July 13, 2024 • 54 mins
This week, Hy & Christopher are joined by Roger Villere, who is in Milwaukee from the Republican National Convention!
Villere serves as national committeeman for the Louisiana Republican Party, and he played an integral role in coming up with the new party platform. He'll give insight on the change - or lack of - in its pro-life plank, as well as the dilemma facing Republican strategists - will they actually run against Joe Biden this November?
Villere serves as national committeeman for the Louisiana Republican Party, and he played an integral role in coming up with the new party platform. He'll give insight on the change - or lack of - in its pro-life plank, as well as the dilemma facing Republican strategists - will they actually run against Joe Biden this November?
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The afternoon of Monday, July fifteenthmarks the beginning of the Republican National Convention.
But the RNC members have been upin Milwaukee for the last week working
on the platform, putting the woodsdown for Donald Trump's campaign. And we're
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going to talk to one of thosemembers, Roger Villery, calling to us
from Milwaukee to give us the insidescoop. What's happening at this week's convention,
the story behind the story, andsome of this controversy for the abortion
plank in the platform and its removal. Is it really been removed? The
story is a little bit more complexthan we think. All of this and
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more on this edition of The FounderShow with Republican National Committeemen Roger Villary and
God bless all out there. Youare now listening to the founders, the
voice of the founding fathers, Yourfounding Fathers, coming to you deep within
the bowels of those mystic and crypticalligator swamps of the Big Easy, that
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old Crescent City, New Orleans,Louisiana, and high up on top of
that old Liberty Cypress tree way outon the Eagles Branch. This is none
other than your spingeary Baba of theRepublic, Chaplain High mcenry, who with
Christopher Tidmore. You're roving reporter,resident radical moderate and associate editor of the
Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana weeekly dotnet. And Hi, we have a
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special guest joining us from the RepublicanNational Convention. Our own Roger Villary is
one of the movers and shakers inthe RNC. He's, of course,
we're Louisiana as a Republican National Committeemenand Roger and he is the model Republican
for Louisiana and we are proud ofhim. Thank you, Ryley, thank
you, thank you, sir.I appreciate well. Speaking of model Republicans.
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You know, I will say there'sbeen an interesting thing going on with
all the concentration on Biden. Willhe won't he? Will he drop out?
Will he run. Is that therewere a lot of sparks going on
in the platform committee meetings that youhad up there in Milwaukee over the pro
life platform in the party, whichcritics have said that has been weakened.
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And of course we know from thedebate President Trump has endorsed exceptions for rape
incessant danger to the life of themother, while he doesn't. He did
say he likes late term abortion bands. He said that ought to be up
to the states, and he endorsedMiller pristone the abortion pill remaining legal.
And people have said that the modifiedplatform is more recognizing of those positions,
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if not endorsing of them. AndI'm curious what's going on there is is
what we're hitting in the conservative press. Is there a lot of the same
sound and fury up there or isit being overplayed? Well, first of
all, they didn't define it thatminute detail like they have in the past.
We took a sixty page platform andbrought it down to sixteen pages.
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And we are a party of prolife. We're a pro life party,
but we don't we're not mine.They didn't go into my news and they
kept everything big picture. Our presidenthas some views some of us are are
much stronger in the pro life community. But he is pro life. The
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party is pro life, and we'regoing to promote pro life. And he
believes in states rights, and hethinks up to the states well, and
so that would be a topic lateryou'll hear from me about states. Right.
So if they had passed some typeof national legislation, it could have
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a fourteen week or something like that. A lot of states have stronger laws
to that. You know, it'sa conception, and so I think you
have to leave it up to thestates, and it's up to pro life
people like myself to change the heartsand minds of individuals in each state,
right, And that's our job.Well, let me let me ruger ll
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let me ask you. Because lasttime he ran, actually when he ran
twenty sixteen and the last time heran both times, Donald Trump endorsed a
twenty week abortion ban, and heand he had made positive statements in the
past about a fifteen week abortion ban, which I know a lot of people
are trying to put in the platform, and he's kind of reversed himself on
that, saying it ought to bein the states, which is by the
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way, the federalist position on that, but it is not the same position
he took about four or eight yearsago. Well, what I can tell
you is that he appointed judges ata Supreme Court that overturned Roe v.
Wade, So I'm very happy withit. Yeah, well, Roger,
let me if the first rule ofpolitics is never getting the way of your
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opponent destroying themselves, the Republican Conventionmust be in a pretty good position because
it's watching the Democrats create emoliation.We're not no news is good news if
it's coming and not coming out ofMilwaukee. What is the perspective on that.
We haven't actually started the convention yet. The convention starts on Monday,
but we're up at the Milwaukee atthe R and C meeting the R and
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C and we're we're working on committees, Platform Committee and Rulese Committee and all
the other committees that meet throughout theweek. And then we have in our
R and C meetings and going throughour regular committees and trainings and providing all
the informations at R and C.And we have a lot of new R
and C members coming on. We'llactually be putting on about forty one new
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RN C members out of one sixtyeight, which is a pretty big turnaround.
That's that's that's incredible. Is thatthe largest number of new R and
C members to ever join before convention, because usually it's the turnovers and that
big I've got I don't I can'tsay it ever, but it's the largest
number in a long long time.I think the biggest number back a few
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years was around thirty three. Sothis is forty one. So it's a
big turnover. It'll be a lotof new people, a lot of people.
You know, it to be alearning curve for them to see what's
going on. You have some peoplethat are longtime activist and you have some
very new people, and you havea number of young people coming in a
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whole new generation. Have a numberof them are in their late twenties,
early thirties, so you know,the R and C tends to be more
like demographists like myself who have beenaround thirty forty fifty years in politics and
have a lot of experience, butbrought on a lot of new I think
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exciting ideas with some of these newmembers. Some of them have actually taken
their place already because the individuals thathad those physicians resigned early, or you
know, a couple of them passedaway and things like that. But so
this weekend, I think we putin it was two I think two new
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members and about three new chairmen,so it's going to be quite a turnover.
We're joined by Republican National Committeeman RogerVillery. For those that know,
he was the longest serving chairman ofthe Republican Party of Louisiana and he's been
between National Committeemen and chairman on theRepublican National Committee. Now, if I'm
doing my math right, over thirtyyears, you've been involved pretty much of
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the article. I've been involved inthirty but I've actually served a little over
twenty years. I think it's abouttwenty two years. Because I'm a three
peete. I'm one of the fewpeople was ever come back on three times
wow, And I was on hiscommittee man, I went off for a
number of years, I came backon his chairman, I went off a
few years, and now I'm backon his committee. And didn't Trump try
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to. I was favoring you beingthe chairman or the co chairman of the
Republican Party. Now, well,you know, I was looking at running
co chairman of Republican Party. Butif you have we and our ruse,
if you have a male uh chairmanhas to be a female co chairman and
and that's and if it's a femalechairman and and so if they were looking
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at a female chairman, then therewas there will been an opportunity for me
to be a now Roger now RogieBillary. As by the time the sayers,
of course we've been talking. We'retalking to you from Milwaukee, and
you've been there for the Platform committeemeetings and the divus pre meetings the RNC
does before the convention. The conventioncomes together on the ff on the Committee
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on Arrangement, So I'm sorry forthat happening. Uh yeah, which is
the committee that organize it. Andthen I was on the site selection.
Uh there was seven of us thatactually picked the site for the convention.
So I was on that small committee. And let me ask you that what
was the logic behind behind Milwaukee.Was it because it's a swing state?
It was it's a perfect state forone thing? Another thing. They had
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a great presentation. Uh, theyhad really I would I would say probably
one of the top two presentations thatthat they made and the mayor, the
city council, all the elected officials. They welcomed us with open arms to
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the community, the business community,the civic community. Uh. They they
wanted it. They want to createexcitements in a city that wants to turn
itself around and grow. And othercities we went to another a number of
other cities that maybe well you know, uh in some ways more exciting and
things, but they didn't really needthe the you know, the they have
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things going on. They didn't theydidn't really need a big giant convention like
this to happen. And him Milwaukee, they wanted it, they needed it,
and you know, they came acrossand then it didn't hurt that Rank's
previous who had been previous chairman ofrn C and chief of staff for UH
Donald Trump. UH. He agreedto be the host committee chairman and help
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raise the funds and and organize thein in Wiscon. You know, people
forget from Wisconsin so state exactly.He's here, his law firm is anchored
here, even though he's still mostlyin Washingt d c's headquartered, but but
his his law firm UH is here, and so he spends a lot of
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time uh in Wiscondhnson and in theMilwaukee area, and they met all the
criteria everything that everything is for usto the stadium, the arena, the
convention center, the number of hotelrooms. It fit, it fit everything.
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And then with the local elected officials, even even though it's the Democratic
officials, you know, the waythey put it is, it's not about
red or blue, it's about green. You know, thirty thousand people are
going to bring in about three hundredmillion dollars where and so, And of
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course for those who's joining us,Roger Villary, a Republican National Committee of
Louisiana is joining Himikkenry and Christopher Tidmorehere in the Founder show in WSLA and
w rn L and Roger as we'vebeen going into the pre numes probably by
the time of our main airing onSunday and WRNL, much less our airings
on Friday, Monday and Wednesday onWSLA. We may know who the VP
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chatter is, but I'm sort ofcurious on the discussion levels. I know
each group, each potential has hisown constituency within the party. How much
do you guys actually say, Iwonder who Trump's gonna choose if it's going
to be JD. Van. Sothat's all everybody's talking about in the way,
and you know, what's the positiveand negatives to each one and what
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do they bring and how does itchange the dynamics? And uh, you
know, it's how does it workwith part part of the equation is who
is going to be the nominee forthe Democrats? We have no idea,
you know, do you need youknow, to be beneficial to have a
woman a ballance off? A womanmight be headed a ticket. We just
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don't know. So it really itmakes it so interested in h you know,
it's it's like, okay, draftnight at a football game. You
know, if we if we pickedthis quarterback, but we don't have a
wide receiver but that he can throwto, you know, is it works?
Do we need to get a goodline? And first, I mean
you raise a point like we weredebating this and Hyena's an off air and
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Donald Trump says he already knows whohis VP is going to be. As
we as we take and we're andand uh, as we run this and
undoubtedly before the final airing of theshow in the week, we will we
will all know. But the Thesubtext has been, I'll tell you,
one of the subtexts I'm hearing froma friend of mine at the convention has
been, what if Kamala Harris isthe nominee, her likely VP would be
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Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Ministerof Michigan, and it would be two
men versus two women. How doesthat work? It's all these different scoring
I'm I'm gonna explain something later inthe show for everybody of what's going to
the black community. Why I don'tthink Biden's gonna be kicked off the ticket.
But the fact of the matter is, it's I've never seen a situation
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where nobody really knows who the nominee. This is, this is, this
is, this is. This hasn'thappened sixty eight. This is unprecedented.
They're they're very powerful factions, andthey're pulling against one another. One wants
to get rid of by it andthe other one wants to keep him.
How will it turn up? Well, time will tell. Well in that
time will tell. I think that'sor or like I think Biden even said
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it. You know, the bigguy in the sky might make the decision.
He might come down and the GoodLord might make the decision for us,
because you know, I'm not sayinghim, yeah, I don't think
it's going to die before the convention, but about Biden may be saying God's
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going to kill his opponents fasciated,you know, because yeah, I mean,
obviously there's something going on that's notuh normal in his brain functions.
And you know, I'm not adoctor, so I can't diagnose him.
But you hear all these different doctorsexplain, you know, he's got this
right problem at all the symptoms ofParkinson's and whatnot, well exactly, so
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we don't really know, you know, so but we see, I mean,
we see the man as demented.It's so easy to see. I've
been saying this for four years now. He is a mental case where there's
dementia, Alzheimer's, parkinston or whateverelse, all kinds of mentally I will
I will say this, and I'mgoing to give high low credit. But
also the conservative press. This isone of the situations where a lot of
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people were, including myself, We'repointing out and saying it can't be that
bad, it can't be that Butof course it was exactly like everybody said.
The interesting The interesting thing about itis the George Clooney. I'm curious
if anybody up in Milwaukee was talkingabout this. When Clooney's article is editorial
ended up in the New York Timesasking dump Biden, you know it was.
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It reminded me of when Walter Kronkiteturned on Lyndon Johnson over the Vietnam
War, and Johnson said, personally, if I've lost Walter Konkit of lost
the nation, there isn't anybody inthe media who is Walter Kronkite's stature.
If there's somebody is close to it, it's probably George Clooney, you know,
who's got that kind of public approval. But I got to tell you
that came out and I want toshare the story with the two of you,
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Roger, because I want to heara lot more best. But this
is something you might want to taketo your colleagues as you're up there in
Milwaukee for the convention. Everybody's assumingBiden's gone, is this gonna he won't
be there? That I'm sitting inan editorial board meeting at the Louisiana Weekly
and we're on conference calls with otherblack newspapers around the country and what's going
to happen. And overwhelmingly, I'mone of the only people who are saying,
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okay, are we writing an editorialthat says if Biden leaves, it
should be Kamala Harris. The generalassumption amongst the black leadership was this,
if Biden's kicked out, they're goingto kick out Harris, so we have
to defend Biden at all costs.And it was a very interesting viewpoint because
I'm like, no, I mean, logically, it would be Kamala Harris
because she keeps the money. Youcan't transfer all that super back money to
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anybody else or whatever. But theattitude in the Black community, which is
the strongest constituency in the Democratic Party, is it has to be by and
because it's the only way we canguarantee Kamala Harris days on the ticket,
which I thought was an interesting viewpoint. And I don't know if anybody up
in Milwaukee and the GOP side hasbeen talking about that. Absolutely, you
know, so they have been inthe news every scenario, every scenario you
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can think of. Well, butI don't think it's what they consider at
the top of the list of scenarios, so we'll see. Yeah. Well,
Roger Villary is joining us from Milwaukee. He is the Republican National committe
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will, and supporters and former chairmanof the Republican Party, the longest standing
one I believe, and we're stillnationally as a serving a very important liason
function for the state of Louisiana.Roger, you mentioned you're very involved in
the platform Committee for the RNC forthe convention, and I want to find
out what's going on really with thehuman life plank in the platform. Some
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people say it's been weakened. Oneof the things that's been interesting, and
we mentioned the abortion issue, isthat there is more focus and states rights
in this Republican Convention than we've seenan actual for all the rhetoric about it
in the last six RNC meetings,six Republican conventions, or in this somehow
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they repeal the Dodds decision made usrefocus on what are the reserve powers under
the Tenth Amendment for the states?And I know it made it very much
in the Platform committee about trying toexceed power back to the states. I
was wondering if you could talk aboutthat, Roger Well, I could just
say, you know, we believestates for rates and I think it's a
basic right in our constitution and soit's not a lot of debate on that
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there. Let me let me letme, let me, let me give
you my bottom line about what.I'm sorry, Christopher, all right,
I didn't mean to unnerve you.Goodness well a little bit. Please please
because to talk after this so Ican help you with your trouble soul.
Well, my troubled soul is thisbelieves that you know, we are actually
a nation. We are a nationunder the Constitution US fur an oath not
to the nation, not to apolitician, but to the US Constitution,
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the defendant against enemies foreign and domestic. We have domestic enemies that could force
Louisiana and it happens. I hopenever appen. Roger, I'm sorry we're
on the sidebar, but let's getback to the convention real quick. And
this week the convention is going toactually have some interesting speakers that are coming
in. Here's my question, though, we're now seeing with the Democrats that
there's going to be a you know, the convention may play a role in
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choosing the nominee, but the RepublicanConvention, we pretty much know everything that's
going to happen. We know DonaldTrump is going to be the nominee.
That's that's obviously clear. He's goingto choose the vice presidential kitchen. Do
the convention still play a relevant rolein our political discussion these days because for
most people that are like well,it doesn't seem to affect my life one
way or another. Does explain tous how the conventions actually do play a
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role politically, if you would,well, the conventions bring together from all
the states and territories individuals that inboth the Republican and the Democratic parties,
that are active in their communities intheir respective parties, and they're able to
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discuss in one you know, onearea and I say one little one little
room. But but but in aconvention setting issues and ideas that are important
to them. They're able to meetup and coming candidates, candidates, whether
it's for a school board, mayor, governor, congressman, senators and and
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yes, president and vice president.And that's important to do it. It's
important to meet people that are comingup for a future. You need to
have a bench if you're going tobe a legitimate political party. You know,
you can't just think it today.You have to think of tomorrow because
the minute the election's over in November, then you know we're gonna be talking
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about who's going to be the nextpresident. So uh, you know it.
You have to have space and timefor people to invet other people,
people to see who is coming up, who is going to and somehow gathering
and so what you're saying is gatheringall the I don't want to use party
elites, that's the wrong word,but all the party activists that are active.
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Basically gives everyone a chance to knowone another. It's it's sort of
a message. It gives you knowone another, gives you to know what
you know, what direction is theparty moving in, and that's what it's
made for. And also because ofthe media we have at the Republican National
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Convention, fifteen thousand credentials have beengiven out to individual media persons. Okay,
so when you're talking about fifteen thousandmedia from all over the world,
people coming here, whether they arewriters, whether they are television people,
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whether they're radio. Well, youknow, because we have we used radio
row hundreds hundreds of people. Youcan go and just go down a line
and talking give interviews for a week. You know, it would take you
all week to go through every singleone of them, sit down with them
and do an interview and do ashow like this from them. So you
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have to be children and make sureyou legitimate it's not some farce or whatever,
and they go through it. Butwe've issued fifteen thousand credentials from all
over the world and So what itdoes is exposes your ideas and your political
philosophy. It exposes your candidates thatare coming up in the future to people
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from all over the world, notjust in you know, a small town,
not just from New Orleans, Louisianaor Alexandria or Covington or Slide Dell
or Saint Benod you know, youget to talk. We have people from
Saint Benawd, but oh that areinterviewed by German televisions, French television out
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as. Yeah I did. Iinterviewed out this year and they told me
over a billion people we're going tosee my interview a billion with a B
because that's how many Muslims around theworld look in and listen to that station.
So you're exposing people all over theworld to your ideas, your philosophies,
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and your candidates. So Roger Hillary, the Republican National Committee and for
Louisiana is joining us from Milwaukee,ladies and gentlemen, talking about the RNC
meeting before the Republican National Convention andthe convention itself, nominations for the not
only for the president but the vicepresident going, but the platform and essentially
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the party structure laying into the restof the summer, and a lot of
the discussion, as we talked aboutearlier, is laying in on just exactly
what the Democratic Party ticket will lookat. It is kind of interesting,
you know, we never had adebate before either of the party conventions,
and this debate between Trump and Bidenhas changed the political landscape so much just
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in the last couple of weeks.It's a new world. But I'm curious
that while it didn't just did They'reabout thirty percent of Republican primary voters voted
for Nicky Halley, around twenty fiveto thirty percent. There was division of
it. Did the did Biden's badperformance in the debate unify that? It
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have the inadvertent effect of unifying theRepublican Party more than anything that Trump or
anybody else had managed to do.No, I think the Republican Party has
been united. It didn't. Youknow. What it did it was focus
on how bad and how scary asituation we have in Washington de site.
It's frightened to think we have someonesitting as the most powerful individual in the
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war and they're not not there ofI mean, their are people saying that
he can't hold a legitimate conversation overa long period of time. Over a
short period of time, he's fine. Then they're not saying his mental capacity
has you know, gone, butit comes and goes, and he has
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laughses. He'll be in a millof a sentence and then he just goes
to sleep. He can't, hecan't force himself to operate. And a
normal person, you know, youno problem, you get along with that.
But he has to make quick decisions. He gets woken up at three
o'clock in the morn right and said, you know, we have this emergency
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X y Z is happening and somebodyhas shot a missile, or somebody blew
up a ship, or somebody invadedanother country. You have to make a
decision. Right then they said he'snot capable of working from you know,
eight pm to eight am. Well, and who the heck is? Yeah?
Right, by the way, that'show Hitler lost and the Nazi's lost
because when we on Norman d DDay, they couldn't wake Hitler up.
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They knew you don't wake him upwhen he's in a deep sleep. And
same thing with Biden. You justhave to let the bombs come and when
he too. Maybe he'll know whatto say, maybe he won't, won't.
I certainly want a president that that'sthat's aware at all points. Who's
so, who's running the White House? I have an idea, No,
No, he's running the White House? Roger, who do you think is
running the White House? Well?Uh, personal thought is a Barack Obahama.
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But yeah, I have no idea. That's what Bob Livingston is completely
convinced that Obama's really running with andI believe it to all the key players
he used when he was in theWhite House are back in place. It's
his white House. He's got athird time. Well, I mean,
the reason why he cannot run.The reason why I agree with that is
because mister Biden staff hates the Obamastaff. And it's been a lot of
the that there's been a lot offighting, yeah, but fighting in the
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White House. And frankly, JoeBiden doesn't personally like on a personal level
Barack Obama. All that. OhI know that Obama. I don't like
you. Yeah, so, andthat's why that's why the theory is off.
But when it comes down to it, Roger, coming out of the
convention, one of the things That'sthat's interesting, is this is you usually
how planning is done for the restof the campaign. A lot of the
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logistics of planning the national campaign arecoming in. It's not as important as
it used to be, mainly becauseof something you created. You were one
of the key players of creating thesuper packs in the Court and the Citizens
United case against the Supreme Court.You were one of the people who push
that. So with the super PACs, the party financing is not quite as
important as it used to be,but it's still logistically planned, and not
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that there's really more of a campaignmessage. But I'm curious. I'm sure
make America Great Again is probably goingto be the slogan. But the fact
of the matter is the convention.What doesn't end up on the TV screens
is usually what the logistics and planningfor the campaign will be. And what
if you heard on that line anything, Well, you know, there's a
huge tremendous push for grassroots effort morethan ever in the past. I'd say
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the grassroots group of individuals and individualorganizations, whether it's super PACs or or
are private nonprofit groups who are formedto create energy in that in various communities
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around the country to get out tovote. And you know, and a
lot of it has to be donein nonpartisan ways because they might be nonprofit,
but still it's you know, they'regearing towards a conservative perspective. So
and when you get towards a conservativeperspective, it tends to be you know,
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eighty percent Republican. So I thinkthat and I'm sure Democrats are doing
the same thing on liberal ideas anddoing it, you know, creating that
energy in communities to get out tovote, but a huge effort. It's
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not a little effort, it's huge. It's something that uh, people are
helping with, people are funding,people are volunteering. We've never had this
much enthusiasm, excitement and from volunteersindividuals all over the country. And I
think it's it's good for the process. Uh. You know, Uh,
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I'm a member of Sons of AmericanRevolution and uh it you know, when
this country was formed because we didn'tlike what was going on how England was
treating us. We don't like what'shappening to our country now. And so
I think you see the conservative movementsaying, hey, you know, we
need to get active politically. Weneeded we need a voice in this government,
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and uh, you know, it'salways best to have local activists.
I want when our founding fathers secededfrom Great Britain, remember that. I
want to I want to get oneissue that is still controversial in conservative circles
are towers. Remember it was aRepublican Party that pushed free trade for most
of the last half century, includingNAFTA GAT the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
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And one of Donald Trump's proposals isa ten percent across the board based
tariff along with a lutch higher tariffson many countries, sixty percent in China,
so on and so forth. Hasthat come up in any of the
discussions of the Platform Committee about howthat's structured and whether that's coming Really that's
something I'm not gonna talk. Okay, my apologies, keep certain things classified.
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Here knows how to do that?Very important. Roger, Hillary's joining
us from Milwaukee at the Republican NationalConvention and the Planning Committee's beforehand, and
Roger, we do we do wantto sort of collients what should people expect
coming out of this convention, becausewe've got it's interesting, this is could
be one of the largest This couldbe one of the largest gaps between the
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two conventions that we've ever had.Usually they're about a week or two apart.
Now this is gonna be the longest. They Democrats aren't till August go
ahead. And of course the Democrats, because their convention is so late and
they don't need all the requirements fora number of states, they're going to
have to do a zoom roll calland so technically, uh, they will
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have their nominee well before the convention. I don't know if y'all realize that.
Yeah, they had to do,particularly with the Ohio ballot, that
if they had waited to the convention, Joe Biden, whoever, the Democrats
would not be on the Ohio back. It couldn't be right. Yeah,
Yeah, they tried to sue tochange that, and you know, the
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judges greed with Ohio and Ohio canset the criteria and and so anyway,
it's it's it's highly unusual, butit you know, it's it's doable.
So that's what they'll do. Butyou know, we're gonna come out united,
We're gonna be working behind our nomineeand uh uh for president and vice
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president. Uh. We are goingto be energized. It's gonna be a
fabulous convention. I just got picturesof the finished product about three minutes before
we started our our talk on theshow, Dave, I was supposed to
be over there at at the FliesArena out there on the stage. I'm
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gonna be going on Saturday, nottoday. Uh do it because I had
I had a number of other commitmentsthat I had to do, and then
I told you I'd be on thisshow. So Roger, really and we
really appreciate you joining us from Milwaukee. It's been very generous. And but
but they sending me pictures, soI can you know, I just not
stand in the middle of it.So I got a sneak preview of it
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is fabulous. It's a great stageand set up, and we got all
uh all our delegates. We wewe on on the floor. The alternates
will be up or in in theseats. The seating. We have a
huge stage and the stage and onearea is twenty six feet in the air
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and uh, it is pretty incredible. They have been working on it for
weeks and weeks and weeks. Uhhundreds of workers building building out and it
is going to be tremendous. Uh. I think you know we're gonna have
uh it's made for TV program.Uh, it's uh. We we have
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a tremendous uh presence in the community. We're doing volunteer work, we have
we have adopted a number of schoolsand local charities that uh, we're we're
getting things afar and and and goingout in the community and making making donations
and we're almost really adding to thiscommunity. Right Well, once I have
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time, Roger, we do it. We do. We do want to
point out something. I have twoquestions here I'm looking at the time.
One of the things is can yougive us just shortly, within thirty seconds
or a minute, the general climateof all the delicates and you know,
all the people up there with youright now of their about their support for
Trump. Do they really gung hofor Trump? Are they supporting him?
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But nothing? But so they're reallylike super gung ho for Trump? Right
now? Absolutely? What you shouldhear the cheering and clapping. I mean,
it's just amazing, great, it'samazing. Yeah, it's amazing.
Praise God. Listen. Okay,now here's the second one. UH many
years ago, I worked for SchlitzBeer and old Milwaukee. And we know
Milwaukee is a home of breweries,right, so there are going to be
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a lot of beer. Uh,you know, slots are everywhere. That's
great, plenty of beer and cheesecurage. I love cheese curds. Oh,
I love them. I love them. Thank you Roger. Before we
leave, I need to turn yourattention to because my wife got mad at
me. It was all hot insummer. And I walked into because besides
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being Republican national commedy, and youactually have a rather large flower shop,
you and your family on the southshore of the North Shore. And I
walked in and you had a tenninety nine a dozen flower free flower carry
out special. You can't find thatanywhere in this heady. And I walked
in, I brought it in andI was not I was sleeping in my
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bedroom and not the doghouse because ofyou. So I owe you my marriage,
my friend, and I want Thatis awesome. And that's our summer
rose special, Chris. And it'ssomething that we try and do every year.
We try and work with our growersand we bring in these beautiful,
beautiful, top quality, top quality. That's right, and that's nothing like
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that grocery store quality. I'm talkingabout super top quality. You know,
I'm not going to beat up mygrocery stores because I shop it a lot
of them. But I can tellyou they do a great job our flowers
and their flowers. You know,we we buy from top quality grows.
They don't buy from good growers.But you know, we've been in business
for over fifty years. We wewe sell thousands of roses a week.
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We know where to buy them,and uh, we like to give great
value. Roger ten ninety nine.I don't think you can find a better
bite. You can't be anywhere inthe city. But Roger, we're running
out of time. And because nowit's time for me to go and tell
us all about the Rose of Sharon, one of the names of the Lord
Jesus Christ is we get ready togo into our chaplain bye by patriotic moment
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and gospel moment. So we gotto break for a break. But Roger,
thank you for joining us from Milwaukee. Keep us posted and we wish
you the best as you watch DonaldTrump get nominated for to be only the
second If he wins, only thesecond American to be twice president. That
means like thanks for having me Godbless well. Thank you Roger. We
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love having you, brother. Thankyou. Okay's bye, and we
will see if Donald Trump becomes theforty fifth and forty seventh president. Say
this is how it runs. You'renot. Actually, it's not a second
term. It's a second presidency.I know. So we'll be back,
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Legion of Mars dot com. Well, folks, we're back, and this
is chaplain hig McHenry, and it'snot time for us to go into our
chaplain. Bye by patriotic moment whereyou just take a brief moment to remind
you of the biblical foundations of ourcountry, our Judeo Christian and jurisprudence.
And there's so much debate now overwhat the law is really saying, and
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you know how to interpret all ofthis stuff, what our real legal system
means and how it should be adjudicatingissues. I thought it's time to talk
about maybe one of our famous lawschools, like Law School founded in seventeenteen
forty five, and this is fromthe Rules and REGs of their law school
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that our founding fathers were attending andlearning about how to practice law. And
here's there are many, but I'mjust going to give you. I don't
have time for all of them.Of Course, all scholars, I quote
all scholars shall live religious, godlyand blameless lives according to the rules of
God's Word. Of course, thatmeans a Bible, diligently reading the Holy
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scriptures, the Fountain of Light andtruth, and constantly attend upon all the
duties of religion, both in publicand secret. Folks, I think these
guys really knew that we needed tohave God in government. And of course
that's the whole point of this littlehistory lesson that I give you every week,
and that is to understand our biblicalfoundations, that they are solid and
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that they are real. And thankGod, now we've got the Ten Commandments
and all the public schools in Louisiana. Isn't that nice? Finally, maybe
the kids will will read thou shaltnot kill and it'll drop the murder rate.
Wouldn't that be wonderful? Anyway?But regardless of what the murder rate
is and how bad things are andwhatever's going on today, what about you
where are you right now as faras your sense of security, your peace
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of mind? And with that statement, it is now time for us going
to our chaplain gospel moment. We'lljust take again a brief moment to show
you how you can have that peaceof God which passeth all understanding. You
know, the Bible says God lovesyou with an everlasting love. Folks,
you know who it is who lovesyou with an everlasting love. One of
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his names is the Rose of Sharon. He's named after a flower. He's
also named after a lily, thelily of the Valley, which is a
very symbol of the French throne inLouisiana, the Fleur de lease that means
flower of the lily. Folks,He's the man, He's the one that
will bring you that peace. AndGod tells us how we can get it.
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He says we have to come tohim with the faith of a little
child. I'm talking about. It'ssimple and anybody and everybody can understand it
and believe you. See, childrenhave great faith. But it's even not
how great your faith is. Itis to what your faith is directed and
this is what it needs to bedirected to. This to believe that God
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is your salvation. How did hedo that? He did it by becoming
a man. That man's name isthe Lord Jesus Christ, also the Rose
of Sharon. He came to thisearth to take care of two big problems,
our sin problem and our death problem. He took care of our sin
problem when he died on the crossand his blood washed away all of our
sins. First problem solved. AndI say all of our sins. I'm
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talking about from the day you're bornthe day you die, you tinians to
your greatest sins. We're all washedaway with the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And then he took careof our death problem. And I'm talking
about the second death, and thatmeans that an eternal damnation in a burning
hell where you basically have forever existencelike a zombie. There's no life,
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but there is exist distance. Youhave a memory, you have a conscience,
you can feel pain, you cansuffer, but you have no real
life because life is in heaven,it's not in hell. So if you
get this second death, that meansyou're going to hell. Jesus died so
you wouldn't get the second death.Instead, he died he rose from the
dead to win for you his preciousfree gift of resurrection, everlasting life to
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whosoever believeth Folks, if you've neverbelieved this before, do it now.
Do it now. Don't wait tillit's too late. Believe right now that
Jesus really did die for all yoursins, was buried and rose from the
dead, and you become his child. You are born again. That means
you're you're dead and dying spirit becomesfully alive. Folks, It's now time
for us to go into our testimonytime, where again we just take a
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brief moment to tell you a storyof something current or something in our two
thousand years ago, three thousand yearsago. I could tell you the testimony
of Abraham, his life story,because the Scripture says by the blood of
the Lamb, that means a gospel, and the word of the testimony that
means your life story. They overcameSatan. So this is how you can
get a good, strong message onhow to defeat the devil. And it
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has to do with a man Iknow right here in New Orleans. His
name is David Botner. I heardhim speak at luncheon the other day,
and he was tremendous. Of courseI know his story because I'm on the
board of New Orleans Mission. Heis our director, and you hear his
voice every time you hear nor Len'smission at David was a very successful businessman.
He was at the top. Buthe had wine women in song wherever
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he went, and it was destroyinghis life. And he knew it,
and he knew nowhere to go.And he'd even become suicidal amidst having become
a very very wealthy, a multimillionaire businessman. And so one day he
got this thought. It came inhis mind as he was contemplating his misery,
and that was just go to church. He'd heard about church was hardly
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over there, thought well, okay, I'll give it a try. He
went to church and that day,that evening, the back of the church
because he didn't feel like he wasworthy enough to go anywhere else but sit
and hide in the back. Heheard the gospel and he was born again.
He became a child of God.And in his case, Now,
there are many different stories. Somehave cases like this. It takes a
little while, a long time,it doesn't matter however it comes, it
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comes. But in his case.He was set free immediately from all of
the bondage of sin, his addictions, his horle mongerings, his terrible lifestyle.
Uh, he was set free fromit, and all of a sudden,
all that money really wasn't that importantto him anymore. He was of
course, we're all glad to havemoney. He wasn't against it, but
it wasn't like his God anymore.He was set free from it all.
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It changed his life. He knewhe had had a lot of problems,
and he wanted to help others whohad had the same problems. The Bible
says when you're when you overcome aproblem, to comfort others with the same
comfort with which you have been comforted. So what David did was he started
hitting streets to new owns, goingto the addicts, going to the homeless,
you know, doing everything. Hebringing him food, ministering to him,
witnessing to him, showing how theycould get free from their their bondage
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of addiction. And in the processwe found him, which is a strange
experience. We don't have time forall that. That another great story,
but we found him. He cameto us, We went to him,
and the next thing you know he'sour director. He has taken that mission
from being a mission that we weregetting ready to close the doors. This
was twelve years ago and it hasbeen turned around now where we're the number
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one provider for the homeless in theentire Gulf South, one of the largest
homeless missions in the world. Wehave all new facilities. It's in one
of the most amazing stories. Insteadof fifty to one hundred people a day,
we're ministered to over five one hundredhomeless a day, and we're seeing
remarkable results. Not just feeding themand give them a temporary stay in their
miserable lives, but their lives arebeing transformed where they're getting free from these
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addictions, they're getting free from thehorrible lifele of a homeless person, and
they're being set on the road tovictory and success. Folks, it's an
amazing testimony, and now it's timefor us to close the show. But
remember, by the blood of theLamb and the word of their testimony,
they overcame the dragon. The bloodof the Lamb is the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you don't know him, youneed to get to know him right
now. Believe that he really diddie for your sins, was buried and
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rose from the dead, and you'reguaranteed heaven and a chance to have victory
over whatever struggles. You might beheaven right now, remember again your victory
over these struggles. When Jesus diedfor all of your sins. About says
he was turned into your sin.He was made sin. That's how intimately
he knows you all of your sinsfrom day you're born to the day you
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die. You tinius to your greatestsins. That's how much God loved you.
He would be turned into all ofyour wickedness to then give you all
of his righteousness. He that knewno sin, was made sin that you
might be made the righteousness of Godin him. That's the first step.
The next step into victory is hisresurrection life. You'll get that resurrection life
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that's powerful, that will overcome anything. And I don't care how bad your
giants are, how bad your problemsand your sins are. You will have
overcoming resurrection power to defy that TheHoly Spirit will fill you and will give
you victory. So, folks,if you've never done this before, don't
miss your chance. David, didn'tyou know twenty years ago. You go
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ahead and make that choice right now. I believe that Jesus really did die
for all your sons, was buriedin Roasma dead well, it's not time
for us to close with him onSaint Martin singing a creole goodbye and God
bless all out there. We callyou cel goodbye. They think we're just
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wasted time. All three SEVL,there's time for a Creo goodbye
Battles the politicians addressed the digit datasand magicians. Who's to see the money?
Then you don't, there's nothing tofill the holes while then fill in
their pockets. Battles the politicians bouncingdown the road, every batisition for no
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moth, corruption and dysfunction. It'sgone a day, Divide it avention.
The afternoon of Monday, July fifteenthmarks the beginning of the Republican National Convention.
But the RNC members have been upin Milwaukee for the last week working
on the platform, putting the woodsdown for Donald Trump's campaign. And we're
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going to talk to one of thosemembers, Roger Villery, calling to us
from Milwaukee to give us the insidescoop. What's happening at this week's convention,
the story behind the story, andsome of this controversy for the abortion
plank in the platform and its removal. Is it really been removed? The
story is a little bit more complexthan we think. All of this and
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more on this edition of The FounderShow with Republican National Committeemen Roger Villary and
God bless all out there. Youare now listening to the founders, the
voice of the founding fathers, Yourfounding Fathers, coming to you deep within
the bowels of those mystic and crypticalligator swamps of the Big Easy, that
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old Crescent City, New Orleans,Louisiana, and high up on top of
that old Liberty Cypress tree way outon the Eagles Branch. This is none
other than your spingeary Baba of theRepublic, Chaplain High mcenry, who with
Christopher Tidmore. You're roving reporter,resident radical moderate and associate editor of the
Louisiana Weekly newspaper at Louisiana weeekly dotnet. And Hi, we have a
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special guest joining us from the RepublicanNational Convention. Our own Roger Villary is
one of the movers and shakers inthe RNC. He's, of course,
we're Louisiana as a Republican National Committeemenand Roger and he is the model Republican
for Louisiana and we are proud ofhim. Thank you, Ryley, thank
you, thank you, sir.I appreciate well. Speaking of model Republicans.
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You know, I will say there'sbeen an interesting thing going on with
all the concentration on Biden. Willhe won't he? Will he drop out?
Will he run. Is that therewere a lot of sparks going on
in the platform committee meetings that youhad up there in Milwaukee over the pro
life platform in the party, whichcritics have said that has been weakened.
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And of course we know from thedebate President Trump has endorsed exceptions for rape
incessant danger to the life of themother, while he doesn't. He did
say he likes late term abortion bands. He said that ought to be up
to the states, and he endorsedMiller pristone the abortion pill remaining legal.
And people have said that the modifiedplatform is more recognizing of those positions,
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if not endorsing of them. AndI'm curious what's going on there is is
what we're hitting in the conservative press. Is there a lot of the same
sound and fury up there or isit being overplayed? Well, first of
all, they didn't define it thatminute detail like they have in the past.
We took a sixty page platform andbrought it down to sixteen pages.
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And we are a party of prolife. We're a pro life party,
but we don't we're not mine.They didn't go into my news and they
kept everything big picture. Our presidenthas some views some of us are are
much stronger in the pro life community. But he is pro life. The
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party is pro life, and we'regoing to promote pro life. And he
believes in states rights, and hethinks up to the states well, and
so that would be a topic lateryou'll hear from me about states. Right.
So if they had passed some typeof national legislation, it could have
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a fourteen week or something like that. A lot of states have stronger laws
to that. You know, it'sa conception, and so I think you
have to leave it up to thestates, and it's up to pro life
people like myself to change the heartsand minds of individuals in each state,
right, And that's our job.Well, let me let me ruger ll
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let me ask you. Because lasttime he ran, actually when he ran
twenty sixteen and the last time heran both times, Donald Trump endorsed a
twenty week abortion ban, and heand he had made positive statements in the
past about a fifteen week abortion ban, which I know a lot of people
are trying to put in the platform, and he's kind of reversed himself on
that, saying it ought to bein the states, which is by the
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way, the federalist position on that, but it is not the same position
he took about four or eight yearsago. Well, what I can tell
you is that he appointed judges ata Supreme Court that overturned Roe v.
Wade, So I'm very happy withit. Yeah, well, Roger,
let me if the first rule ofpolitics is never getting the way of your
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opponent destroying themselves, the Republican Conventionmust be in a pretty good position because
it's watching the Democrats create emoliation.We're not no news is good news if
it's coming and not coming out ofMilwaukee. What is the perspective on that.
We haven't actually started the convention yet. The convention starts on Monday,
but we're up at the Milwaukee atthe R and C meeting the R and
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C and we're we're working on committees, Platform Committee and Rulese Committee and all
the other committees that meet throughout theweek. And then we have in our
R and C meetings and going throughour regular committees and trainings and providing all
the informations at R and C.And we have a lot of new R
and C members coming on. We'llactually be putting on about forty one new
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RN C members out of one sixtyeight, which is a pretty big turnaround.
That's that's that's incredible. Is thatthe largest number of new R and
C members to ever join before convention, because usually it's the turnovers and that
big I've got I don't I can'tsay it ever, but it's the largest
number in a long long time.I think the biggest number back a few
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years was around thirty three. Sothis is forty one. So it's a
big turnover. It'll be a lotof new people, a lot of people.
You know, it to be alearning curve for them to see what's
going on. You have some peoplethat are longtime activist and you have some
very new people, and you havea number of young people coming in a
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whole new generation. Have a numberof them are in their late twenties,
early thirties, so you know,the R and C tends to be more
like demographists like myself who have beenaround thirty forty fifty years in politics and
have a lot of experience, butbrought on a lot of new I think
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exciting ideas with some of these newmembers. Some of them have actually taken
their place already because the individuals thathad those physicians resigned early, or you
know, a couple of them passedaway and things like that. But so
this weekend, I think we putin it was two I think two new
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members and about three new chairmen,so it's going to be quite a turnover.
We're joined by Republican National Committeeman RogerVillery. For those that know,
he was the longest serving chairman ofthe Republican Party of Louisiana and he's been
between National Committeemen and chairman on theRepublican National Committee. Now, if I'm
doing my math right, over thirtyyears, you've been involved pretty much of
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the article. I've been involved inthirty but I've actually served a little over
twenty years. I think it's abouttwenty two years. Because I'm a three
peete. I'm one of the fewpeople was ever come back on three times
wow, And I was on hiscommittee man, I went off for a
number of years, I came backon his chairman, I went off a
few years, and now I'm backon his committee. And didn't Trump try
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to. I was favoring you beingthe chairman or the co chairman of the
Republican Party. Now, well,you know, I was looking at running
co chairman of Republican Party. Butif you have we and our ruse,
if you have a male uh chairmanhas to be a female co chairman and
and that's and if it's a femalechairman and and so if they were looking
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at a female chairman, then therewas there will been an opportunity for me
to be a now Roger now RogieBillary. As by the time the sayers,
of course we've been talking. We'retalking to you from Milwaukee, and
you've been there for the Platform committeemeetings and the divus pre meetings the RNC
does before the convention. The conventioncomes together on the ff on the Committee
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on Arrangement, So I'm sorry forthat happening. Uh yeah, which is
the committee that organize it. Andthen I was on the site selection.
Uh there was seven of us thatactually picked the site for the convention.
So I was on that small committee. And let me ask you that what
was the logic behind behind Milwaukee.Was it because it's a swing state?
It was it's a perfect state forone thing? Another thing. They had
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a great presentation. Uh, theyhad really I would I would say probably
one of the top two presentations thatthat they made and the mayor, the
city council, all the elected officials. They welcomed us with open arms to
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the community, the business community,the civic community. Uh. They they
wanted it. They want to createexcitements in a city that wants to turn
itself around and grow. And othercities we went to another a number of
other cities that maybe well you know, uh in some ways more exciting and
things, but they didn't really needthe the you know, the they have
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things going on. They didn't theydidn't really need a big giant convention like
this to happen. And him Milwaukee, they wanted it, they needed it,
and you know, they came acrossand then it didn't hurt that Rank's
previous who had been previous chairman ofrn C and chief of staff for UH
Donald Trump. UH. He agreedto be the host committee chairman and help
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raise the funds and and organize thein in Wiscon. You know, people
forget from Wisconsin so state exactly.He's here, his law firm is anchored
here, even though he's still mostlyin Washingt d c's headquartered, but but
his his law firm UH is here, and so he spends a lot of
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time uh in Wiscondhnson and in theMilwaukee area, and they met all the
criteria everything that everything is for usto the stadium, the arena, the
convention center, the number of hotelrooms. It fit, it fit everything.
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And then with the local elected officials, even even though it's the Democratic
officials, you know, the waythey put it is, it's not about
red or blue, it's about green. You know, thirty thousand people are
going to bring in about three hundredmillion dollars where and so, And of
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course for those who's joining us,Roger Villary, a Republican National Committee of
Louisiana is joining Himikkenry and Christopher Tidmorehere in the Founder show in WSLA and
w rn L and Roger as we'vebeen going into the pre numes probably by
the time of our main airing onSunday and WRNL, much less our airings
on Friday, Monday and Wednesday onWSLA. We may know who the VP
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chatter is, but I'm sort ofcurious on the discussion levels. I know
each group, each potential has hisown constituency within the party. How much
do you guys actually say, Iwonder who Trump's gonna choose if it's going
to be JD. Van. Sothat's all everybody's talking about in the way,
and you know, what's the positiveand negatives to each one and what
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do they bring and how does itchange the dynamics? And uh, you
know, it's how does it workwith part part of the equation is who
is going to be the nominee forthe Democrats? We have no idea,
you know, do you need youknow, to be beneficial to have a
woman a ballance off? A womanmight be headed a ticket. We just
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don't know. So it really itmakes it so interested in h you know,
it's it's like, okay, draftnight at a football game. You
know, if we if we pickedthis quarterback, but we don't have a
wide receiver but that he can throwto, you know, is it works?
Do we need to get a goodline? And first, I mean
you raise a point like we weredebating this and Hyena's an off air and
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Donald Trump says he already knows whohis VP is going to be. As
we as we take and we're andand uh, as we run this and
undoubtedly before the final airing of theshow in the week, we will we
will all know. But the Thesubtext has been, I'll tell you,
one of the subtexts I'm hearing froma friend of mine at the convention has
been, what if Kamala Harris isthe nominee, her likely VP would be
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Gretchen Whitmer, the governor of Ministerof Michigan, and it would be two
men versus two women. How doesthat work? It's all these different scoring
I'm I'm gonna explain something later inthe show for everybody of what's going to
the black community. Why I don'tthink Biden's gonna be kicked off the ticket.
But the fact of the matter is, it's I've never seen a situation
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where nobody really knows who the nominee. This is, this is, this
is, this is. This hasn'thappened sixty eight. This is unprecedented.
They're they're very powerful factions, andthey're pulling against one another. One wants
to get rid of by it andthe other one wants to keep him.
How will it turn up? Well, time will tell. Well in that
time will tell. I think that'sor or like I think Biden even said
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it. You know, the bigguy in the sky might make the decision.
He might come down and the GoodLord might make the decision for us,
because you know, I'm not sayinghim, yeah, I don't think
it's going to die before the convention, but about Biden may be saying God's
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going to kill his opponents fasciated,you know, because yeah, I mean,
obviously there's something going on that's notuh normal in his brain functions.
And you know, I'm not adoctor, so I can't diagnose him.
But you hear all these different doctorsexplain, you know, he's got this
right problem at all the symptoms ofParkinson's and whatnot, well exactly, so
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we don't really know, you know, so but we see, I mean,
we see the man as demented.It's so easy to see. I've
been saying this for four years now. He is a mental case where there's
dementia, Alzheimer's, parkinston or whateverelse, all kinds of mentally I will
I will say this, and I'mgoing to give high low credit. But
also the conservative press. This isone of the situations where a lot of
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people were, including myself, We'repointing out and saying it can't be that
bad, it can't be that Butof course it was exactly like everybody said.
The interesting The interesting thing about itis the George Clooney. I'm curious
if anybody up in Milwaukee was talkingabout this. When Clooney's article is editorial
ended up in the New York Timesasking dump Biden, you know it was.
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It reminded me of when Walter Kronkiteturned on Lyndon Johnson over the Vietnam
War, and Johnson said, personally, if I've lost Walter Konkit of lost
the nation, there isn't anybody inthe media who is Walter Kronkite's stature.
If there's somebody is close to it, it's probably George Clooney, you know,
who's got that kind of public approval. But I got to tell you
that came out and I want toshare the story with the two of you,
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Roger, because I want to heara lot more best. But this
is something you might want to taketo your colleagues as you're up there in
Milwaukee for the convention. Everybody's assumingBiden's gone, is this gonna he won't
be there? That I'm sitting inan editorial board meeting at the Louisiana Weekly
and we're on conference calls with otherblack newspapers around the country and what's going
to happen. And overwhelmingly, I'mone of the only people who are saying,
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okay, are we writing an editorialthat says if Biden leaves, it
should be Kamala Harris. The generalassumption amongst the black leadership was this,
if Biden's kicked out, they're goingto kick out Harris, so we have
to defend Biden at all costs.And it was a very interesting viewpoint because
I'm like, no, I mean, logically, it would be Kamala Harris
because she keeps the money. Youcan't transfer all that super back money to
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anybody else or whatever. But theattitude in the Black community, which is
the strongest constituency in the Democratic Party, is it has to be by and
because it's the only way we canguarantee Kamala Harris days on the ticket,
which I thought was an interesting viewpoint. And I don't know if anybody up
in Milwaukee and the GOP side hasbeen talking about that. Absolutely, you
know, so they have been inthe news every scenario, every scenario you
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can think of. Well, butI don't think it's what they consider at
the top of the list of scenarios, so we'll see. Yeah. Well,
Roger Villary is joining us from Milwaukee. He is the Republican National committe
Many. He's talking about the RepublicanConvention coming up this week. We're going
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will, and supporters and former chairmanof the Republican Party, the longest standing
one I believe, and we're stillnationally as a serving a very important liason
function for the state of Louisiana.Roger, you mentioned you're very involved in
the platform Committee for the RNC forthe convention, and I want to find
out what's going on really with thehuman life plank in the platform. Some
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people say it's been weakened. Oneof the things that's been interesting, and
we mentioned the abortion issue, isthat there is more focus and states rights
in this Republican Convention than we've seenan actual for all the rhetoric about it
in the last six RNC meetings,six Republican conventions, or in this somehow
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they repeal the Dodds decision made usrefocus on what are the reserve powers under
the Tenth Amendment for the states?And I know it made it very much
in the Platform committee about trying toexceed power back to the states. I
was wondering if you could talk aboutthat, Roger Well, I could just
say, you know, we believestates for rates and I think it's a
basic right in our constitution and soit's not a lot of debate on that
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there. Let me let me letme, let me, let me give
you my bottom line about what.I'm sorry, Christopher, all right,
I didn't mean to unnerve you.Goodness well a little bit. Please please
because to talk after this so Ican help you with your trouble soul.
Well, my troubled soul is thisbelieves that you know, we are actually
a nation. We are a nationunder the Constitution US fur an oath not
to the nation, not to apolitician, but to the US Constitution,
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the defendant against enemies foreign and domestic. We have domestic enemies that could force
Louisiana and it happens. I hopenever appen. Roger, I'm sorry we're
on the sidebar, but let's getback to the convention real quick. And
this week the convention is going toactually have some interesting speakers that are coming
in. Here's my question, though, we're now seeing with the Democrats that
there's going to be a you know, the convention may play a role in
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choosing the nominee, but the RepublicanConvention, we pretty much know everything that's
going to happen. We know DonaldTrump is going to be the nominee.
That's that's obviously clear. He's goingto choose the vice presidential kitchen. Do
the convention still play a relevant rolein our political discussion these days because for
most people that are like well,it doesn't seem to affect my life one
way or another. Does explain tous how the conventions actually do play a
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role politically, if you would,well, the conventions bring together from all
the states and territories individuals that inboth the Republican and the Democratic parties,
that are active in their communities intheir respective parties, and they're able to
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discuss in one you know, onearea and I say one little one little
room. But but but in aconvention setting issues and ideas that are important
to them. They're able to meetup and coming candidates, candidates, whether
it's for a school board, mayor, governor, congressman, senators and and
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yes, president and vice president.And that's important to do it. It's
important to meet people that are comingup for a future. You need to
have a bench if you're going tobe a legitimate political party. You know,
you can't just think it today.You have to think of tomorrow because
the minute the election's over in November, then you know we're gonna be talking
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about who's going to be the nextpresident. So uh, you know it.
You have to have space and timefor people to invet other people,
people to see who is coming up, who is going to and somehow gathering
and so what you're saying is gatheringall the I don't want to use party
elites, that's the wrong word,but all the party activists that are active.
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Basically gives everyone a chance to knowone another. It's it's sort of
a message. It gives you knowone another, gives you to know what
you know, what direction is theparty moving in, and that's what it's
made for. And also because ofthe media we have at the Republican National
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Convention, fifteen thousand credentials have beengiven out to individual media persons. Okay,
so when you're talking about fifteen thousandmedia from all over the world,
people coming here, whether they arewriters, whether they are television people,
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whether they're radio. Well, youknow, because we have we used radio
row hundreds hundreds of people. Youcan go and just go down a line
and talking give interviews for a week. You know, it would take you
all week to go through every singleone of them, sit down with them
and do an interview and do ashow like this from them. So you
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have to be children and make sureyou legitimate it's not some farce or whatever,
and they go through it. Butwe've issued fifteen thousand credentials from all
over the world and So what itdoes is exposes your ideas and your political
philosophy. It exposes your candidates thatare coming up in the future to people
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from all over the world, notjust in you know, a small town,
not just from New Orleans, Louisianaor Alexandria or Covington or Slide Dell
or Saint Benod you know, youget to talk. We have people from
Saint Benawd, but oh that areinterviewed by German televisions, French television out
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as. Yeah I did. Iinterviewed out this year and they told me
over a billion people we're going tosee my interview a billion with a B
because that's how many Muslims around theworld look in and listen to that station.
So you're exposing people all over theworld to your ideas, your philosophies,
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and your candidates. So Roger Hillary, the Republican National Committee and for
Louisiana is joining us from Milwaukee,ladies and gentlemen, talking about the RNC
meeting before the Republican National Convention andthe convention itself, nominations for the not
only for the president but the vicepresident going, but the platform and essentially
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the party structure laying into the restof the summer, and a lot of
the discussion, as we talked aboutearlier, is laying in on just exactly
what the Democratic Party ticket will lookat. It is kind of interesting,
you know, we never had adebate before either of the party conventions,
and this debate between Trump and Bidenhas changed the political landscape so much just
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in the last couple of weeks.It's a new world. But I'm curious
that while it didn't just did They'reabout thirty percent of Republican primary voters voted
for Nicky Halley, around twenty fiveto thirty percent. There was division of
it. Did the did Biden's badperformance in the debate unify that? It
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have the inadvertent effect of unifying theRepublican Party more than anything that Trump or
anybody else had managed to do.No, I think the Republican Party has
been united. It didn't. Youknow. What it did it was focus
on how bad and how scary asituation we have in Washington de site.
It's frightened to think we have someonesitting as the most powerful individual in the
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war and they're not not there ofI mean, their are people saying that
he can't hold a legitimate conversation overa long period of time. Over a
short period of time, he's fine. Then they're not saying his mental capacity
has you know, gone, butit comes and goes, and he has
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laughses. He'll be in a millof a sentence and then he just goes
to sleep. He can't, hecan't force himself to operate. And a
normal person, you know, youno problem, you get along with that.
But he has to make quick decisions. He gets woken up at three
o'clock in the morn right and said, you know, we have this emergency
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X y Z is happening and somebodyhas shot a missile, or somebody blew
up a ship, or somebody invadedanother country. You have to make a
decision. Right then they said he'snot capable of working from you know,
eight pm to eight am. Well, and who the heck is? Yeah?
Right, by the way, that'show Hitler lost and the Nazi's lost
because when we on Norman d DDay, they couldn't wake Hitler up.
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They knew you don't wake him upwhen he's in a deep sleep. And
same thing with Biden. You justhave to let the bombs come and when
he too. Maybe he'll know whatto say, maybe he won't, won't.
I certainly want a president that that'sthat's aware at all points. Who's
so, who's running the White House? I have an idea, No,
No, he's running the White House? Roger, who do you think is
running the White House? Well?Uh, personal thought is a Barack Obahama.
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But yeah, I have no idea. That's what Bob Livingston is completely
convinced that Obama's really running with andI believe it to all the key players
he used when he was in theWhite House are back in place. It's
his white House. He's got athird time. Well, I mean,
the reason why he cannot run.The reason why I agree with that is
because mister Biden staff hates the Obamastaff. And it's been a lot of
the that there's been a lot offighting, yeah, but fighting in the
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White House. And frankly, JoeBiden doesn't personally like on a personal level
Barack Obama. All that. OhI know that Obama. I don't like
you. Yeah, so, andthat's why that's why the theory is off.
But when it comes down to it, Roger, coming out of the
convention, one of the things That'sthat's interesting, is this is you usually
how planning is done for the restof the campaign. A lot of the
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logistics of planning the national campaign arecoming in. It's not as important as
it used to be, mainly becauseof something you created. You were one
of the key players of creating thesuper packs in the Court and the Citizens
United case against the Supreme Court.You were one of the people who push
that. So with the super PACs, the party financing is not quite as
important as it used to be,but it's still logistically planned, and not
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that there's really more of a campaignmessage. But I'm curious. I'm sure
make America Great Again is probably goingto be the slogan. But the fact
of the matter is the convention.What doesn't end up on the TV screens
is usually what the logistics and planningfor the campaign will be. And what
if you heard on that line anything, Well, you know, there's a
huge tremendous push for grassroots effort morethan ever in the past. I'd say
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the grassroots group of individuals and individualorganizations, whether it's super PACs or or
are private nonprofit groups who are formedto create energy in that in various communities
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around the country to get out tovote. And you know, and a
lot of it has to be donein nonpartisan ways because they might be nonprofit,
but still it's you know, they'regearing towards a conservative perspective. So
and when you get towards a conservativeperspective, it tends to be you know,
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eighty percent Republican. So I thinkthat and I'm sure Democrats are doing
the same thing on liberal ideas anddoing it, you know, creating that
energy in communities to get out tovote, but a huge effort. It's
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not a little effort, it's huge. It's something that uh, people are
helping with, people are funding,people are volunteering. We've never had this
much enthusiasm, excitement and from volunteersindividuals all over the country. And I
think it's it's good for the process. Uh. You know, Uh,
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I'm a member of Sons of AmericanRevolution and uh it you know, when
this country was formed because we didn'tlike what was going on how England was
treating us. We don't like what'shappening to our country now. And so
I think you see the conservative movementsaying, hey, you know, we
need to get active politically. Weneeded we need a voice in this government,
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and uh, you know, it'salways best to have local activists.
I want when our founding fathers secededfrom Great Britain, remember that. I
want to I want to get oneissue that is still controversial in conservative circles
are towers. Remember it was aRepublican Party that pushed free trade for most
of the last half century, includingNAFTA GAT the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
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And one of Donald Trump's proposals isa ten percent across the board based
tariff along with a lutch higher tariffson many countries, sixty percent in China,
so on and so forth. Hasthat come up in any of the
discussions of the Platform Committee about howthat's structured and whether that's coming Really that's
something I'm not gonna talk. Okay, my apologies, keep certain things classified.
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Here knows how to do that?Very important. Roger, Hillary's joining
us from Milwaukee at the Republican NationalConvention and the Planning Committee's beforehand, and
Roger, we do we do wantto sort of collients what should people expect
coming out of this convention, becausewe've got it's interesting, this is could
be one of the largest This couldbe one of the largest gaps between the
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two conventions that we've ever had.Usually they're about a week or two apart.
Now this is gonna be the longest. They Democrats aren't till August go
ahead. And of course the Democrats, because their convention is so late and
they don't need all the requirements fora number of states, they're going to
have to do a zoom roll calland so technically, uh, they will
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have their nominee well before the convention. I don't know if y'all realize that.
Yeah, they had to do,particularly with the Ohio ballot, that
if they had waited to the convention, Joe Biden, whoever, the Democrats
would not be on the Ohio back. It couldn't be right. Yeah,
Yeah, they tried to sue tochange that, and you know, the
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judges greed with Ohio and Ohio canset the criteria and and so anyway,
it's it's it's highly unusual, butit you know, it's it's doable.
So that's what they'll do. Butyou know, we're gonna come out united,
We're gonna be working behind our nomineeand uh uh for president and vice
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president. Uh. We are goingto be energized. It's gonna be a
fabulous convention. I just got picturesof the finished product about three minutes before
we started our our talk on theshow, Dave, I was supposed to
be over there at at the FliesArena out there on the stage. I'm
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gonna be going on Saturday, nottoday. Uh do it because I had
I had a number of other commitmentsthat I had to do, and then
I told you I'd be on thisshow. So Roger, really and we
really appreciate you joining us from Milwaukee. It's been very generous. And but
but they sending me pictures, soI can you know, I just not
stand in the middle of it.So I got a sneak preview of it
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is fabulous. It's a great stageand set up, and we got all
uh all our delegates. We wewe on on the floor. The alternates
will be up or in in theseats. The seating. We have a
huge stage and the stage and onearea is twenty six feet in the air
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and uh, it is pretty incredible. They have been working on it for
weeks and weeks and weeks. Uhhundreds of workers building building out and it
is going to be tremendous. Uh. I think you know we're gonna have
uh it's made for TV program.Uh, it's uh. We we have
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a tremendous uh presence in the community. We're doing volunteer work, we have
we have adopted a number of schoolsand local charities that uh, we're we're
getting things afar and and and goingout in the community and making making donations
and we're almost really adding to thiscommunity. Right Well, once I have
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time, Roger, we do it. We do. We do want to
point out something. I have twoquestions here I'm looking at the time.
One of the things is can yougive us just shortly, within thirty seconds
or a minute, the general climateof all the delicates and you know,
all the people up there with youright now of their about their support for
Trump. Do they really gung hofor Trump? Are they supporting him?
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But nothing? But so they're reallylike super gung ho for Trump? Right
now? Absolutely? What you shouldhear the cheering and clapping. I mean,
it's just amazing, great, it'samazing. Yeah, it's amazing.
Praise God. Listen. Okay,now here's the second one. UH many
years ago, I worked for SchlitzBeer and old Milwaukee. And we know
Milwaukee is a home of breweries,right, so there are going to be
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a lot of beer. Uh,you know, slots are everywhere. That's
great, plenty of beer and cheesecurage. I love cheese curds. Oh,
I love them. I love them. Thank you Roger. Before we
leave, I need to turn yourattention to because my wife got mad at
me. It was all hot insummer. And I walked into because besides
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being Republican national commedy, and youactually have a rather large flower shop,
you and your family on the southshore of the North Shore. And I
walked in and you had a tenninety nine a dozen flower free flower carry
out special. You can't find thatanywhere in this heady. And I walked
in, I brought it in andI was not I was sleeping in my
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bedroom and not the doghouse because ofyou. So I owe you my marriage,
my friend, and I want Thatis awesome. And that's our summer
rose special, Chris. And it'ssomething that we try and do every year.
We try and work with our growersand we bring in these beautiful,
beautiful, top quality, top quality. That's right, and that's nothing like
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that grocery store quality. I'm talkingabout super top quality. You know,
I'm not going to beat up mygrocery stores because I shop it a lot
of them. But I can tellyou they do a great job our flowers
and their flowers. You know,we we buy from top quality grows.
They don't buy from good growers.But you know, we've been in business
for over fifty years. We wewe sell thousands of roses a week.
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We know where to buy them,and uh, we like to give great
value. Roger ten ninety nine.I don't think you can find a better
bite. You can't be anywhere inthe city. But Roger, we're running
out of time. And because nowit's time for me to go and tell
us all about the Rose of Sharon, one of the names of the Lord
Jesus Christ is we get ready togo into our chaplain bye by patriotic moment
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and gospel moment. So we gotto break for a break. But Roger,
thank you for joining us from Milwaukee. Keep us posted and we wish
you the best as you watch DonaldTrump get nominated for to be only the
second If he wins, only thesecond American to be twice president. That
means like thanks for having me Godbless well. Thank you Roger. We
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love having you, brother. Thankyou. Okay's bye, and we
will see if Donald Trump becomes theforty fifth and forty seventh president. Say
this is how it runs. You'renot. Actually, it's not a second
term. It's a second presidency.I know. So we'll be back,
folks right after these important messages,stay tuned. Are you looking for a
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make a positive impact on the homelessproblem facing the greater New Orleans Area.
Did you know in twenty twenty,homelessness in our community increased by over forty
percent. We are committed to meetthis need through the work being done at
the New Orleans Mission. We beginthe rescue process by going out into the
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community every day to bring food,pray, and share the love of Jesus
with the hopeless and hurting in ourcommunity. Through the process of recovery,
these individuals have the opportunity to taketime out, assess their life and begin
to make new decisions to live outtheir God given purpose. After the healing
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process has begun and lives are backon track, we walk each individual as
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Legion of Mars dot com. Well, folks, we're back, and this
is chaplain hig McHenry, and it'snot time for us to go into our
chaplain. Bye by patriotic moment whereyou just take a brief moment to remind
you of the biblical foundations of ourcountry, our Judeo Christian and jurisprudence.
And there's so much debate now overwhat the law is really saying, and
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you know how to interpret all ofthis stuff, what our real legal system
means and how it should be adjudicatingissues. I thought it's time to talk
about maybe one of our famous lawschools, like Law School founded in seventeenteen
forty five, and this is fromthe Rules and REGs of their law school
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that our founding fathers were attending andlearning about how to practice law. And
here's there are many, but I'mjust going to give you. I don't
have time for all of them.Of Course, all scholars, I quote
all scholars shall live religious, godlyand blameless lives according to the rules of
God's Word. Of course, thatmeans a Bible, diligently reading the Holy
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scriptures, the Fountain of Light andtruth, and constantly attend upon all the
duties of religion, both in publicand secret. Folks, I think these
guys really knew that we needed tohave God in government. And of course
that's the whole point of this littlehistory lesson that I give you every week,
and that is to understand our biblicalfoundations, that they are solid and
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that they are real. And thankGod, now we've got the Ten Commandments
and all the public schools in Louisiana. Isn't that nice? Finally, maybe
the kids will will read thou shaltnot kill and it'll drop the murder rate.
Wouldn't that be wonderful? Anyway?But regardless of what the murder rate
is and how bad things are andwhatever's going on today, what about you
where are you right now as faras your sense of security, your peace
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of mind? And with that statement, it is now time for us going
to our chaplain gospel moment. We'lljust take again a brief moment to show
you how you can have that peaceof God which passeth all understanding. You
know, the Bible says God lovesyou with an everlasting love. Folks,
you know who it is who lovesyou with an everlasting love. One of
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his names is the Rose of Sharon. He's named after a flower. He's
also named after a lily, thelily of the Valley, which is a
very symbol of the French throne inLouisiana, the Fleur de lease that means
flower of the lily. Folks,He's the man, He's the one that
will bring you that peace. AndGod tells us how we can get it.
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He says we have to come tohim with the faith of a little
child. I'm talking about. It'ssimple and anybody and everybody can understand it
and believe you. See, childrenhave great faith. But it's even not
how great your faith is. Itis to what your faith is directed and
this is what it needs to bedirected to. This to believe that God
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is your salvation. How did hedo that? He did it by becoming
a man. That man's name isthe Lord Jesus Christ, also the Rose
of Sharon. He came to thisearth to take care of two big problems,
our sin problem and our death problem. He took care of our sin
problem when he died on the crossand his blood washed away all of our
sins. First problem solved. AndI say all of our sins. I'm
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talking about from the day you're bornthe day you die, you tinians to
your greatest sins. We're all washedaway with the blood of the Lord Jesus
Christ. And then he took careof our death problem. And I'm talking
about the second death, and thatmeans that an eternal damnation in a burning
hell where you basically have forever existencelike a zombie. There's no life,
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but there is exist distance. Youhave a memory, you have a conscience,
you can feel pain, you cansuffer, but you have no real
life because life is in heaven,it's not in hell. So if you
get this second death, that meansyou're going to hell. Jesus died so
you wouldn't get the second death.Instead, he died he rose from the
dead to win for you his preciousfree gift of resurrection, everlasting life to
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whosoever believeth Folks, if you've neverbelieved this before, do it now.
Do it now. Don't wait tillit's too late. Believe right now that
Jesus really did die for all yoursins, was buried and rose from the
dead, and you become his child. You are born again. That means
you're you're dead and dying spirit becomesfully alive. Folks, It's now time
for us to go into our testimonytime, where again we just take a
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brief moment to tell you a storyof something current or something in our two
thousand years ago, three thousand yearsago. I could tell you the testimony
of Abraham, his life story,because the Scripture says by the blood of
the Lamb, that means a gospel, and the word of the testimony that
means your life story. They overcameSatan. So this is how you can
get a good, strong message onhow to defeat the devil. And it
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has to do with a man Iknow right here in New Orleans. His
name is David Botner. I heardhim speak at luncheon the other day,
and he was tremendous. Of courseI know his story because I'm on the
board of New Orleans Mission. Heis our director, and you hear his
voice every time you hear nor Len'smission at David was a very successful businessman.
He was at the top. Buthe had wine women in song wherever
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he went, and it was destroyinghis life. And he knew it,
and he knew nowhere to go.And he'd even become suicidal amidst having become
a very very wealthy, a multimillionaire businessman. And so one day he
got this thought. It came inhis mind as he was contemplating his misery,
and that was just go to church. He'd heard about church was hardly
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over there, thought well, okay, I'll give it a try. He
went to church and that day,that evening, the back of the church
because he didn't feel like he wasworthy enough to go anywhere else but sit
and hide in the back. Heheard the gospel and he was born again.
He became a child of God.And in his case, Now,
there are many different stories. Somehave cases like this. It takes a
little while, a long time,it doesn't matter however it comes, it
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comes. But in his case.He was set free immediately from all of
the bondage of sin, his addictions, his horle mongerings, his terrible lifestyle.
Uh, he was set free fromit, and all of a sudden,
all that money really wasn't that importantto him anymore. He was of
course, we're all glad to havemoney. He wasn't against it, but
it wasn't like his God anymore.He was set free from it all.
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It changed his life. He knewhe had had a lot of problems,
and he wanted to help others whohad had the same problems. The Bible
says when you're when you overcome aproblem, to comfort others with the same
comfort with which you have been comforted. So what David did was he started
hitting streets to new owns, goingto the addicts, going to the homeless,
you know, doing everything. Hebringing him food, ministering to him,
witnessing to him, showing how theycould get free from their their bondage
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of addiction. And in the processwe found him, which is a strange
experience. We don't have time forall that. That another great story,
but we found him. He cameto us, We went to him,
and the next thing you know he'sour director. He has taken that mission
from being a mission that we weregetting ready to close the doors. This
was twelve years ago and it hasbeen turned around now where we're the number
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one provider for the homeless in theentire Gulf South, one of the largest
homeless missions in the world. Wehave all new facilities. It's in one
of the most amazing stories. Insteadof fifty to one hundred people a day,
we're ministered to over five one hundredhomeless a day, and we're seeing
remarkable results. Not just feeding themand give them a temporary stay in their
miserable lives, but their lives arebeing transformed where they're getting free from these
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addictions, they're getting free from thehorrible lifele of a homeless person, and
they're being set on the road tovictory and success. Folks, it's an
amazing testimony, and now it's timefor us to close the show. But
remember, by the blood of theLamb and the word of their testimony,
they overcame the dragon. The bloodof the Lamb is the Lord Jesus Christ.
If you don't know him, youneed to get to know him right
now. Believe that he really diddie for your sins, was buried and
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rose from the dead, and you'reguaranteed heaven and a chance to have victory
over whatever struggles. You might beheaven right now, remember again your victory
over these struggles. When Jesus diedfor all of your sins. About says
he was turned into your sin.He was made sin. That's how intimately
he knows you all of your sinsfrom day you're born to the day you
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die. You tinius to your greatestsins. That's how much God loved you.
He would be turned into all ofyour wickedness to then give you all
of his righteousness. He that knewno sin, was made sin that you
might be made the righteousness of Godin him. That's the first step.
The next step into victory is hisresurrection life. You'll get that resurrection life
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that's powerful, that will overcome anything. And I don't care how bad your
giants are, how bad your problemsand your sins are. You will have
overcoming resurrection power to defy that TheHoly Spirit will fill you and will give
you victory. So, folks,if you've never done this before, don't
miss your chance. David, didn'tyou know twenty years ago. You go
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ahead and make that choice right now. I believe that Jesus really did die
for all your sons, was buriedin Roasma dead well, it's not time
for us to close with him onSaint Martin singing a creole goodbye and God
bless all out there. We callyou cel goodbye. They think we're just
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wasted time. All three SEVL,there's time for a Creo goodbye
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