February 27, 2025 • 35 mins
The United States is much less Christian than in the past, but the falloff may have hit bottom. National Correspondent RORY O’NEILL joins us in telling the story.
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This is ed from Gilbert Arizona. I'm stunned that you
didn't mention Gene Hackman's role as Little Bill in Unforgiven.
He kicked the snot out of Richard Harris. He then
went on to bully Clint East would now that was
frightening while he was torturing Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It was a great movie. Ac a disorder, and all
I could think of is it's either windy in the
desert or I actually thought I heard spokes. I think
he was on a bicycle and called that. You think so,
I kind of hear a bike, But that's just me.
French connection and unforgiven are the two in his fifty
year career. He got an oscar for Gene Hackman is
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dead at the age of ninety five. Waking up this morning.
Roy O'Neil is joining us. The United States is much
less Christian than in the past. There's kind of two
sides of that coin. There's no question Christianity fell off
over a twenty year period sixteen percent, but it is
now leveled off. I don't know that. I wouldn't make
the headline rory Christianity is the falling of Christianity to America.
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Has stopped falling, hasn't risen, but it stopped falling. Was
kind of what it might take away. But what was yours?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well right, the same and even the Pew Research Center
that conducted this study, and really it's a survey of
thirty six thousand people. Now people don't realize that's like
twenty times more the size of a polling sample. You're
saying for some presidential poll, thirty six thousand is massive.
And their headline was decline of Christianity in the US
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has slowed, may have leveled off. That's how they described it.
In this Religious Landscape study, they find that sixty two
percent of Americans still identify as Christian, about forty percent
of them Protestant, nineteen percent Catholic. But they're seeing more
people who identify as Muslim. For instance, since two thousand
and seven, that number has essentially tripled fro zero point
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four percent to one point two.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I was gonna spare you, because you know you're a
news person, but I'm gonna have a conversation as soon
as we're done on why that number stuck out at me,
and just to give people some food for thought with that.
But to go back to the numbers. Overall, in two
thousand and seven, seventy eight percent of US adults identified
as Christians of some sort or another, Catholic, Protestant, what
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have you, but christ centered Christian. That was nearly eight
and ten. That was in two thousand and seven. Then
it fell to seventy one percent in twenty fourteen, and
then by twenty that was a sixteen point drop by
twenty fourteen, and then now what we're seeing is a
leveling off sixty two, sixty four, sixty two, So it
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has kind of kind of leveled off. But when you
pile through all these numbers, just like everything we see,
even when we're doing political landscapes younger and that's who's
been targeted with these messages of political correctness or universalism
or moral relativism. The younger numbers are still low, the
older numbers are still high, and of course the older
numbers are dying, so that much is still in place.
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I took this though in kind of compared it to
what we're all feeling. There seems to be a cultural shift,
whether you call it a cultural reawakening. The last time
America had a big cultural awakening was in the seventies,
the Hippie movie, the movement that morphed into the Jesus
movement that morphed into a spiritual revival. And you wonder
what the cultural shift If the spiritual shift is coming well.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
And you're also seeing more people identify as being spiritual
and not necessarily identifying with a church in particular a
specific Protestant faith or Roman Catholicism or whatever. So you're
seeing a more broader spirituality recognition rather than a church.
And Q finds that since twenty twenty, we have seen
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some signs of religious stability across all age demographics. Yeah,
and on that note, eighty six percent believe people have
a soul or a spirit in addition to their physical body,
but not a creator, not a God, not a place
that spirit necessarily goes. But they all still believe in that.
That's the spirituality aspect. Eighty three percent believe in God
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or a universal spirit. So this is the university intelligency, OPRAH,
Hollywood influence on a culture. But the numbers are starting
to level off. Not so much of an uptick with
the youth though, but no, and we are seeing a
long term decline in Christianity, much more pronounced among political
liberals than among conservatives.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Then we talked about Gene Hackman. Somebody was critical of
me saying, you know, why would you assume there was
some kind of a suicide. A dog can't kill himself, Well,
but you could, you know, whatever you chose, you could
do the dog, then do each other. But it's either
going to be we know, no foul play, but you
find Gene Hackman is much younger, wife and dog all dad.
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I mean that just screams some kind of carbon monoxide
gas leak or suicide. Usually that's what that means.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yeah, I would just say the only phrase that was
missing was we're not searching for any suspects. When the
public information officers use that line, that typically indicates it
was a murder suicide, right, But that I didn't see
that line per se.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So again it'll be.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Just with more hours we'll get a lot more clarity
about the situation.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I appreciate your great report today, Rory O'Neil, thanks for
joining us. All right, I'm gonna do this part. That's
a little bit what I would say. I wouldn't put
Rory through it appropriately, all right. So if if you
have an open front door, all right, just to use
an analogy, and anybody can come through, and anybody seemingly
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is coming through, it's going to change the makeup of
the family. So if I didn't lock my doors at night,
just as a form of an analogy, my home is
one hundred percent Galatians two twenty Christian. But if I
don't have a door that's locked and people start coming in. Well,
some that break in might be Catholics. Some that break
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or if their family was Catholic, they're not obviously living
the Catholic police by breaking into a home and then
just staying. Some might be Muslims, some might be Hindus,
some might be Buddhists, some might be atheists, diagnostic. It's
going to change the percentages. So and I think it
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is mostly this, but don't make the assumption. Well, summer
around two thousand and seven, that's not being a godly country,
whether it became humanistic, moral relativistic, universalists. Universalists, by the way,
is all things to God, no matter how you live.
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All Gods are the same, with all evidence to the contrary.
That's probably the main cause of a sixteen percent fall.
And then we know the consistent and persistent in doctrination
from children's programming to K through twelve, to higher education,
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to cartoons, to sitcoms, to dramas, to motion pictures to music.
I mean, do you ever just stop and think? I
do all the time. As troubling as the seventies were
a little marijuana streaking, I'm try to think what our
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big rebellions were. How would you like to be a
kid today. You go to school, you have a trust
for teachers, and they sell you narratives as fact, revised
history as accurate. You're being pummeled from every side that
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anything you believe is hate towards another, and then it's
reinforced in every song you listen to, every show you watch,
every celebrity that gets a microphone placed in front of them.
I just watched my kids grow up, and I saw
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it coming. I'll never forget. This is if you could
have been a fly on the wall in my life
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, about and I don't want to exaggerate, literally,
about five months after I brought my twin girls home,
there was a knock on the door and they're doing
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a welfare check on my daughters. And it didn't take
but a minute or two. And I was a talk
show host, so I kind of knew what it was
before it arrived. But I let him talk, and then
I realized they weren't checking on my daughters, they were
checking up on us. It ended with a kind of
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an archie bunker, get the hell out of here. Well you,
So I knew it was coming. But when I look
back and now my daughters are twenty, my son is eighteen.
I think they grew up in the most difficult twenty years.
Only a living God still reigning in might, still close
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to the hearts and minds of those who follow him,
with a gentle spirit that guards and protects. Only that
is the only thing I can look at and say,
my kids survived it. Our kids are growing up in
a culture unrecognizable from the one we grew up in,
from textbook to curriculum, to lecture, to music, to video
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games to social media. Don't you love how we I mean,
this is the one good thing I would say, although
I don't You're gonna hate this. I had one of
the most traumatic bullying examples in my childhood. I went
to a school in a very upper middle class neighborhood
where everybody, you know, we didn't have chauffeurs and limousines,
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but everybody had whatever the cool shoes were, whatever the
cool jeans were, whatever the cool shirts were. But there
was one kid who lived in a poor neighbor that
happened to be districted in the same school, and he
wore the same and they weren't even like jeans that
were being kind of easy to not recognize. They were
striped jeans, red green blue, a baby blue T shirt
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with holes in it. He wore the same T shirt,
the same pants, and the same worn out shoes to
school every day, and people picked on him. And when
I was in the seventh grade, he went upstairs, put
a noose around his neck and jumped out his window.
And I remember when kids would bully him, I would
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always kind of come and befriend him and encourage him.
I don't know why this haunts me, and it's haunted
me for almost forty five years. Well, I had never
dawned on me to bring him some shoes from home,
or bring him a couple of pair of pants. It's
just never dawned on me. So I had one of
the most traumatic bullying experiences. I often thought about if
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I ever, if I ever have any kind of notoriety
or influence, I will start some type of foundation to
provide for kids like this in his name. But we've
rooted out bullying. It good. There's no bullying at schools anymore. No,
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it's happening much more effectively and decisively on social media,
and nobody's checking it. I got two minutes, so look
some of this is by design as a result of
the attacks, the reshaping, and the de christianizing of America,
because you got to get rid of God and then
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you got to get rid of family if you're really
going to control this thing. And then this is the
amount of people that have poured in unchecked has changed
the makeup. But of all the things that Rory brought
up this, I want to give you Jewish population steady
one point seven percent in two thousand and seven one
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point seven percent and twenty twenty three twenty four, Buddhist
point seven point seven one point one. It's up a tick,
can do point four point seven point nine steady growth.
And we know the amount of India Indians that have
come into this country doing great things and great job
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and they're bringing that with them. The other in terms
of the effectiveness of making us atheist one four one
eight two two. Actually that would be non Christian religions.
Atheists are non religious four seven five nine seven one.
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So there's upticks there. But Muslim tripled tripled in fifteen years. Now.
I'm just gonna throw this out. It's just food for thought,
and I'm not paranoid, but I can tell you in
my studies of Islam. There are two types of Islamists,
and Islam, by the way, is not a religion. It's
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a system of life. It's a form of government. It's
a form of justice. It's a system for life to
which all rights are given or not given. There are
those that are political cultural and they play very patiently,
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and then there are those that are warriors and lived
by the sword. In jihadists, that's because there are three
examples of Muhammad, all conflicting, peaceful, intolerant, political and disruptive
warrior and conquering. The Jihadis will attack like nine to eleven.
They will attack like at a marathon. But the political
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patient islamis like the second example of Mohammed. They populate, infiltrate, disrupt,
wage war and takeover. Now, the number it would take
would be somewhere. I mean, look at the amount you
get now or you were getting. I think it might
be ending. But that number gets to about five percent.
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Look out, twenty percent leads to takeover. Keep an eye
on that number. Of all the numbers, that's the one
that stuck out of me, and that's the ones that
respond to a poll from pure research. Bottom line, the
fall of Christianity stop falling. It's leveled off. There is
a cultural awakening, we all see it. The last time
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there was a cultural awakening like this was when the
Hippie movement morphed into the Jesus movement. Usually, cultural movements
are followed by spiritual revivals as a revival on the horizon. Well,
the fall has certainly steadied. That is our journey of discovery.
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all right. Thirty six after the hour, they say deaths
happened in threes, Well they happened three all at once
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Robert John topped the charts in October of nineteen seventy nine,
was sad Eyes followed that up with the remake of
The Tokens Lion Sleeps Tonight. Two big hits in one year.
Born Robert John Pedrick died Monday at the age of
seventy nine. The other was and I didn't see any
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of these shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, gossip Girl. She
was in several things. Actress Michelle Trachtenberg has died at
the age of thirty nine. I know she was a
heavy drinker and had a liver transplant. We believe it
was complications due to the transplant. And then the Biggie
ninety five years old Gene Hackman is dead. Police in
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New Mexico sa Hackman and his wife were found dead
in their Santa Fe home on Wednesday afternoon. The Santa
Fe Sheriff's Office says they do not believe foul play
was a factor. Local reports say the actor's dog was
also found dead in the restaurant in the residence. Now,
we have much speculation that this could have been a
gas leak, carbon monoxide something like that, or potentially the
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family you know, decided to all go together. We don't know,
and it's very premature to even speculate, but it is
an odd circumstance that they're all dead. My wife told
me the big thing on the internet is the big
gossip is that he was going to be revealed in
the Jeffrey Epstein Black Book League, and perhaps that's why
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he and that's you know again, ninety five years old
is a long long life, but his wife is like
thirty years younger, and for her to die in The
Dog to Die, there's obviously something more going Two oscars
in his fifty year career, French Connection and Unforgiven obviously
spectacular performances, but with Gene Hackman, and it spanned so many,
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from Bonnie and Clyde to the Poseidon Adventure to Hoosiers,
to Replacements to the Firm to Superman, I mean, there's
no telling what's going through your mind. So we've had
people using the talkback button today to honor Gene Hackman
sharing their favorite performance of his end movie. There were
so many. He was single handedly and I grew up
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in a time where everybody said Robert de Niro, everybody
said al Pacino. I was always saying Gene Hackman is
my favorite actor and his body of work speaks for itself.
Gone at the age of ninety five. That's three big
deaths in a single day. Sounds of the Day, I'm
going to start with a disclaimer the show before we
went on the air, it was about I don't know,
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four o'clock in the morning, and I said to rad
I said, well, Sounds of the Day isn't going to work.
But it's not your fault, because the only way you
could really appreciate this is to have watched the entire
cabinet meeting and its entirety. And if I broke down
the first cabinet meeting to you, I would say, probably
what Elon Musk said, and I have said this days
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and even a couple of weeks ago. This may be
the greatest cabinet in the history of the presidency. This
is an amazing table full of people, and they are
laser focused, and they've already done more in the first
thirty days, some of them not even being in a
place a week, and they are determined to do much
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much more over the next four years. There were a
lot of other differences that stuck out in my head.
You're going to hear this in the Sounds of the
Day opening in prayer. Over all the speculation, what's Elon
Musk doing at the table of a cabinet meeting? Well,
I could play you one of Biden's cabinet meetings with
his wife at the head of the table. What was
that all about, Alfie? And everybody said, well, I wonder
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if he'll be sitting down. No, I said, he'd be
standing behind those sitting. He's not a cabinet member. He's
serving at the pleasure of the president. He'll be standing.
And that's common, that's not new, but it's all a
part of the left obstruction narrative. He did speak, and
he had some amazing things to say. But the bottom
line is unless you sat down and Biden went like
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a year without even having a cabinet meeting. But if
you watched one of Biden's full cabinet meetings, sleepy stuttering,
reading off a piece of paper, his wife at the
head of the table, no energy, no real focus, no
real determination, and then watched what I watched an entire
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cabinet meeting yesterday, doesn't work for Sound of the Day,
But that would be the only way to come away
with what really happened. So a couple of moments that
I was struck by the way it began, the fact
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that he called it grace, which I know some of
you are going to make fun of, but we often say,
this is a different Donald Trump, having nearly been assassinated twice,
once shot in the head. It's a different cabinet because
of the makeup of the cabinet and their priorities were
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evident right from the start.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Listen, before we begin the cabinet, I'd like to have
Scott and a couple of people say a few things,
but most importantly, where are you. This is a gentleman
who's going places the head of hunt and he's going.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
To say you all know, and you're going to say grace.
And if they want of our meeting, right, thank you
very much.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Let's praise Father.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
We thank you for this awesome, privileged father to be
in your presence. Y'all, thank you that you've allowed us
to see this day. The Bible says that our merciers
are new every morning, and Father God would give you
the glory and honor. Thank you God for President Trump,
Father for appointing us.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Father God, thank you for anointing us to do this job.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Father, we pray you will give the President the vice
president wisdom, Father God, as they lead. Father, I pray
for all of our colleagues that are here around the
table and in this room. Lord God, we pray that
we would lead with a righteous clarity, Father God, that
as we serve the people of this country and every
prospective agency, every job that we have, Father, we would
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humble ourselves before you, and we would lead in a
manner that you called us to lead and to serve.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Father.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
The Bible says the blessed is a nation whose God
is the Lord Will.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Father, we today honor you and in your.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Rightful place, Father, thank you for giving us this opportunity
to restore faith in this country and be a blessing
to the people of America. The Lord God, Today in
our meeting, we pray that you would be glorified in
our conversation in Jesus name. Amen.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I mean, I happen to be watching it live, and
I wasn't trying to be emotional, just my eyes were panning.
It's a pretty breathtaking room. The table itself catches my eye.
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The chairs look so plush and comfortable. That leather looks
so soft. But I'm looking around at RFK Junior, the
North Dakota Governor, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth Pam Bam. I'm
just looking at this table with accomplished people, amazing stories,
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amazing track records, perhaps the best assembled cabinet I don't
know ever. And then that prayer began the priority of
prayer before business. Every single word of that prayer I
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could play about five times for you, the humility, whom
they serve, how they serve, great leaders all serve, and
leaders prioritize in God and country. I wasn't even trying,
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and tears, hot tears started going down my cheeks, because
how long I've prayed for this, how long you've prayed
for this? If my people will confess their sins, repent,
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humble themselves in prayer, I'll never forget. I wrote my
book twenty four years ago. Every time I autographed it
for somebody, I would put second chronicle seven fourteen, the
risk of being dramatic. That room, those people, starting with
that act and the words of that prayer. Hot tears
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down my cheeks, and I hope they were flowing down
yours all right, where was Elon Musk not seated at
the table? He's not a cabinet member. He's serving at
the pleasure of the president, and he was standing, and
when called upon he answered the question.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yes, Well.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Like the I think that you know answer was first
interpreted as a proponent's review, but actually it was a
punch chat review.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You do you have a pulse? All right, kudos to Red.
My ten commandments don't allow me to brag about myself,
but I can brag about Red. You nailed it. That
email was not about harassment. That email was not about
you tell me what you did, five things you've done
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in the last week, or you're getting fired. It's exactly
what Red sensed. How many of these people even exist?
Are they on vacation, are they out of the country?
Are they even real? Checks are flowing to these people?
He mainly did the email just to see who's real.
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And I'll try to play it for you. But there's
other emails coming, there's other pulse checks coming.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
The President of Matter in Chief I do with the
president asks you, so, can we send out an email
to or one just saying what did you get about
last week? The President said yes, So did that, and
you know we forgot to a partial response. We're going
to send another email. Are goal is not to speak
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of precious or unfair. We want to give people every
opportunity to send an email. And the email could simply
be when I'm working on two centsinible cost byty to.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Describe that literally, just that would be sufficient. You know,
I think this is just common sense.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
And what is your target number for how many workers
employees you're looking to cut total? We wish to keep
everyone who is doing a job that is essential and
doing that job well.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We wish to keep any everyone who's doing a job
that's essential and a job well done. Wouldn't that be
any company? Hot tears down my cheeks, and there was
about an hour and a half of that. Could not
possibly do justice in this segment to it. But if
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you want to give yourself an American treat, you want
to give yourself a spiritual revival, especially you prayer warriors
that have been really praying for this nation to return
under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and
servant hearts statesmen, not politician. Your answered prayers are in
that video. Watch it. Let me know how your hot
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tears felt going down your cheek. I don't even know
if I want to do this one. This is a
senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former
USAID COO visiting with Sean Hannity about what this organization
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has been up to and where it's money's been flowing
and why no one's outraged.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Yeah, it is, and it's done America extreme harm overseas.
When you now you talk about American values in places
like Asia and Africa and Latin America, people run for
the hills because they associate American values with this kind
of woke ideology, with transgender surgeries, with a climate alarmism,
with abortion is done tremendous harm, and the national security
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implications from them are very severe, especially when we're trying
to compete against communists China.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
And the whole time he's talking tens of millions of
dollars scrolling. We have probably my favorite story of the day.
It's a Rasmusen poll. As President Trump's administration exposes wasteful
federal spending. You have what's left of the matrix and
the far left on the few channels that no one's
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watching or responding in polls. They're outraged at this destruction
of democracy. How dare an unelected person like Elon Musk
be firing innocent people? And yahdah, yeah, yeah, you know
what the real America's reaction is. Seventy percent of likely
voters say they're angry about the amount of waste, fraud,
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and abuse of their money. And that includes forty five
percent who are very angry. And just what in this poll,
just twenty five percent who aren't very angry about wasteful spending.
Amim had this right from the beginning. Oh, we're going
to be mad that Elon Musk is exposing this, not
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at they've been wasting this and for how many decades?
What's left of the matrix? They're down to about twenty
twenty five percent playing the role of obstructionist. Most of
America likes what this presidency is doing and they can't
do it fast enough. Final one only takes a couple
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of seconds. This one is good for sounds of the day.
In fact, it is the sound of a divorce.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Rumors continue to escalate for the Obamas.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Hopefully they can settle it, like men, what you didn't
go there? Room?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Did?
Speaker 9 (32:55):
Lord?
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Isn't it just doesn't make choice. And that's your sound.
This is your morning Show with Michael Del Trono. Hollywood
legend Gene Hackman and his wife found dead in New Mexico.
Hamas has released the remains of four final Israeli hostages.
And what a week a French president already visited, here
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comes the UK president. Yesterday was the first cabinet meeting.
It's been a lot to cover for John Decker and
he's been there for every step of the way. We
just did a whole segment on the cabinet meeting. It
was pretty extraordinary.
Speaker 10 (33:30):
Yeah, you know, this is not anything new. President Trump
in his first term would have these lengthy cabinet meetings.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I've been in there for them. I was not in there.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
Yesterday, but I've been there for ninety minutes while he
went around the room and had everyone to speak during
the course of the top of that meeting yesterday. After
the meeting, I spoke with two cabinet secretaries. I spoke
with the Agriculture secretary, who's got a lot on her
plate right now as it relates to egg prices, and
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spoke with the Interior Secretary as well. And so you know,
they like to start. The Interior secretary has only been
on the job for three weeks, you know, after he
was confirmed by the US Senate. And as you know
yesterday you spoke about this Elon Musk at that Cabinet
meeting yesterday as well.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, standing up, not sitting down, all right, So real quickly,
we only have about like thirty seconds we did the
French one. We know that perhaps Zelenski's coming. What's the
key item for the UK visit.
Speaker 10 (34:31):
Well, it's very similar to the meeting that the President
had on Monday with French President Emanuel Background. Two big
issues on the agenda. One is security. That security has
to do with the war in Ukraine, what the peace
steal looks like, what the aftermath of a peace steel
looks like for Ukraine in terms of security. And then trade,
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the President threatening those trade tariffs on April the second
from being implemented and that would very much.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Have a very big impact on the UK.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
There's those two big items on the agenda for that meeting.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
John lays at the White House this morning. John Decker
is always great coverage. We're all in this together. This
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This is ed from Gilbert Arizona. I'm stunned that you
didn't mention Gene Hackman's role as Little Bill in Unforgiven.
He kicked the snot out of Richard Harris. He then
went on to bully Clint East would now that was
frightening while he was torturing Morgan Freeman.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
It was a great movie. Ac a disorder, and all
I could think of is it's either windy in the
desert or I actually thought I heard spokes. I think
he was on a bicycle and called that. You think so,
I kind of hear a bike, But that's just me.
French connection and unforgiven are the two in his fifty
year career. He got an oscar for Gene Hackman is
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dead at the age of ninety five. Waking up this morning.
Roy O'Neil is joining us. The United States is much
less Christian than in the past. There's kind of two
sides of that coin. There's no question Christianity fell off
over a twenty year period sixteen percent, but it is
now leveled off. I don't know that. I wouldn't make
the headline rory Christianity is the falling of Christianity to America.
(01:50):
Has stopped falling, hasn't risen, but it stopped falling. Was
kind of what it might take away. But what was yours?
Speaker 5 (01:56):
Well right, the same and even the Pew Research Center
that conducted this study, and really it's a survey of
thirty six thousand people. Now people don't realize that's like
twenty times more the size of a polling sample. You're
saying for some presidential poll, thirty six thousand is massive.
And their headline was decline of Christianity in the US
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has slowed, may have leveled off. That's how they described it.
In this Religious Landscape study, they find that sixty two
percent of Americans still identify as Christian, about forty percent
of them Protestant, nineteen percent Catholic. But they're seeing more
people who identify as Muslim. For instance, since two thousand
and seven, that number has essentially tripled fro zero point
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four percent to one point two.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I was gonna spare you, because you know you're a
news person, but I'm gonna have a conversation as soon
as we're done on why that number stuck out at me,
and just to give people some food for thought with that.
But to go back to the numbers. Overall, in two
thousand and seven, seventy eight percent of US adults identified
as Christians of some sort or another, Catholic, Protestant, what
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have you, but christ centered Christian. That was nearly eight
and ten. That was in two thousand and seven. Then
it fell to seventy one percent in twenty fourteen, and
then by twenty that was a sixteen point drop by
twenty fourteen, and then now what we're seeing is a
leveling off sixty two, sixty four, sixty two, So it
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has kind of kind of leveled off. But when you
pile through all these numbers, just like everything we see,
even when we're doing political landscapes younger and that's who's
been targeted with these messages of political correctness or universalism
or moral relativism. The younger numbers are still low, the
older numbers are still high, and of course the older
numbers are dying, so that much is still in place.
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I took this though in kind of compared it to
what we're all feeling. There seems to be a cultural shift,
whether you call it a cultural reawakening. The last time
America had a big cultural awakening was in the seventies,
the Hippie movie, the movement that morphed into the Jesus
movement that morphed into a spiritual revival. And you wonder
what the cultural shift If the spiritual shift is coming well.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
And you're also seeing more people identify as being spiritual
and not necessarily identifying with a church in particular a
specific Protestant faith or Roman Catholicism or whatever. So you're
seeing a more broader spirituality recognition rather than a church.
And Q finds that since twenty twenty, we have seen
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some signs of religious stability across all age demographics. Yeah,
and on that note, eighty six percent believe people have
a soul or a spirit in addition to their physical body,
but not a creator, not a God, not a place
that spirit necessarily goes. But they all still believe in that.
That's the spirituality aspect. Eighty three percent believe in God
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or a universal spirit. So this is the university intelligency, OPRAH,
Hollywood influence on a culture. But the numbers are starting
to level off. Not so much of an uptick with
the youth though, but no, and we are seeing a
long term decline in Christianity, much more pronounced among political
liberals than among conservatives.
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Then we talked about Gene Hackman. Somebody was critical of
me saying, you know, why would you assume there was
some kind of a suicide. A dog can't kill himself, Well,
but you could, you know, whatever you chose, you could
do the dog, then do each other. But it's either
going to be we know, no foul play, but you
find Gene Hackman is much younger, wife and dog all dad.
(05:37):
I mean that just screams some kind of carbon monoxide
gas leak or suicide. Usually that's what that means.
Speaker 5 (05:44):
Yeah, I would just say the only phrase that was
missing was we're not searching for any suspects. When the
public information officers use that line, that typically indicates it
was a murder suicide, right, But that I didn't see
that line per se.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
So again it'll be.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Just with more hours we'll get a lot more clarity
about the situation.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
I appreciate your great report today, Rory O'Neil, thanks for
joining us. All right, I'm gonna do this part. That's
a little bit what I would say. I wouldn't put
Rory through it appropriately, all right. So if if you
have an open front door, all right, just to use
an analogy, and anybody can come through, and anybody seemingly
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is coming through, it's going to change the makeup of
the family. So if I didn't lock my doors at night,
just as a form of an analogy, my home is
one hundred percent Galatians two twenty Christian. But if I
don't have a door that's locked and people start coming in. Well,
some that break in might be Catholics. Some that break
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or if their family was Catholic, they're not obviously living
the Catholic police by breaking into a home and then
just staying. Some might be Muslims, some might be Hindus,
some might be Buddhists, some might be atheists, diagnostic. It's
going to change the percentages. So and I think it
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is mostly this, but don't make the assumption. Well, summer
around two thousand and seven, that's not being a godly country,
whether it became humanistic, moral relativistic, universalists. Universalists, by the way,
is all things to God, no matter how you live.
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All Gods are the same, with all evidence to the contrary.
That's probably the main cause of a sixteen percent fall.
And then we know the consistent and persistent in doctrination
from children's programming to K through twelve, to higher education,
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to cartoons, to sitcoms, to dramas, to motion pictures to music.
I mean, do you ever just stop and think? I
do all the time. As troubling as the seventies were
a little marijuana streaking, I'm try to think what our
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big rebellions were. How would you like to be a
kid today. You go to school, you have a trust
for teachers, and they sell you narratives as fact, revised
history as accurate. You're being pummeled from every side that
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anything you believe is hate towards another, and then it's
reinforced in every song you listen to, every show you watch,
every celebrity that gets a microphone placed in front of them.
I just watched my kids grow up, and I saw
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it coming. I'll never forget. This is if you could
have been a fly on the wall in my life
in Tulsa, Oklahoma, about and I don't want to exaggerate, literally,
about five months after I brought my twin girls home,
there was a knock on the door and they're doing
(09:24):
a welfare check on my daughters. And it didn't take
but a minute or two. And I was a talk
show host, so I kind of knew what it was
before it arrived. But I let him talk, and then
I realized they weren't checking on my daughters, they were
checking up on us. It ended with a kind of
(09:48):
an archie bunker, get the hell out of here. Well you,
So I knew it was coming. But when I look
back and now my daughters are twenty, my son is eighteen.
I think they grew up in the most difficult twenty years.
Only a living God still reigning in might, still close
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to the hearts and minds of those who follow him,
with a gentle spirit that guards and protects. Only that
is the only thing I can look at and say,
my kids survived it. Our kids are growing up in
a culture unrecognizable from the one we grew up in,
from textbook to curriculum, to lecture, to music, to video
(10:40):
games to social media. Don't you love how we I mean,
this is the one good thing I would say, although
I don't You're gonna hate this. I had one of
the most traumatic bullying examples in my childhood. I went
to a school in a very upper middle class neighborhood
where everybody, you know, we didn't have chauffeurs and limousines,
(11:05):
but everybody had whatever the cool shoes were, whatever the
cool jeans were, whatever the cool shirts were. But there
was one kid who lived in a poor neighbor that
happened to be districted in the same school, and he
wore the same and they weren't even like jeans that
were being kind of easy to not recognize. They were
striped jeans, red green blue, a baby blue T shirt
(11:29):
with holes in it. He wore the same T shirt,
the same pants, and the same worn out shoes to
school every day, and people picked on him. And when
I was in the seventh grade, he went upstairs, put
a noose around his neck and jumped out his window.
And I remember when kids would bully him, I would
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always kind of come and befriend him and encourage him.
I don't know why this haunts me, and it's haunted
me for almost forty five years. Well, I had never
dawned on me to bring him some shoes from home,
or bring him a couple of pair of pants. It's
just never dawned on me. So I had one of
the most traumatic bullying experiences. I often thought about if
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I ever, if I ever have any kind of notoriety
or influence, I will start some type of foundation to
provide for kids like this in his name. But we've
rooted out bullying. It good. There's no bullying at schools anymore. No,
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it's happening much more effectively and decisively on social media,
and nobody's checking it. I got two minutes, so look
some of this is by design as a result of
the attacks, the reshaping, and the de christianizing of America,
because you got to get rid of God and then
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you got to get rid of family if you're really
going to control this thing. And then this is the
amount of people that have poured in unchecked has changed
the makeup. But of all the things that Rory brought
up this, I want to give you Jewish population steady
one point seven percent in two thousand and seven one
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point seven percent and twenty twenty three twenty four, Buddhist
point seven point seven one point one. It's up a tick,
can do point four point seven point nine steady growth.
And we know the amount of India Indians that have
come into this country doing great things and great job
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and they're bringing that with them. The other in terms
of the effectiveness of making us atheist one four one
eight two two. Actually that would be non Christian religions.
Atheists are non religious four seven five nine seven one.
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So there's upticks there. But Muslim tripled tripled in fifteen years. Now.
I'm just gonna throw this out. It's just food for thought,
and I'm not paranoid, but I can tell you in
my studies of Islam. There are two types of Islamists,
and Islam, by the way, is not a religion. It's
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a system of life. It's a form of government. It's
a form of justice. It's a system for life to
which all rights are given or not given. There are
those that are political cultural and they play very patiently,
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and then there are those that are warriors and lived
by the sword. In jihadists, that's because there are three
examples of Muhammad, all conflicting, peaceful, intolerant, political and disruptive
warrior and conquering. The Jihadis will attack like nine to eleven.
They will attack like at a marathon. But the political
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patient islamis like the second example of Mohammed. They populate, infiltrate, disrupt,
wage war and takeover. Now, the number it would take
would be somewhere. I mean, look at the amount you
get now or you were getting. I think it might
be ending. But that number gets to about five percent.
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Look out, twenty percent leads to takeover. Keep an eye
on that number. Of all the numbers, that's the one
that stuck out of me, and that's the ones that
respond to a poll from pure research. Bottom line, the
fall of Christianity stop falling. It's leveled off. There is
a cultural awakening, we all see it. The last time
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there was a cultural awakening like this was when the
Hippie movement morphed into the Jesus movement. Usually, cultural movements
are followed by spiritual revivals as a revival on the horizon. Well,
the fall has certainly steadied. That is our journey of discovery.
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all right. Thirty six after the hour, they say deaths
happened in threes, Well they happened three all at once
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Robert John topped the charts in October of nineteen seventy nine,
was sad Eyes followed that up with the remake of
The Tokens Lion Sleeps Tonight. Two big hits in one year.
Born Robert John Pedrick died Monday at the age of
seventy nine. The other was and I didn't see any
(18:30):
of these shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, gossip Girl. She
was in several things. Actress Michelle Trachtenberg has died at
the age of thirty nine. I know she was a
heavy drinker and had a liver transplant. We believe it
was complications due to the transplant. And then the Biggie
ninety five years old Gene Hackman is dead. Police in
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New Mexico sa Hackman and his wife were found dead
in their Santa Fe home on Wednesday afternoon. The Santa
Fe Sheriff's Office says they do not believe foul play
was a factor. Local reports say the actor's dog was
also found dead in the restaurant in the residence. Now,
we have much speculation that this could have been a
gas leak, carbon monoxide something like that, or potentially the
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family you know, decided to all go together. We don't know,
and it's very premature to even speculate, but it is
an odd circumstance that they're all dead. My wife told
me the big thing on the internet is the big
gossip is that he was going to be revealed in
the Jeffrey Epstein Black Book League, and perhaps that's why
(19:38):
he and that's you know again, ninety five years old
is a long long life, but his wife is like
thirty years younger, and for her to die in The
Dog to Die, there's obviously something more going Two oscars
in his fifty year career, French Connection and Unforgiven obviously
spectacular performances, but with Gene Hackman, and it spanned so many,
(20:00):
from Bonnie and Clyde to the Poseidon Adventure to Hoosiers,
to Replacements to the Firm to Superman, I mean, there's
no telling what's going through your mind. So we've had
people using the talkback button today to honor Gene Hackman
sharing their favorite performance of his end movie. There were
so many. He was single handedly and I grew up
(20:21):
in a time where everybody said Robert de Niro, everybody
said al Pacino. I was always saying Gene Hackman is
my favorite actor and his body of work speaks for itself.
Gone at the age of ninety five. That's three big
deaths in a single day. Sounds of the Day, I'm
going to start with a disclaimer the show before we
went on the air, it was about I don't know,
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four o'clock in the morning, and I said to rad
I said, well, Sounds of the Day isn't going to work.
But it's not your fault, because the only way you
could really appreciate this is to have watched the entire
cabinet meeting and its entirety. And if I broke down
the first cabinet meeting to you, I would say, probably
what Elon Musk said, and I have said this days
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and even a couple of weeks ago. This may be
the greatest cabinet in the history of the presidency. This
is an amazing table full of people, and they are
laser focused, and they've already done more in the first
thirty days, some of them not even being in a
place a week, and they are determined to do much
(21:26):
much more over the next four years. There were a
lot of other differences that stuck out in my head.
You're going to hear this in the Sounds of the
Day opening in prayer. Over all the speculation, what's Elon
Musk doing at the table of a cabinet meeting? Well,
I could play you one of Biden's cabinet meetings with
his wife at the head of the table. What was
that all about, Alfie? And everybody said, well, I wonder
(21:48):
if he'll be sitting down. No, I said, he'd be
standing behind those sitting. He's not a cabinet member. He's
serving at the pleasure of the president. He'll be standing.
And that's common, that's not new, but it's all a
part of the left obstruction narrative. He did speak, and
he had some amazing things to say. But the bottom
line is unless you sat down and Biden went like
(22:12):
a year without even having a cabinet meeting. But if
you watched one of Biden's full cabinet meetings, sleepy stuttering,
reading off a piece of paper, his wife at the
head of the table, no energy, no real focus, no
real determination, and then watched what I watched an entire
(22:35):
cabinet meeting yesterday, doesn't work for Sound of the Day,
But that would be the only way to come away
with what really happened. So a couple of moments that
I was struck by the way it began, the fact
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that he called it grace, which I know some of
you are going to make fun of, but we often say,
this is a different Donald Trump, having nearly been assassinated twice,
once shot in the head. It's a different cabinet because
of the makeup of the cabinet and their priorities were
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evident right from the start.
Speaker 6 (23:19):
Listen, before we begin the cabinet, I'd like to have
Scott and a couple of people say a few things,
but most importantly, where are you. This is a gentleman
who's going places the head of hunt and he's going.
Speaker 2 (23:33):
To say you all know, and you're going to say grace.
And if they want of our meeting, right, thank you
very much.
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Let's praise Father.
Speaker 8 (23:42):
We thank you for this awesome, privileged father to be
in your presence. Y'all, thank you that you've allowed us
to see this day. The Bible says that our merciers
are new every morning, and Father God would give you
the glory and honor. Thank you God for President Trump,
Father for appointing us.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
Father God, thank you for anointing us to do this job.
Speaker 8 (24:04):
Father, we pray you will give the President the vice
president wisdom, Father God, as they lead. Father, I pray
for all of our colleagues that are here around the
table and in this room. Lord God, we pray that
we would lead with a righteous clarity, Father God, that
as we serve the people of this country and every
prospective agency, every job that we have, Father, we would
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humble ourselves before you, and we would lead in a
manner that you called us to lead and to serve.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Father.
Speaker 8 (24:30):
The Bible says the blessed is a nation whose God
is the Lord Will.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Father, we today honor you and in your.
Speaker 8 (24:37):
Rightful place, Father, thank you for giving us this opportunity
to restore faith in this country and be a blessing
to the people of America. The Lord God, Today in
our meeting, we pray that you would be glorified in
our conversation in Jesus name. Amen.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
I mean, I happen to be watching it live, and
I wasn't trying to be emotional, just my eyes were panning.
It's a pretty breathtaking room. The table itself catches my eye.
(25:14):
The chairs look so plush and comfortable. That leather looks
so soft. But I'm looking around at RFK Junior, the
North Dakota Governor, Marco Rubio, Pete Hegseth Pam Bam. I'm
just looking at this table with accomplished people, amazing stories,
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amazing track records, perhaps the best assembled cabinet I don't
know ever. And then that prayer began the priority of
prayer before business. Every single word of that prayer I
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could play about five times for you, the humility, whom
they serve, how they serve, great leaders all serve, and
leaders prioritize in God and country. I wasn't even trying,
(26:26):
and tears, hot tears started going down my cheeks, because
how long I've prayed for this, how long you've prayed
for this? If my people will confess their sins, repent,
(26:50):
humble themselves in prayer, I'll never forget. I wrote my
book twenty four years ago. Every time I autographed it
for somebody, I would put second chronicle seven fourteen, the
risk of being dramatic. That room, those people, starting with
that act and the words of that prayer. Hot tears
(27:14):
down my cheeks, and I hope they were flowing down
yours all right, where was Elon Musk not seated at
the table? He's not a cabinet member. He's serving at
the pleasure of the president, and he was standing, and
when called upon he answered the question.
Speaker 4 (27:29):
Yes, Well.
Speaker 7 (27:32):
Like the I think that you know answer was first
interpreted as a proponent's review, but actually it was a
punch chat review.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
You do you have a pulse? All right, kudos to Red.
My ten commandments don't allow me to brag about myself,
but I can brag about Red. You nailed it. That
email was not about harassment. That email was not about
you tell me what you did, five things you've done
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in the last week, or you're getting fired. It's exactly
what Red sensed. How many of these people even exist?
Are they on vacation, are they out of the country?
Are they even real? Checks are flowing to these people?
He mainly did the email just to see who's real.
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And I'll try to play it for you. But there's
other emails coming, there's other pulse checks coming.
Speaker 7 (28:38):
The President of Matter in Chief I do with the
president asks you, so, can we send out an email
to or one just saying what did you get about
last week? The President said yes, So did that, and
you know we forgot to a partial response. We're going
to send another email. Are goal is not to speak
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of precious or unfair. We want to give people every
opportunity to send an email. And the email could simply
be when I'm working on two centsinible cost byty to.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Describe that literally, just that would be sufficient. You know,
I think this is just common sense.
Speaker 7 (29:18):
And what is your target number for how many workers
employees you're looking to cut total? We wish to keep
everyone who is doing a job that is essential and
doing that job well.
Speaker 2 (29:31):
We wish to keep any everyone who's doing a job
that's essential and a job well done. Wouldn't that be
any company? Hot tears down my cheeks, and there was
about an hour and a half of that. Could not
possibly do justice in this segment to it. But if
(29:53):
you want to give yourself an American treat, you want
to give yourself a spiritual revival, especially you prayer warriors
that have been really praying for this nation to return
under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all and
servant hearts statesmen, not politician. Your answered prayers are in
that video. Watch it. Let me know how your hot
(30:13):
tears felt going down your cheek. I don't even know
if I want to do this one. This is a
senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a former
USAID COO visiting with Sean Hannity about what this organization
(30:37):
has been up to and where it's money's been flowing
and why no one's outraged.
Speaker 9 (30:41):
Yeah, it is, and it's done America extreme harm overseas.
When you now you talk about American values in places
like Asia and Africa and Latin America, people run for
the hills because they associate American values with this kind
of woke ideology, with transgender surgeries, with a climate alarmism,
with abortion is done tremendous harm, and the national security
(31:03):
implications from them are very severe, especially when we're trying
to compete against communists China.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
And the whole time he's talking tens of millions of
dollars scrolling. We have probably my favorite story of the day.
It's a Rasmusen poll. As President Trump's administration exposes wasteful
federal spending. You have what's left of the matrix and
the far left on the few channels that no one's
(31:28):
watching or responding in polls. They're outraged at this destruction
of democracy. How dare an unelected person like Elon Musk
be firing innocent people? And yahdah, yeah, yeah, you know
what the real America's reaction is. Seventy percent of likely
voters say they're angry about the amount of waste, fraud,
(31:49):
and abuse of their money. And that includes forty five
percent who are very angry. And just what in this poll,
just twenty five percent who aren't very angry about wasteful spending.
Amim had this right from the beginning. Oh, we're going
to be mad that Elon Musk is exposing this, not
(32:10):
at they've been wasting this and for how many decades?
What's left of the matrix? They're down to about twenty
twenty five percent playing the role of obstructionist. Most of
America likes what this presidency is doing and they can't
do it fast enough. Final one only takes a couple
(32:32):
of seconds. This one is good for sounds of the day.
In fact, it is the sound of a divorce.
Speaker 9 (32:37):
Rumors continue to escalate for the Obamas.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Hopefully they can settle it, like men, what you didn't
go there? Room?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Did?
Speaker 9 (32:55):
Lord?
Speaker 2 (32:56):
Isn't it just doesn't make choice. And that's your sound.
This is your morning Show with Michael Del Trono. Hollywood
legend Gene Hackman and his wife found dead in New Mexico.
Hamas has released the remains of four final Israeli hostages.
And what a week a French president already visited, here
(33:17):
comes the UK president. Yesterday was the first cabinet meeting.
It's been a lot to cover for John Decker and
he's been there for every step of the way. We
just did a whole segment on the cabinet meeting. It
was pretty extraordinary.
Speaker 10 (33:30):
Yeah, you know, this is not anything new. President Trump
in his first term would have these lengthy cabinet meetings.
Speaker 2 (33:37):
I've been in there for them. I was not in there.
Speaker 10 (33:39):
Yesterday, but I've been there for ninety minutes while he
went around the room and had everyone to speak during
the course of the top of that meeting yesterday. After
the meeting, I spoke with two cabinet secretaries. I spoke
with the Agriculture secretary, who's got a lot on her
plate right now as it relates to egg prices, and
(34:00):
spoke with the Interior Secretary as well. And so you know,
they like to start. The Interior secretary has only been
on the job for three weeks, you know, after he
was confirmed by the US Senate. And as you know
yesterday you spoke about this Elon Musk at that Cabinet
meeting yesterday as well.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Yeah, standing up, not sitting down, all right, So real quickly,
we only have about like thirty seconds we did the
French one. We know that perhaps Zelenski's coming. What's the
key item for the UK visit.
Speaker 10 (34:31):
Well, it's very similar to the meeting that the President
had on Monday with French President Emanuel Background. Two big
issues on the agenda. One is security. That security has
to do with the war in Ukraine, what the peace
steal looks like, what the aftermath of a peace steel
looks like for Ukraine in terms of security. And then trade,
(34:52):
the President threatening those trade tariffs on April the second
from being implemented and that would very much.
Speaker 2 (34:58):
Have a very big impact on the UK.
Speaker 10 (35:00):
There's those two big items on the agenda for that meeting.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
John lays at the White House this morning. John Decker
is always great coverage. We're all in this together. This
is your Morning Show with Michael Ntel Joano
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