The Eric Metaxas Show - Michelle Bachman (Encore)

Episode Date: January 13, 2021

Former Congresswoman Michele Bachmann shares her eye-witness account of the events of January 6th at the Capitol, and outlines the Left's design to now steal President Trump's "identity" and his legacy. (Encore Presentation)                                                                                                                                                         s the Left's design to now steal President Trump's "identity" and his legacy. (Enecor Presentation)

Hey, folks, I'm coming to you from a secret location. This is a fake background. It's made to look like I'm in just some kind of random bedroom someplace. I'm trying to figure it out. I'm a bunker deep underground. I can hear Cheney snoring. Dick Cheney lives down here. He's never seen the light of day.

That's why he's so wan and so pale. He's actually running the government. But we've known that since 2000, haven't we? All right, folks, we're living through a tough time right now. Very tough time. Yesterday, I was canceled on Twitter, shut down only for 12 hours, which I should think, oh, that's so merciful of them. Why did they shut me down?

I'll tell you in a minute. I just want to preface everything today. I want to say, in a few minutes, we have former congresswoman Michelle Bachman coming on. She was in the Capitol for a prayer event when all the kookiness went down the other day. She's got a lot to say very important. You'll see. You'll see. Also, I believe Kevin McCullough and John Smirak, we will have them as well today.

But I want to say from my point of view, we're living through the darkest times in my lifetime. But you'll notice that with a little coffee and a little faith in the God of history, we can have joy and peace in our hearts. And I want to say that to everybody. You can tell what the other side is really like in the way they deal with you. When they try to demonize you and say that if you dare joke inappropriately, if you did, I think, hey, ladies and gentlemen, we're in the United States of America. You think you're going to tell me how to joke and what I can say?

I don't think so. But of course, they're operating out of a Marxist sensibility. They're unaware of it or they will deny. it most of them, but that's exactly what they're doing. When you try to say to people, hey, shut up, don't even talk, because even talking about what you honestly believe is to incite violence, they're simply trying to shut you up. That is deeply anti-American. It goes against everything I believe in. It is sickening, and we do need to resist that. That's real resistance. That's standing up for what we believe in. You remember that Patrick Henry said, give me liberty.

or give me death. If he said that today, or if I said, give me liberty, give me death, the left and many in the middle, many evangelicals would just freak out and say, oh, you can't say give me liberty or give me death. You're inciting violence. Ladies and gentlemen, no, no. If you think that that is to incite violence, you need to get a grip. You're like chicken little freaking out. The sky is falling. get a grip, have some maturity, think about things a little bit more deeply before you freak out and tell people that they can't speak in America. Can I just observe something here? A lot of Christians, unfortunately, are on board with the narrative. I have a new phrase, Kool-Aid Christians.

Elbin, you're good. You're good. You really are. That's good. Well, after I thought of that phrase, I said, you know what? People have been saying for a long time, you know, the road to hell is paved by good. intentions. Well, we have been on that road for a while now, and we're almost about to reach our destination. You know, when you say Kool-Aid Christians, I think who is spelled C-O-U-P? Let me tell you, I want to tell my audience, first of all, my eyes are on God. Now, those of you who listen to me, you know, you don't have to agree with me on the faith side of things, but just so you know where I stand, I believe all that. crazy stuff that a billion Christians in the world claim to believe that the God of the Bible is real,

he can do things that we consider miraculous, like part the Red Sea, like create the universe out of like raised the dead. Now, it doesn't happen often. When it happens, it's a miracle, but God is able to do that. And so where we are as a nation right now, apart from a miracle, apart from God answering the prayers of millions that he deliver us from what looks like an un-American censorship-cancel culture future, apart from God answering those prayers, you know, we're headed into dark times, but we rejoice in the Lord always, always, in all circumstances, no matter what, no matter what. I want to tell folks why Twitter felt the need to cancel me yesterday. Are you ready for this? Okay, I cracked. This is the joke that I cracked. And by the way, if you're on Twitter and can retweet this like crazy, please do. Here was the joke. I said, okay, what's the craziest conspiracy you've heard lately? I'll start. The American voters elected Joe Biden to the presidency. Of course, it's embarrassing to admit, but I know people totally can't.

convinced it happened despite the obvious lunacy of it and all the evidence to the contrary. That was my joke on Twitter. Okay, what's the craziest conspiracy you've heard lately? I'll start. The American voters elected Joe Biden to the president. That was the joke. That joke was quickly labeled this claim of election fraud is disputed. I guess they didn't understand that sometimes jokes and, you know, truth kind of mixed together

in a way that, you know, that's a. called free speech. And they said, this tweet can't be replied to, retweeted or liked due to a risk of violence. Did you get that? Did you get that? Let me tell you folks, that is as despicable as it gets. That is vile. That is from the pit of hell. When somebody says that a joke that we don't like cannot be liked, retweeted, cannot be due to the risk of violence. Let me tell you a little bit about violence. You who are banning those of us who believe that we still have the right in America to speak the truth, you are fomenting violence. That is a fact. Antifa was marching in the streets of New York City yesterday, marching, looking violent, looking menacing, looking threatening.

Do the New York Times or Jack Dorsey with the earring? Did he have anything to say about that? Not a word. So that tells you that the the folks deciding what's right and wrong are totally confused. And it is our duty to tell them they are mistaken. And I do so now. I'm still on Twitter. And I have to feel that, you know, if you can follow me on Twitter, if you follow me on Facebook, if Parlor gets back up, if Gab is up, on all these places, I'm begging you, folks, share what I put up, retweet it, do anything you can, because we have to be really clear right now. People are trying to demonize those of us who have a different opinion.

That's despicable. I'll be talking to Michelle Bachman about this, but I just want to say this stuff really is, it's really evil. You can disagree with me and I can disagree with you. We need to treat each other with respect. We need to try to hear each other. If you're not on board with that, I don't know what to say,

except I think you are, in fact, inciting violence. You are trying to demonize a group of people that never goes anyplace good. When you try to demonize people and scapegoat people and say, that group is scary, that group is dangerous, those Jews are behind all of the problems in Germany today. Our economic meltdown, the fact that we lost World War I, it's the Jews. It's the Bolsheviks and the Jews. Let's round them up. Let's shut them down. If you don't agree with me that they're the problem, we're going to round you up.

That folks is evil. That's if you want to read my Bonhofer book, the whole story is there. I didn't write it for that, but the whole story is in that book. We need to stand bravely, courageously, love our enemies, pray for our enemies, but don't buy their lies. Do not buy their lies. Otherwise, you become part of the problem. Alvin, before we go to the break and.

hear from Michelle Bachman and company. Is there anything I'm forgetting that we should say? We should say please go to my store.com. We're supposed to welcome a brand new station today. And I sent you the link of the station. It's brand new. Let's see if I could bring it up and take a look. But in a second hour, we'll get to that.

We've got John Smirak coming up in the second hour. We've got John Smirak. We have Kevin Marak. We have Kevin McCullough. And right now, for the rest of the first hour, our friend Michelle Buckman, she's a hero. Stick around. Those and flows of angel hair,

ice cream castles in the air, and feathered canyons everywhere. I've looked at clouds that way. Now they only blocks. Make like a Mr. Milk Toast. Hey there, folks. Welcome back to Eric from Taxis. show. I'm coming, as you can see, from an undisclosed location. All I can tell you is Dick Cheney

is in the next bedroom and I can hear him snore. Let me say that it is a privilege right now to speak with former Congresswoman Michelle Bachman. But right now, she is the dean of the school of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University. Michelle Bachman, welcome this program. Eric, thank you so much. It's always fun to be with you, my brother. And it's fun to be with you. That's my arbiter. If it's fun, I'm in. Even when times are tough as they are now, we have to have some fun, some perspective on where we are. You and I've been talking recently, and I thought it would be valuable for my audience to hear a little bit from you about what you're seeing. You were in the capital when the madness struck. a few days ago, which is now being called, you know, some kind of a hostile takeover of the government. I mean, it is absolute madness. The mainstream media and everyone have picked up this narrative. You were there, Michelle, and I want to hear a little bit about that, but I just want to hear generally, what are your thoughts on where we are now as a nation?

Well, thank you for asking me on and for asking that question. The first thing I want to do is make a distinction. Yes, I was at the Capitol. I was not. there a part of the agitators who were bringing the violence in the building. I was there as part of a continuous prayer force. I actually have been in D.C. about six months because I felt the Lord calling me there to pray specifically for the nation because I felt there was such a high level of spiritual need right now to be in prayer for our country. So it's really been the last six months. But the day before the events of January 6th, I was there January 5th praying with other believers who came to D.C. We were praying all afternoon, all evening.

It was a wonderful, happy spirit, to be honest with you. Everybody felt great that morning. I got up. I went to Pete's diner, which some of your friends might know about it's right by Capitol Hill. A lot of Trump supporters in there, happiest people you'd ever want to meet. It was actually much like a family reunion. They were leaving big tips. for the people at the restaurants, everybody was just happy.

I chose not to go down to where the president was giving his speech because the mayor of D.C. had shut down all the streets. So navigating was very, very difficult. So some people were down for that, and I was actually up on the east side of the Capitol between the House of Representatives and the Supreme Court building. We were there from 7 a.m. on, there were worship. There was a worship band,

were praying. And so we were praying for a long time. And then I don't know what time it was. It was afternoon. I went into the Capitol building because as a former member of Congress, I have lifetime privileges to go into the Capitol and be on the House floor. I wanted to go into the Capitol to pray because remember what was going to happen that day. It was all 535 members of Congress plus the Vice President in that building for a historic momentous occasion. That was to certify the results of the presidential election. And since November 3rd, and actually prior to that, there were very strong concerns that the votes were not correctly cast, nor were they correctly counted, and therefore Congress would be certifying a result that was not in line with how the

people had voted. And this is not a small thing. Election integrity is everything. You don't have representative government if the people, if the people's choice doesn't prevail. That's what this was about. So I went inside. I saw the house floor chamber. I saw the gallery above. I asked if I could go in. I went to Kevin McCarthy's office.

He's the House minority leader and a former colleague of mind. And I met with a number of members of Congress. We were talking just about the events that were about to transpire. Some of them were sad saying that we don't have the numbers to overcome. Nancy Pelosi will prevail. But nonetheless, we were talking. I was not allowed to go on the house floor because of COVID, highly restricted. Very few people were in the building.

No outsiders of any kind were there. So then I decided that my time would be best used praying in what's called George Washington Chapel. It's nestled between Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office and the rotunda, the giant rotunda, I know that you've been in and many of your viewers have been in. So I went over there, the chaplain, the deputy chaplain came over and, let me in. But before I went in, I went over down by Speaker Pelosi's office and I saw her staff people and they were scurrying around like chickens with their heads cut off. And I, and I said, I'm going into the chapel and they didn't even pay attention to me. They said,

we've got to get out of here. We're on lockdown. And I actually thought, you know, they said, there's Trump supporters in the building. And I thought, I thought they were overwrought. It's like, well, so what if there's Trump supporters? I mean, you know, these are the nicest people in the world. So I went in to pray in the chapel and I was in there and I had a meeting scheduled at three o'clock with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over at the State Department building. He and I were former colleagues in Congress. And so I was going to go over and see him. And I thought, well, you know, this boat is going to be all day, all night. I'll go over. I'll meet with Secretary Pompeo. I'll come back and I'll pray. And so I left the prayer chapel right off the rotunda. And actually it's a good

thing that I left when I did because it was literally just minutes later that the agitators broke into the building and came in. And I'm glad that I wasn't confused with them because I was wearing normal clothes, just normal mom. But of course, we're being confused with them now because everyone who's- By design, Eric, by-design. Everyone who's pro-Trump is being accused of being a violent agitator. And I just want to be on the record as saying that is nonsense. It's worse than nonsense. It's an evil lie. And we need to keep saying that over and over because this is a truly despicable lie. And we have to say it over and over and remind ourselves and everyone who's listening what nonsense this is, that a few hundred people, we don't know who they are.

Obviously, some of them were pro-Trump. Some of them now we know we're not pro-Trump. They it infiltrated, but it did, it's a whole madness, but it was a few hundred people and literally a million plus people outside there for this joyous thing, and they are being lumped in with the agitators. And then everyone in America, about 80 million people are, you know, much more than that, if you consider the people, the kids and stuff, who would be pro-Trump, who didn't get to vote. All those people are being demonized as, you know, pro-violence. So I'm going to have to say that every 12 minutes for the next few months. Go ahead.

You have to, Eric, because that's the whole nub of what happened. Because this immediately, my first response, once I heard about what was going on, is that this was a planned event. It had to be a planned event because I had been outside with these people for two days. And they were the happiest, most joyful people. You had the prayer people who were there, a lot of prayer people. And then you also had what I would call the Patriot people, people who were there giving speeches, you know, carrying flags and that sort of thing. But again, not one angry speech.

I didn't hear an angry speech, no mob mentality. There was nothing like that whatsoever. And there was actually a fairly scant presence of Capitol police outside the building, at least on the east side. There just weren't that many people. There weren't that many Capitol police. And it was surprising. I've been there when it's been joint sessions of Congress, when the vice president has been there. You can't get anywhere near that building.

It's crazy, right? What could be more important? You have the entire United States government gathered together in one room. You would think that there'd be more security there than for anything in the world. And somehow bizarrely. Exactly, especially when there's a million people outside on the streets. That's what none of it made sense. And after the event happened, every single piece of evidence that came showed me this was clearly a planned event, but for this purpose.

And this is really the nub that I want to transmit to your loyal audience today. It's this. This was a planned event designed to do exactly what you're seeing day after day. It's identity theft. Identity theft. This was the left's victory. The left planned this. and their victory is that they are stealing President Trump's identity.

He had an incredible identity, an incredible brand as someone who's delivered never-before-seeing metrics of success in the United States for all levels of people, especially people at the bottom rung of the ladder who were the most vulnerable. He has an incredible legacy, and they are trying to trash his legacy on the way out to ensure that he could never be re-elected again. They're trying to steal this election and cover up the fact that it was stolen. I will tell you from my personal vantage point, I'm not speaking on behalf of the university or the Robertson School of Government.

I'm speaking myself as Michelle Bachman. This election was 100% stolen, in my opinion. 100% Donald Trump is the legitimate second-term president of the United States. And I call you, Michelle, just because we're friends, Congresswoman Bachman, you realize, when you say that and when I say that, we are being told, if you say that, you are a violent agitator. You cannot say that.

How dare you say that? You're leading to agitating and violence by even mentioning that. That's where we are in America. By the way, that's anti-American. It's not only an American. We'll be right back with Michelle Bachman. I'm talking to former Congresswoman.

Michelle Bachman. She is now, I have to read it, the dean of the Robertson School of Government at Regent University. Michelle, you just said that from your perspective, and from mine too, let's be really, really, I can't think of the word, conservative in the traditional sense of that word in saying that it seems to us that there were outrageous, unprecedented irregularities in this election. And we have looked into it. And the more you look into it, the more you say, oh, yes, oh, yes, something was wrong. And normal people would then say, well, if I have this much evidence that something is fishy,

then I need to deal with that. We need to do an investigation. You cannot proceed with an American election when you have this many millions of people thinking this way. The narrative of the left has been to say, don't you dare even mention that? It's settled. there is no evidence, which they keep saying over and over and over, the New York Times said it today in an article demonizing you and me and others. And they say there's no evidence.

What they mean is the evidence was never looked at in court. It was dismissed before they looked at it. The courts were unwilling to allow the evidence so they could weigh the evidence. And so they used that to say there was no evidence and that if you even bring it up for you to say what you just said, they say, we're going to ban you from Facebook. I was banned from Twitter yesterday for a joke along these lines. We're living in really sick times. Let me have done that happy. We're living in a time of denial of your First Amendment free speech rights, my First Amendment free speech rights. The only people who have first amendment free speech rights are those who are putting forth this new thought that the

president is an illegitimate president now and has lost. his second term. But I want to go back to this point, Eric, again, and republish this statement over and over because your audience needs to understand. The purpose right now, again, is to steal the identity of President Trump, who he is, steal the identity of his achievements, and steal the identity of who we are, because they tried to, this is the biggest smear campaign I've ever seen in my life. And that's what it is. I've seen these before and Washington, D.C. I had a national smear campaign made against me one time. So I know how these look. And the left is really good at this. Why? Because they control all of the mainstream media.

So they can control the narrative of what's being said. But what we can't lose in all of this. And it's really hard to hold on our hats right now. We need to try and hold on to that, which is true. That's what you're trying to do. And I hope that your show doesn't get shut down. I hope that your voice is able to continue. We have never, ever seen this kind of a purge. This is the kind of a speech purge that UNC would see in 1917 Moscow with the Bolsheviks or with Mao in the Cultural Revolution in China or in Argentina or any of these places where there's been a takeover.

From my opinion, Eric, you and I talked, I think that the evening of January 6th, the day that this event happened. And what I said at that point, it was stunning. I was in the middle of a coup. I watched a coup unfold. And what is a coup? A coup is an unlawful takeover of a legitimate government. That's what I believe has happened.

An unlawful coup has happened of a legitimate government. And we make this claim based upon the evidence that we have seen. Again, between the mainstream media and between the courts who didn't go on, actual evidence that of the of the stealing of the election but on process to standing issues that's why they rejected hearing these cases this is overwhelming and i would urge people to go to the gateway pundit.com if they have an archive there's a tremendous amount of information there that shows that this election was stolen in county after county city after city take a look at Forgive me, forgive me for interrupting, but I just want to say again, what they're doing now, okay, what the left is doing. And many in the center, many fearful, sometimes genuinely cowardly Republicans and other leaders are saying, even to say what you just said and what I've been saying is tantamount to whipping up violent revolution. In other words, if you exercise your free speech in America,

you are now being accused of whipping up violence. And I just want to say, ladies and gentlemen, understand that is fundamentally an American. It's unconstitutional. And it is vile. It is a vile, vile tactic to shut you up. We can never shut up. It's just an amazing thing that they're trying and largely succeeding. By God's grace, they won't succeed with us and anyone listening. Well, and probably, Eric, at minimum half the politicians in Congress right now want to take away and deny First Amendment free speech rights. In other words, you have elected members of Congress who want to deny and shut down political speech. That's exactly what the First Amendment was about. It was to protect political speech and religious speech, especially those that we disagree with.

And now what we're looking at is a enforcement of uniformity of speech. We've seen speech codes and political correctness. We've never seen anything like this. This is what you call a case of first impression. This is very different. We've seen it around the world in North Korea and other regimes that are oppressive. We've never seen this in the United States, where you have broad election theft, but you have theft of President Trump's identity, theft of his voice.

Well, we have so much going on. Stick with us for another segment, Congresswoman Bachman. Folks, we'll be right back. I rose above the noise and confusion just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion. Hey there, folks. Welcome back. The Ericman Taxes Show. Yesterday I was banned from communicating on Twitter.

And my Twitter joke, people weren't even allowed to retweet it. so powerful it was the joke so powerful that that the responsible voices in America said no one can retweet Eric's joke. That is where we are. It is lunacy, but it's evil. And I'm speaking with former Congresswoman Michelle Bachman about where we are. And go ahead, Michelle. I just want to Oh, thank you. Well, you know, you had related to me how Twitter had taken down your joke. And the first thing that came to my mind that I shared with you was the opening scene in the movie Cabaret with Liza Manelli when they're in a nightclub and they have their jokes in an underground nightclub because they aren't allowed to have jokes out in public. That's where we are today. This is 2021 in America

and you can't have a conservative commentator give a joke anymore. This is not okay. And that's where the most important thing that any of us can do, we all need to stand with Arizona. Eric Metaxes. We need to stand with anybody who's being shut down and canceled right now because they're starting with the politicians. They're going to the pundits. After that, they'll go to people in legal circles. They'll go to people in academia. They'll go to people in churches. This wave is just starting. Remember, President Trump is still president. And they're in the process of shutting everyone down now while he's still president. And they're trying to be like a can opener and evict him as president and evict the whole

cabinet right now. They can't wait. It's like they just won everything. I mean, just think of this. These are the victors. These are the victors who own every lever of power now in D.C. And they can't take winning for an answer. I mean, think about that.

They just were handed the keys to everything. And so what are they doing with it? They're shaving the heads of their political opponents. and looking to figure how many ways they can bury them. And we can't let them. Why? We're Americans. We have been given rights and liberties.

We have inalienable rights, rights that God gave us, that man and governments can't take away. So let's not go quietly into that good night because this is a form of a political death march that they want us on that they will tell us what liberties we can have and what liberty. we can't. They want to deny us our bill of rights. And I encourage everyone today, go read the Constitution, read the declaration. They're very short documents, very efficiently written, read the Bill of Rights. Those are yours because the Bill of Rights were meant 10 amendments to limit government. Its constraints on government so that you have rights. And so Eric Metaxas just had his bill of rights denied him. So I'm here as a lawyer, as a former member of Congress, as a dean of a government school, to say, I stand with Eric Mataxis and his right to free speech under our government.

That's what we all need to do. Stand with each other whenever any of us are attacked, because trust me, if they can succeed with shutting down Eric Mataxis, they'll succeed with others. Well, and of course they have succeeded in shutting down a number of folks out there. We have to be bold. I mean, listen, I wrote a book on Dietrich Bonhoeffer. When I wrote the book, I didn't write it as a warning against what was coming in the future. I just wrote it because I felt God lead me to write it. But while it was writing it, I had a strong sense of what I was writing being prophetic,

being about what I could smell coming in America. Here we are. What happened in the Capitol was the burning of the Reichstag. To this day, we don't know quite who burned the Reichstag in 1934. But the point is, the Nazis seized upon it as an opportunity to crush all opposition. They seized on it. They did not have what we have, the U.S. Constitution. And Hitler and the Nazis were able to do this. So today, the deep state is effectively Adolf Hitler. Big tech is effectively Gebbels. They are doing whatever they can to push forward an agenda that is completely antithetical to the founder's vision as laid out in our founding documents. And if Americans don't know this and fight against it, and I'm not calling for violence, you know, when I say fight against it, I mean boldly speaking and resisting the nonsense. If we don't do that, if we don't understand who we are, we will lose everything. So Benjamin Franklin said, a republic, madam, if you can keep it,

this is our moment to keep the republic. And it's really a pitched battle. Yeah, it is a pitch battle. You're exactly right. Bonhoeffer was our example. Benjamin Franklin is the one who gave us this brilliant design of government. That's what I'm trying to do here at the Robertson School of Government at Regent University is to faithfully hand the torch to the next generation to teach them, the truth and lift high the standard that is American government. We are the greatest form of government, I believe in the world today, are the form that we were given. And that's what we're trying to do is exactly what Benjamin Franklin encouraged us to do to lift high this standard and keep it. So we're trying to transfer this because what your viewers will be watching in the

days and months ahead absent a miracle from God. And that very well could happen. But in the days and months ahead, we'll be looking at the counterfeit, counterfeit government, not true government. That's what we're trying to teach people. But what we have to do, I believe, is to continue to stand on the Word of God. I went out walking this morning here at Regent. I walked. I listened to the Psalms in my AirPods.

And I was praying the Psalms for our nation, for our government. I was praying over President Trump. And I want to urge every one of your listeners today. our God stands strong. His plans will not be thwarted. And I encourage everyone to stand united today, continue to reach out to a holy God whose word doesn't change like shifting sands. It always stands true. So just think, what's changed? The only thing that's changed are lies. That's it. What's changed is that lies are being enforced upon us as truth. Since when would we as believers, the sons and daughters of the most high, eat a dog dish of lies and conform ourselves to a dog dish of lies. We don't do that.

We stand and we walk in the truth because, again, the only thing that's changed since January 6th is this dog dish of lies that we're told to believe. And, you know, Eric, there are believers who are spouting these lies. There are conservatives. There are politicians. And what we have to do is hang together on what is true. Or we will all hang separately. We're going to be right back with Michelle Bachman. Don't go away, folks. Let me know you were gone.

Susan, the plans they may put an end to you. I walked out this morning. Two more minutes with former Congresswoman Michelle Bachman. We have today, John Zmirak, and also our friend Kevin McCullough, to help us all process the kookiness. Cuckiness is spelled C-O-U-P-K-K-K-Nus. Michelle, if you don't mind, share with us in the few minutes we have in this hour.

What else you think we need to keep thinking about? Yeah, thank you, Eric. You know, we've taken for granted the liberties and freedoms that are so rich that are unique in the world. We're so grateful for them. We continue to pray that we'll live in a sense. society of liberty and we can trust a holy god to hear our prayers and answer us but should absent a miracle should should the lord's sovereign will be that we're going to go into a time that is fully in the hands of one political party in dc we've seen what they said they're planning and what they're

planning is persecution they plan to persecute those who are conservative those who don't agree with them those who don't go along with a radical LGBT agenda certainly the church and so So that's where I think it's important that we understand how to walk if we very likely could be looking at persecution. Pastor Andrew Brunson, who President Trump rescued out of the prisons of Turkish jails, has wept over America and wept over the fact that he doesn't see that the church in the United States is ready for persecution. So I ask, I call on pastors to start teaching about persecution and how we should walk. and live and act in these days, how we should support each other, how we should love each other. But also teach about what the Bible says about these days that we're living in. Too many churches haven't focused on interpreting the times that we live in according to the

scripture. It's important to know that. We're living in the days that the prophets long to live in. These are exciting days. And so the church is more important than ever before. And we don't have to fear. The Bible over and over says we don't have to fear. Fear not. We serve a trustworthy God. So we put our times in his hands. And I have not given up that our God will deliver yet a miracle for us here in America. You're breaking up a little bit. I just want to say before we have to let you go that there are also many voices, many people who claim to speak for the evangelical church. They are, it seems to me, saying things that I consider totally wrong. They're basically telling us all to shut up and to kind of go with the narrative that's being put out there.

And I have to say, you know, they're telling us to conform. And listen, if I believe the narrative were correct, I would be saying the same thing. But everything in me says this narrative is not correct. There's too much that I see that is really suspicious. The kind of thing, the way Joe Biden at Alia handled themselves in the last few months, it didn't seem to me that they were clamoring for transparency. It seemed to me they were trying to run out the clock and say, shut up, shut up, get people to shut up, and we'll just, we're just going to win this thing, and then we'll get to shut everybody up. That's effectively what's happening. There is no way that, anyone like you or me would countenance that or would go along with that because that is,

you know, as was famously said, silence in the face of evil is itself evil. To keep amounts shut at a time like this would be deeply irresponsible. It'd be deeply irresponsible. Just a few seconds left, Congresswoman. Yeah, we are we are not required to agree with each other in this country. We have a right. It's a mature adult thing to respect each other's opinions. That's what we need to do. We need to stand strong. We need to love God. We need to love each other. And I want to encourage everyone.

Resist being depressed. Resist being discouraged. Be joyous. Every day I wake up and I say, this is the day the Lord hath made. I will rejoice and be glad in it. And every night before I close my eyes on my pillow, I ask God for a miracle. I pray for our nation. I pray for our president.

I pray for my family. Let's keep doing that. And I think we'll stand strong. God bless you. Thank you so much.