancy Pelosi in charge. And Hakeem Jeffries is cut from the same cloth, he'll do the exact same thing. And so one thing that you're doing if you don't, if you keep the Democrats from taking the House of Representatives, one thing that you're doing is you're preventing said impeachment that surely will take place. you're preventing that from happening and preventing the president and the White House from having to go through that entire saga and months of wasted time and wasted money, millions of dollars in resources, with the executive branch and the legislative branch going through that entire impeachment saga. And it eats away at the calendar, at the legislative calendar, and the ability for the legislature to actually get good stuff done. secondly, the Democrats, look, if they take over the House, they're going to use their, votes to block a lot of the spending President Trump and Republicans want to do. They'll also try, through negotiation and legislative and financial extortion, to prevent President Trump from even funding basic elements of the government. And so, look, the Democrats are so partisan, they're so divisive that you give them an ounce of power, folks, they will destroy so much. They will wreak so much havoc, so much chaos. And we see what they're doing now, and they're in the minority, so you can just imagine what will happen if they're in the majority. That's what's at stake this November and much more. Right now. The voices in our culture are loud, but truth is often silent. And today, preborns need you to help speak that truth. Women facing unplanned pregnancies are often pressured to act quickly before they have time to pause, breathe, or, hear the truth about life, dignity, and hope. But I refuse to be silent, and I'm asking you to join me. At PreBorn Network clinics, a woman is welcomed with compassion and given a free ultrasound. She sees the life growing inside her, often for the very first time. And in that sacred moment, fear gives way to clarity. And she's offered something abortion industry will never provide the hope of Jesus Christ. This April, our goal is to have 11,000 gospel conversations in PreBorn network clinics, trusting God to bring the increase as we remain faithful to speak. You can help make that possible by sponsoring ultrasounds. Just $28 provides one ultrasound and $140 provides five free ultrasounds for mothers in crisis. Every dollar helps save babies and share the hope of the gospel. To donate, dial pound 250 and say the keyword baby. That's pound 250 and say the keyword baby dot or visit preborn.com afr that's preborn.com afr the views and opinions expressed in this broadcast may not necessarily reflect those of the American Family association or American Family Radio.
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