35 Burst results for "Warnock"
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Will Democrat Senators Vote to Impeach Joe Biden?
"So the question now is, and by the way, you've got Rafael Warnock in the Senate. You've got Ilhan Omar and AOC and several other Democrats now are starting to raise concerns. So is this all just happening spontaneously? I don't think so. I don't believe so. I believe that the powers that be one Barack Hussein Obama and Susan Rice knew all along that Biden had these documents. You think they just you think the attorneys just suddenly one day they're wandering through the Biden pin center and they say, oh wow, what's this? Maybe they were looking for a menu to order Chinese takeout? And instead, they open up the drawers and there you go, there are classified documents. You think that really happened? Come on, ladies and gentlemen. I suspect it's very possible that this was the plan to remove Biden from office if the Democrats had lost the midterm elections by a tsunami. That plan had already been hatched that plan was already in the process of being put into place and shockingly when the Democrats did not lose by a massive tsunami. Well, guess what? The plan was still there. So at this point, we're looking at a couple of things. The investigations are going to happen. No doubt about it. There's a pretty good chance Biden's going to get impeached. Now the question is, will there be enough Republicans in the Senate should that happen? And again, we're a little bit, I don't want to get too far out ahead of our skis here. But if that's the case, you could have some Democrats switch sides. And vote with the Republicans to give Biden the heave hope.
AP News Radio
Biden welcomed back to Georgia after lying low in midterms
"President Biden heads to Georgia tomorrow for a ceremony to honor doctor Martin Luther King Jr. after staying away from the state during the midterm elections. A White House adviser says President Biden will be the first sitting president to deliver a sermon during Sunday morning services at the historic ebenezer baptist church, where doctor king had preached. The president will not only reflect on doctor king's legacy, but also emphasize voting rights legislation, which is stalled on Capitol Hill. Senator Raphael Warnock issued the invitation. He presides over the church, but he had kept President Biden at arm's length during the midterm elections because of the president's lagging approval ratings. And now the Atlanta appearances notable, as President Biden looks to a 2024 reelection campaign, now dogged with the disclosure that classified documents have been found at his Delaware home and a Washington D.C. office. Jackie Quinn, Washington
The Dan Bongino Show
Biden Traded the Merchant of Death for Brittney Griner
"You might have missed it but Brittany griner the WNBA players she was apparently headed back to the United States now in a prisoner swap With the merchant of death so yes the Biden administration swapped in international arms dealer with probably a sea of blood on his hands for Brittany griner from WNBA And as an angle I haven't heard discussed yet today that quickly I'm going to bring up and I want to move on to so that mother stuff because I do really have a show to you that I got the receipts to back it up here You're looking at Fox nation at home if you're watching We have four pages full of stuff that the team and I have put together for you But don't you find the timing of this interesting Shows you how the Russians operate Tim you see where I'm going with this Did you listen to podcasts Why don't you get the cheap No okay good good I rarely get a virgin ears from Jimmy Listen to the podcast sometimes So you live time He gets to he's got a video connection or a audio connection going to the studio there somehow How he does it I don't know He's probably got my house wired He's got it bugged Yeah he's got a bug He's like Jim Bakker from the FBI So here's how the Russians work Did you notice that they waited for the last election of the cycle the Herschel Walker Warnock runoff to break before they announce this You think that's a coincidence This is how the Russians work
The Doug Collins Podcast
Politics Is All About Timing
"Politics is all that time in jail. I mean, Jimmy Carter would have never got to elect a president in any other cyclist at 1976. I mean, you look at just the, you know, Barack Obama's timing in 2008. I mean, I got good friends in Illinois who still remember, you know, less than three or four years before this man was elected president. They were seeing him in the legislature in Illinois, you know, and him voting president in Illinois. This was just not something you could forsake coming. Timing matters. And Donald Trump, in his way, not only did his style, but his timing was, again, against Hillary Clinton. But one of the issues I think this interesting with Stacey Abrams was is I think you were right. People got tired over lightning struck in 2018. It did not strike in 2022. But one of the things is recently, if you've read and everything's going on right now about post, here's what we got to do. And I'm sort of sick of parties getting together and deciding what is wrong with the parties and doing it from a national approach when most of these elections and I thought was when I was in Congress or decided in decidedly nuanced issues in a lot of areas. But she said something her campaign team is now making her out to be Moses and either Warnock or the other candidates in the future will be the Joshua's. They'll get down to the promised land because of all this dicey sacrifice to get them there. That's sort of the narrative being portrayed there. Some of it, I'm gonna have to say is probably a little fruit. She finally got them back into the grassroots narrative that they had lost for a few years. But it's going to be interesting to see if the Republicans can learn from that.
The Doug Collins Podcast
Chip Lake: 'The Voters Always Make the Rules'
"Identification process. Non Republican non Democrat independent, whatever they want to call themselves. Back and forth. From your perspective, I mean, you've been in general consultant for years. You've looked at polls. I've looked at pose. How is that really going to play out? Or do we really know yet? Well, I don't know that we really know. I mean, you've heard me say a million times. You know, that, you know, in this business, the consultants don't make the rules. The candidates don't make the rules. The press doesn't make the rules. The voters always make the rules. And so what we're always trying to do is figure out what voter behavior is going to be in a particular election cycle. And, you know, I'll give you perfect example. And the general election in Georgia in the Senate race, one of the things that everybody got wrong, not just in the Senate race, but overall too. One of the things that everybody got wrong was the turnout modeling, right? I mean, going into election day, November 8th of this year, I mean, you know, we thought there would be around 4.5 million people vote. I know there were three other major candidates whose teams, you know, you had the governor, you had Stacey Abrams. You had Rafael Warnock, and I know for a fact that their teams had had voter turnout modeling somewhere in the vicinity of 4.4 to 4.7 million. And the voters of Georgia decided only 3.9 million of them wanted to show up and so it was a substantial difference. I mean, you're pulling is only as good as your modeling and everybody's modeling was incorrect. And so, you know, Doug, I think the answer to your question is we just don't know. We have to wait to see how it plays out.
AP News Radio
After midterms, GOP reconsidering antipathy to mail ballots
"Are starting to reconsider the party's resistance to mail in ballots. Got to be careful with those ballots. Watch those ballots. When former president Donald Trump condemned mail in voting in 2020, conservatives began to shy away from it. They're unsolicited millions being sent to everybody. But Republican National Committee chair ronna mcdaniel said on Fox News this week that Republican voters need to cast ballots early beyond the challenges of COVID-19, ballot glitches, long lines, or bad weather on election day, giving Democrats a multi week jump on voting makes it more difficult for Republican candidates to catch up. In Georgia's Senate runoff, Democrat Raphael Warnock topped Herschel Walker by an almost two to one ratio in mail ballots, Tea Party organizer Debbie Dooley is a Trump loyalist, but says the midterms were the last straw, the GOP has got to put a priority on competing with Democrats from the start, she says, and beat them at their own game.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
Danielle Covers the Recent Loss of the Georgia Senate Race
"We just got the sad news that Herschel Walker has lost his race for the United States Senate. Warnock unfortunately will continue to be one of Georgia's senators. And something I want to draw attention to is that Georgia, traditionally a red state, maybe now a purple state because of Atlanta. Is literally represented as though it is a blue state. Georgia will continue to have two Democrat senators representing them in Warnock and ossoff. I find this really weird because Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate, cleanly and clearly won his race for governor in Georgia this fall. So something is going on here where for some reason, people are voting red for statewide offices, yet voting blue for nationwide offices. We apparently saw very high turnout in the runoff, but it may not have been enough Republican voters turning out Herschel. So what does this mean for us as a nation? This means that the Democrats will have a 51 majority. So an even greater majority than they had before. This means they will no longer need Kamala Harris as a tie breaker vote. This also means that senator Manchin and senator sinema will carry a little less weight than they had before and being able to block the runaway train of the radical Democrats. So this is all very bad news. But the good news is, the Republicans have taken the house so we have a narrow margin there. So we will hopefully be able to get some things done hopefully be able to prevent the nation from getting far worse too quickly. But the house has had no say in confirming appointments. So those will likely all go through the Democrat controlled Senate and presidency and be confirmed.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Georgia Republicans Had One Job, Stayed Home Instead
"Obviously, bad news out of Georgia and I wish I could spin it. I wish I could tell you that it isn't bad news. Or isn't that bad? It's not catastrophic. I mean, even with Herschel winning, the Democrats technically still had a Senate majority, and I suppose that might have been what caused Republicans to stay home. But stay home they did. Democrats showed up. In Georgia and nearly 200,000 Republicans in Georgia, stayed home. It's really, really stunning because Georgia Republicans had one job. And the country needed those Georgia Republicans. Approximately one point 9 million Georgia Republicans voted for Herschel Walker on November 8th, approximately 1.7 million voted in this runoff. 200,000 fewer Georgia Republicans. And to a Georgia Republican who will call this show and say, well, yeah, I just couldn't pull the lever for Herschel because I just didn't show up because he wasn't a great candidate. I'd say to you, so you want Rafael Warnock? You think he's a better candidate?
The Officer Tatum Show
Have Black Pastors Become Bad Actors?
"Let me get back into the conversation I was having because I'm frustrated. This is necessary nobody's talking about it. We need to change it. We need to call these people out. How do you fix your brand and how you get to the community, the church, and for our churches to be putting our people in the bad position is just beyond me. It's our professors and our churches. And I don't because somebody out there, I can hear them right now. Saying, what about the white churches do it too? Well, black people ain't going to white churches. By large numbers. They don't. In case you have never been to a black community. Most black people go to black churches. And also these professors, I hate to say it, but black people are biased. It's so is everybody else. But black people are biased not in a unique way, but you're biased. If a black professor tells you something about black people, you're going to believe that person over white people. Not 100% of the time, but it is a thing. So when you have black pastors saying things about the black community with authority claiming they are hearing from the lord, black people typically will listen to them. You have professors, they were listening to them.
The Officer Tatum Show
Pastor Jamal Bryant Wants to Grow WEED at the Church
"If it had, if it wasn't for good white people who've adopted the American Dream, we would be screwed as a country. Because if you look at the progressive vote, it is destructive to America. We're going to be, we're going to be an internment camps. Messing with folk that only think about emotions when they vote. How come you blend the church with the LGBTQ? How can you blame the church with abortions? That's what Rafael Warnock offers and people eat it up. I got a video. I'm a send it as soon as Nick get my message he'll send it over. You got past the Jamal Bryant in Atlanta. Talking about he needs to go and get land so the church can sell weed. This is what you get. He's the same one criticizing her she walker. And that man had cheated on his wife. Oh no, how many times? At least once had a baby out of whitlock, on his wife, while he was the pastor of the church. This is the best we can do. And they lift that man up like he a king. Eggman is a dirtbag.
The Officer Tatum Show
Rage Against the Extreme
"Get the message across, gain the love and respect from the people, get in office and be a conservative. And then people are going to love and admire you once they see what your policies are. But you can't get restricted on policy before you ever get put in a position of power. And I think that the brand of Donald Trump has been damaged so much that it's going to hurt us more than it's going to help us for him to continue to run. a lot of candidates that were Trump trumpers, they lost. Why would they lose? The people are speaking. Everything ain't cheating, and Arizona, I can't speak for that 'cause Arizona, they did all kind of stuff. And they need to get to the bottom what happened in Arizona. But all these other states, they ain't cheating. I don't see no evidence of them cheating. Are they out? Are they outsmarting us? Maybe that's maybe that's the case, but flat out cheating. Like the 2020 election, no, I don't think they cheated. You know, in some states, Democrats were funding Republicans in the primary who were ultra maga Republicans. To get them to the general and they lost, how did they know they were going to lose? If it's all rig, they don't care to spend money on a maga Republican. It's because they knew that they painted the picture that a maga Republicans is extreme. It doesn't matter what the truth is. It matter how they been able to craft and paint the picture.
The Officer Tatum Show
What Is the Way Forward for Republicans?
"We better start making some decisions fast. We got two years to try to get this right. We have to understand that we got to be more strategic, we should have learned through the midterms that coming out being ultra ultra ultra, magga and all this stuff. People can't digest it properly. And maybe we need to work on the way we say things, not be fraudulent, but work on the way we say things and say things that are maybe more important to people than that's important to be in the shock factor. Going viral. Because you can say certain things to people to make them feel comfortable that you are a candidate that they can vote for, even if they don't agree with everything you say. And once you get in office, you can do whatever you want to do. And when I say do whatever you want to do, you can be a little more conservative in office. oh, I like the way he's governing. I like the way he's in the Senate. Oh, this is what a conservative can do. I'm glad I took a chance. Let me give you an example. Let me give you an example. Kyrsten sinema in a state of Arizona. She will not lose her seat to a Republican ever. Now, Mark Kelly might kyrsten sinema won't. And I'm not going to lie. I don't agree with kyrsten sinema. She's a Democrat. However, the way she votes, I can respect it. For the most part, I can respect it. I don't lose sleep at night over Kirsten sinema. She fights back when I think it's reasonable to fight back and she goes on a Democrat side and sometimes I don't agree with her. But I respect her enough that if they ran a Martha mcsally against her, she's a better candidate in Martha mcsally.
The Officer Tatum Show
Why Do Republicans Keep Losing?
"Nobody knows her should walk her son. But except for me identifying as Herschel Walker's son. Nobody know who he is. And he will become irrelevant. Here soon. But it was our fault that Herschel did not win. It was hers fault that Herschel did not win. And Republicans need to take a step back and evaluate what are we doing why are we losing? Because I feel like Warnock is a trashy candidate when he's up for reelection in 6 years from now. He's going to be a vulnerable candidate. I think he'll be an easy target to take out. He is not a quality candidate. He is not a Christian man. He is not a representative of the black community if you ask me. Why do they vote for him? Because he's a Democrat. And because it has been a disdain for Republicans that's imprinted in the minds of black people in Georgia.
The Officer Tatum Show
Herschel Walker Loses Georgia Senate Race
"Big news coming out. That Herschel Walker did not win. The election. And so we'll talk about that right now and I know that there's a lot of people that may want to make an excuse, but I believe that there's no excuses that need to be made. We literally did not win the race. We did not win. And if you see that Brian Kemp won and we lost, this race, then that tells you something. It tells you that we did not compete and we did not do the things that were necessary to win this race. It wasn't cheating. It wasn't ballot harvesting and none of that of the stuff because those things, we could have done to if you help ourselves in this particular election, but we didn't do what it takes to win. And I'm glad to see that Herschel Walker made up in his mind that he was going to say he's not going to make any excuses and that we just did not run a good race. Let me give you some numbers. I think I had them here. So if you didn't watch the election, I think with 99% of the vote in, I don't know if they have a 100% of the vote, but this is as of the 7th, which is today 9 45 a.m. this morning. Harsher walker ended up getting 48% of the vote and Raphael Warnock got 51% of the vote. So he got beat by a pretty decent margin.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why Didn't Georgia Conservatives Vote?
"We are recapping the unfortunate Senate results from Georgia a very winnable race where unfortunately, Raphael Warnock will go on to a 6 year term. Someone said, well, Charlie, how do we know they didn't show up? Well, Georgia has the second most counties of any state in the country, and you can just go county by county, go to Wayne county, go to tattnall county, go to tombs county, go to Emmanuel county, their turnout was just down. It's just people who came and showed up or did not show up. It's that simple. We're not even talking about the nonsense and Fulton or Henry or dak or Cobb, turnout was down, and it manifested in hershel walker, unfortunately coming about 95,000 votes short, but 200,000 people in the state of Georgia had something better to do.
AP News Radio
The difference a 51-49 Senate majority makes to Democrats
"Democrats are celebrating their 51 49 Senate majority following Raphael Warnock's win in the Georgia runoff. As Warnock returned to the capitol, he was greeted outside by Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, who hours earlier couldn't stop smiling after the longest evenly split Senate in modern times. It gives us just a lift. An end to the days were just one Democrat could snarl legislation. The outright majority will also make simple governing easier and allow Senate Democrats to be a barrier against legislation from the GOP led house. Schumer figures the Democrats unexpectedly strong midterms showing sent a message to Trump inspired Republicans. That if they follow a maga direction,
WTOP
"warnock" Discussed on WTOP
"The Senate's top Democrats says the reelection of Georgia senator Raphael Warnock gives the party more breathing room to address a wide range of issues, and it's another blow to former president Trump who had endorsed Herschel Walker. Here's WTO's Mitchell Miller today on the hill. They say all good things come to those who wait. And this outcome is absolutely worth the way. Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, noting senator Warnock's victory ends nearly two years of a 50 50 Senate. Schumer says Democrats 51 49 margin means they'll be able to do a lot more in committees and with judicial nominees. Obviously judges and nominees will be a lot easier to put on the bench. For Republicans, walker's loss was one of several involving Senate candidates who had been backed by former president Trump in a year where the GOP was positioned for a possible power shift in the Senate as well as the house. On Capitol Hill, Mitchell Miller, WTO P news. Well, the race between Warnock and walker was the most expensive race of the 2022 midterms and possibly one of the most dramatic Atlanta reporter in WTO alum Rao Bali covered both campaigns closely. He says the post mortem of walker's losing campaign is already begun. There's going to be second guessing on messaging on approach, the idea that he really focused on conservative base voters and not swing voters. You know, he did a little about inflation and gas prices, but he was focusing on red meat conservative issues. The majority of his campaign stops in the final days were in conservative areas. There's going to be questions about that. With Warnock's win, Democrats will have a 51 to 49 majority in the Senate and the upcoming session. Drivers
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
West Virginia Vs. The EPA
"Now let's move to West Virginia versus EPA, 'cause I wanted to thank you personally. People have no idea. I wrote a Washington Post column about the 6 month. This is the most important freedom case in the last three. I think Dobbs was big. Dobbs was huge. For saving life. But for saving freedom of people who were already alive, West Virginia versus EPA is, would you explain to people what that was about and how you succeeded? You want to the biggest cases we've seen in our lifetime. And here's why at the end of the day, a lot of people talked about the fact that all Morrissey went after the Biden climate agenda and we halted it on the regulatory side and some of the mandates still trying to put in place. But what this really, this case was really about essence, was in our country, you have a question. Who gets to decide the major questions of the day? Should it be unelected? Bureaucrats or should it be the people's representatives in Congress? And I think that the court was very clear that when you have matters of vast economic and political significance, it's, of course, critical for the Congress to make the decisions as to how it's going to proceed and not leave this to the unelected bureaucrats who reached out into their bag of tricks, pull out, twist to the ambiguous praise and say, we're going to reorder the nation's power grid or we're going to put broad new fashion mandates in place that osha and in other federal agencies, the CDC eviction,
The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Kevin McCarthy's Bid for House Speaker May Really Be in Peril
"Allies of Kevin McCarthy and poor GOP holdouts to back him for speaker. Now, this is something worthy of your time and attention. Call up your Republican congressperson, say, would you please get Kevin McCarthy into the speaker's chair immediately? And we're going to slap around forever. Everyone who opposes it. There are banished from this show. You'll never hear a good word. Now, they might be posturing right now. And I don't know who's going to vote against him in round one. But if they screw this up, they're costing momentum. They're costing us time. Kevin McCarthy is going to be the speaker. He's going to be a very good speaker. He's a great leader in California and a great minority leader. He's going to be a great speaker. And people are screwing with him. There are 222 Republicans and a handful of them between two and 8 are screwing around with them. And those two and 8 people should be exiled. If they end up screwing this up, they should just be exiled from our roles. And I mean, from the roles of conservative media, they should not be on Fox. They should not be on the Hugh Hewitt show. They should not get your money. They should never get your time attention or favorable because they are screwing up the transition of power. We are actually better off than we were at the start of 2020, even though we have lost the Senate 51 to 49 and we had hoped to take it. That's disappointing, but having the house matters provided the house works like a conservative Republican House ought to work. That's
The Breakdown with Shaun King
"warnock" Discussed on The Breakdown with Shaun King
"Walker. I don't know what makes me happier. Knowing that Herschel Walker will never be in the United States Senate. Or knowing that Rafael Warnock will be there for the next 6 years. That's how bad Herschel Walker was and is. It's like the idea of him being a United States senator was so preposterous. And it is, it is really wild. That he almost won. Like, it's that close, that it goes to a runoff and ends up being like 51 to 48. And one and a half million people. Voted for Herschel Walker and it's like, you did what? It's so ridiculous. But I'm nothing but glad that Rafael Warnock is going to be in the United States Senate for the next 6 years. That's good for Atlanta. It's good for all of Georgia, it's good for the United States Senate to have him there. It's good for the potential outlook on the appointment of judges and other things they're in the Senate. He is important to have in the room. And so I'm just glad he'll be there. He'll have an enormous impact on his colleagues, he is a man of integrity and I'm excited that I think he'll be able to let his guard down a little bit because yesterday was actually the fourth election Rafael Warnock has had to go through in the past two years. He had a runoff and a victory two years ago for just a two year term and another runoff and a victory for this one. Now he can actually get out of campaign mode for a little bit. And think about policy and do some work. But I can't shake one underlying takeaway. And it's something that we saw with the election of Joe Biden. And it is greatly magnified in Georgia of all places. The Democratic Party would not have any power to speak of. If not for black people. If not for black voters. Rafael Warnock would not be senator in Georgia, John ossoff would not be a senator in Georgia. Black people had to show up in record numbers. And vote almost unanimously for Rafael Warnock for it to be possible. And such a thing is not expected of any other ethnic group. Almost every other ethnic group votes for Democrats and Republicans. If not, 50, 50, 60, 40, even sometimes 70, 30, but African Americans have to vote almost 100% democratic. For Rafael Warnock to win. And it's a thing that no other ethnic group is expected to do. And that is kind of working. Like if African Americans don't vote almost 100% for Joe Biden, he doesn't win. And so this almost unanimous support. Is not just expected. It is required for Democrats to win races all over the country. And yet I don't see the policy schedule. I don't see the policies coming out of the Biden administration out of the Senate. That mirror the reality that African Americans are the only reason Democrats have power. Or at the very least are the primary reason. Democrats have power. Without the unanimous support, it was 90% and above African Americans, men and women voted for Rafael Warnock yesterday. No other ethnic group was even remotely close to that. And yet I don't see the policies to match that reality. Let me unpack and explain it. I have a quick word from some of our sponsors and I'll be right back. The breakdown. What the breakdown. You know, I think what we have now is a scenario where the Democratic Party has black people in power in some really key positions. Obviously, a black woman is vice president. Black man is a senator from Georgia. Probably should be two black folk. That are the senators from Georgia. But whatever. A black man is about to be the democratic leader in the House. And I appreciate all of those things. I do. That representation, a lot of my friends fall on the side of saying, listen. Racial representation doesn't mean as much as we say it does. Like a lot of my closest friends and allies in listen, what really matters is policy. And so if we are electing black people to office and Joe Biden is appointing black people to office, but don't actually fight for policies and positions that benefit and protect black people, then what's the point? That's a huge part of my community feels that way. And I understand it. I almost agree. I almost agree that if you're not going to actually have policies that benefit black people, then it definitely reduces the impact of having black people in positions. If you're ultimately going to be supporting an agenda, that primarily helps white people, but you do it with black people in power, and that's not that's not the deal I want. I am I fall in the middle, like I am glad we have capable qualified black people in power. So I'm glad about that. But I agree with my comrades and my colleagues that it's got to be more than that and I also agree that the most important thing is the agenda. The most important thing are the policies. And now that thank you that we have a black man that is in charge of the DNC. I see the representation. And that's a breakthrough. But now we need an agenda that actually meets that representation. I hope
The Ben Shapiro Show
"warnock" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"So that means that you're going to see a lot more talk about school buses in Venn diagrams and her Julie Andrews tour of things that her very favorite thing. Meanwhile, the Anthony Fauci, goodbye to her continues. He just will not go like this is the longest goodbye tour in history. It's like watching a band go on a 5 year farewell tour here. So Anthony Fauci, most famous in completely botching the COVID response in every imaginable way. He was asked yesterday if he would change anything over the course of his long and storied career. And he's like, nope, wouldn't change a thing. I have a few 100,000 people, million people, hundreds of millions of people who made us agree with you. Doctor Fauci? First, I want to ask you, is there a moment of your career that you wish you could do over? Jasmine, no. And I know they're going to people are going to respond to that who say, well, what does he think he's perfect? Absolutely. I'm the first to admit I'm far from perfect. But when you say do over, you know, I really can't see something that I would do completely over. Nothing? Literally nothing? How about when you said that masks didn't work, then he said that masks did work. How about when you said that schools should close, and then you also said the school should open. How about when you suggested and continue to suggest that getting the vaccine prevents transmission when the evidence suggests that it does not, in fact, prevent transmission at any market level. But he has nothing to no regards. Neck tattoos say, no regrets is Doctor Fauci. By the way, it turns out that Doctor Fauci actually did do a deposition recently. It was a recent deposition involving Anthony Fauci. He said, I don't recall 174 times during this deposition. Which is a lot of times to say, I don't recall. And this person is going to be hauled in front of Congress to explain his behavior for sure. And that will make for some very amusing tape at the very, very least. Okay, meanwhile, completely different topic. I do want to comment on the rise of what people call chat GPT. So chat GPT is a form of artificial intelligence. It is very entertaining, kind of cool. It's a free AI chat bot that you've probably been hearing all of your friends talk about. If you haven't, you probably soon will. People are saying that it could essentially reduce Google to rubble because now you just type in a question and instead of you receiving a list of search results, chat GPT essentially consolidates all the information from the web into some sort of answer. It also has some writing ability and joking ability, which is something that AI has not had before. It itself will say that it's not creative. It's not something that creates new invention. You can't type into chat GPT, invent for me a new thing. And it'll invent for you a new thing. But if you type into chat GPT, something like tell me a knock knock joke involving Donald Trump. It'll make you up a knock knock joke involving Donald Trump. Now last night I was having fun with this with my daughter, we were typing into chat GPT. Tell me a story about a man fighting a giant duck and it'll actually write out like a 5 paragraph story about a man fighting a giant duck. The Wall Street Journal reports, Chad GPT is a free AI chatbot that has been all over your social feeds lately. In need of homework help, who is George Washington cover produces an answer worthy of Wikipedia, but it can also get creative. You can type in something like write a movie script of a taco fighting a hot dog on the beach. And it will generate a page of dialog humor in action. The taco will say, so you can think you can take me hot dog, you have nothing but a processed meat product with no flavor in the hot dog replies, you may be made of delicious savory ingredients taco, but I have the advantage of being able to be eaten with one hand. I mean, that's AI that's doing that. The AI is getting very, very sophisticated in its ability to imitate human conduct or imitate human creativity, even if it is not overtly creative. But Chad GPT isn't actually looking anything up. It's essentially a large scale predictive text mechanism. Instead of searching the web and then sort of consolidating information, what it's doing is by using trial and error and by using human input, it's essentially recognizing what people think would come next. And then it is typing that into the machine. As The Wall Street Journal says, it's an AI trained by a massive trove of data researchers gathered from the Internet and
The Ben Shapiro Show
"warnock" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"By the way, it is worth noting here that many Republicans didn't show up to vote for Herschel Walker in the first round of this election. Raphael Warnock beat Herschel Walker, but only by about 35,000 votes. He won 1.941 million votes in that original election. That would be the one where Brian camp was at the top of the ticket. Herschel Walker ended up with 1.906, million votes. So about 3.8 million votes cast in that election in this runoff election, as I say about 3.5 million votes cast. Two to 300,000 people did not show up to vote in the selection who showed up to vote in the original election. That's not a huge drop off, actually. But it is evidence that there are a bunch of people who sort of voted because virtual walkers on the ballot. On the same ballot as Brian Kemp. So Brian Kemp, who is widely hated by president Trump, pressure walker, who is beloved of a president Trump, again, a disparate result for the former president of the United States. As I say, when it comes to Joe Biden, Joe Biden is going to take away the message here. Now that he has a 51 49 majority in the Senate, even if he has lost the house, that he has all the momentum. And so he's already talking about launching his reelect campaign. He gave a speech yesterday in which he talked about how optimistic he was about America's future. And honestly, you can't blame the guy. I mean, he just ran the most successful midterm campaign of any president of our lifetimes, at least since 2002, which was right after 9 11. So you can't blame him, but it is a lot of blindness going on here. He's blaming himself to the reality. He's a very weak president. And the Republicans just happen to be very bad at their jobs. Federal investment attracts private sector investment. Creates jobs and industry and demonstrates where all of this together. And that's what today is about. I've never been more optimistic, and I mean, it's been around a long while. As you can see, but I've never been more optimistic about America's future. And I really mean that. Well, I mean, I've never been less optimistic about the president's ability to speak in a separate words. There should be spaces between your
The Ben Shapiro Show
"warnock" Discussed on The Ben Shapiro Show
"Ben. Well, as expected, Raphael Warnock held back a challenge from Herschel Walker in the Senate runoff election in Georgia. It was widely expected that walker was not going to do as well in the runoff election as he did in the actual election with Brian Kemp at the top of the ticket because Kemp was not honest. He gets to drag him to victory. Walker's turnout was significantly higher than I think a lot of people had predicted. The race was a lot closer than I think a lot of people had predicted. The final result between walker and Warnock ended up being pretty close. If you look at the latest result, Raphael Warnock went about 1.8 million votes 1.817 million votes and Herschel Walker won 1.719 million votes we lost by about a 100,000 votes out of a little bit under 3 million votes cast about 2.5 million votes with 3.5 million votes were cast actually a little under 4 million votes in that election cycle was lost by a little bit under a 100,000 votes, which is a relatively large margin. Now, if you recall, Warnock and walker were essentially dead even in the original election, in that election, Brian Kemp won by a significant margin against Stacey Abrams. Kemp is the only reason that walker was even close in the runoff election because the entire voting machine that had been built by Brian Kemp in Georgia allowed Herschel Walker to take advantage of it, but the fact of the matter is that Herschel Walker was a particularly weak candidate. It turns out that picking candidates on the basis of name recognition is not a wonderful way to pick candidates. Obviously, president Trump's picks in the Senate went down to flaming defeat in literally every race in which they ran. Essentially, in this last election cycle, this means that Joe Biden has become the first sitting president not to lose a Senate seat in his first midterm election since FDR, which is quite astonishing and can't really be attributed to Joe Biden's stellar performance. It will be attributed to Joe Biden's stellar performance, of course, because the media have an interest in pretending Joe Biden is good at his job. That is going to lead Joe Biden to make some very bad decisions in the near future as he feels his oats and believes that he has all the momentum with him. He's apparently set to launch his reelect campaign as soon as the beginning of the year. Meanwhile, who exactly did Georgians just reelected the Senate Raphael Warnock is a radical. He is a very, very radical politician. His voted with Joe Biden literally every policy. He's a person who has spoken up in favor of people like Louis Farrakhan before. Raphael Warnock is a person who says that Jesus would protect abortion, which is a very odd theology. There was Raphael Warnock saying just that over the past couple of days. Are we looking at trying to fight a national abortion ban? Well, I think that's one of the things that's on the ballot tomorrow. And it is Herschel Walker's position on this is extreme. He says he wants a national band, no exceptions. That would include rape incest, the life of the mother, but I've been studying the scriptures my whole life. I'm committed to the faith, and as a pastor, I have a profound reverence for life, and as a pastor in a person of faith, I have a deep respect for choice. And so if you care about life, we ought to find a way that's a place where government could show up. And address the obvious bias in our healthcare system. It's what Jesus would do. I think it's exactly what Jesus would be pro choice and also for nationalized healthcare. That was obviously on Jesus political program. Raphael Warnock is way too radical for the state of Georgia. He's just had the very fortunate coincidence of running against a candidate last time around in Kelly loeffler, who is hamstrung by her own poor candidacy as well as Donald Trump telling people not to vote. And then this time around, he was given the gift of Herschel Walker as an opposing candidate, a man for whom half the state of Georgia is apparently genetically related. Herschel Walker turned out to be a really, really bad candidate. They probably, after drafting him, they should have traded him to Minnesota for pecs is an account on Twitter suggested. All of this suggests not that Democrats have a new pathway to victory, but that actually the weakness is being masked by Republican weakness. As always, the game of American politics right now is hot potato, in which the potato is insanity. And everyone just keeps passing the potato back and forth. I will say that it is fairly incredible that the Democratic Party continues to maintain in the aftermath of extraordinary voter turnout. Like huge voter turnout in this runoff election. And an election in which the Democrat won by a 100,000 votes that voter suppression is still a major issue over on MSNBC Eugene Daniels was suggesting that voter suppression was a major issue in the Georgia runoff elections. And this has been a democratic talking point for a long time here, is that basically, if Democrats lose, it's because Georgia is racist. And if Democrats win, it's in spite of Georgia being racist. It is a completely unfalsifiable thesis. They have lied and they've suggested that George's voter law has made it incredibly tough to vote. That, of course, is not true at all. And Democrats continue to win Senate races in a state in which they should not be winning Senate races. There is Eugene's Daniels however making the case that voter suppression continues to be the major issue over there. Eugene, The Washington Post is pointing out importantly today that the Georgia runoff system was actually created by segregationist Denmark groover in the 1960s to try to dilute the black vote. How is it being felt today? Yeah, this is something that when you talk to activists, advocates and strategists organizers on the ground in Georgia, which I did earlier this year. They bring us up a lot to talk about how this kind of pronounced system, first of all, and just the historic way that segregation dismantled and took away the power of black books in the south. And they've been feeling that in Georgia forever and they point to this as Georgia using this process that was Denmark groover eventually said and admitted was intended to make sure that black people's vote was suppressed. Black people's vote is not being suppressed. The fact that this narrative continues to be respected in mainstream media, the narrative of a voter fraud is not respected mainstream media because there's not a lot of evidence of widespread widespread voter fraud amounting to thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. However, the narrative, the Democrats keep trotting out there that voter suppression is keeping hundreds of thousands of people from the polls. That is treated with tremendous respect, even though it is obviously a
Bloomberg Radio New York
"warnock" Discussed on Bloomberg Radio New York
"Quality, the issues in this race have been nationalized. And we have seen both candidates actually try to sort of fall in line with their national parties. So when Herschel Walker has talked about issues, he is certainly talked about them at a national context trying to tie Raphael Warnock to Joe Biden, who is a net unfavorable in the state. He's certainly leaned into cultural issues in an attempt to try to rile up the base to ensure high voter turnout. Amongst his base. And Rafael Warnock has run a campaign where he's talked about bipartisanship, so that's the local kind of angle on this that he recognizes that he's in a state where there are more conservatives than there would be in state like California and New York. For instance, but he has still huge toward party lines on social issues like abortion. And emphasize that in terms of his outreach to female 1.0489 voters in particular who may be against by the the Doc's dollar decision.. Balance So of power professor continues Gillespie, you make a on really, I Bloomberg think, interesting radio point. that it really has a lot to do with the Melissa quality of the from candidates Michigan. And we've heard a, lot of I the quality work an of extra Herschel part time Walker job serving or lunch perhaps some people at would say my lack child's of quality school.. But it But appears at least that I Raphael Warnock still has can't not afford sealed to the deal put food with Georgia on our voters table yet. Now he's. only there Daniel two years from in California fairness to him. But, what has choosing he done whether for to pay Georgia the rent or or pay to what fix the could car he to have get done to work doesn't leave us to with really much at have all put this. away Now we can't even against pay Herschel for Walker meals before. now? Hunger So I think is it's a important story to we realize can that the end strike the fact, that end it Warnock is at the feeding incumbent in America this race dot and he org does have some, brought resources to you by and feeding advantages America that came along and the ad with council having been in. the office for There's almost so two much years news now. happening He's around still the world that the we're underdog somehow. Georgia supposed to stay Democrats on top of still. That's why don't we have the launched same numbers as the Republicans big take do. So. they're It's still a daily more podcast Republicans than from there are Bloomberg Democrats in and the iHeartRadio state. And that so turns he was down the the one that volume was still of at it a disadvantage to. give That's you why some he started space raising to money think early. and started I'm west raising kosova a lot of it. Each. weekday Because I while dig it wasn't going into to be impossible one important for him to story be able to and win talk, it about was still going to be why more it difficult matters and challenging.. It wasn't Listen a foregone to conclusion that he was going to be able to hold on to this seat. I think one of the reasons why we're in the race that we're in right now has an awful lot to do with the fact that Herschel Walker proved to be a weak candidate. If, say, the second place primary finisher Gary blackhead run. I think that there is a case to arguably be made that he could have written Brian Kemp's coattails to defeating Raphael Warnock. So we are in the position where we are in because Herschel Walker just proved to be a less than ideal candidate. And Raphael Warnock was strong enough to be able to supplant that and he's been able to put in a mobilization operation that can actually go toe to toe with the Republicans mobilization operation and we'll see the fruits of that today. So ultimately it's which candidate has the least erosion in terms of the turnout of their particular base today that's going to end up being the one that wins. Professor Gillespie for those of us of a certain age is certainly excludes you, but includes me. It might be remarkable that we have two black men running for Senate from Georgia. There was a day that that would have been pretty exceptional. Is this historically significant or not? Or maybe we've made that much progress as a country. So it isn't it isn't. So I don't think it's surprising that you will see two black candidates running for statewide office like U.S. Senate in the Deep South. In fact, this is also was the case this cycle in South Carolina and this is not the first time that senator Tim Scott has faced the black democratic opponent. I mean, I think what's unusual is having the black Republican opponent there to counter. The black democratic opponent, which while still unusual, is not unprecedented. And I think it's also important to remember that when Barack Obama ran for the U.S. Senate, his eventual Republican opponent was a black man, Alan keyes. So it certainly says something about descriptive representation. It reflects in the Deep South. The demographics of the state. So when you have state that's 30% African American, if the Republicans nominate a black person, it wouldn't be unusual for the Democrats to be doing that all along because they've got a deeper venture potential candidates from which to run. I think the lesson in this contest is that these two candidates are very different from one another. And so while they may share a common racial identity and may have some experiences that are similar to one another, their approach to addressing issues generally speaking and even issues related to race are very, very different. So we would have a conversation if Herschel Walker were to win in the African American community about
The Suburban Women Problem
"warnock" Discussed on The Suburban Women Problem
"But it was a slow role, but now, you know, with them inheriting a society where there are adults in the room that are basically saying, oh, mass shootings are just going to happen. We'll have to get over it. You've got a group of voters coming up that are saying we absolutely reject that. You know, where people are like, oh, well, climate change, it's whatever. The earth's getting hotter anyway. You got a group of voters that say no, we reject that because this is the earth that I am going to inherit and also I want to breathe clean air and I want to drink clean water and no, I do not want to be drowning because you guys decided that climate change wasn't enough to care about. It really truly does matter and so I wear multiple hats and I also wear my professor hat. And so a lot of these new voters are also students, you know, they're in college, they're learning about the world and they really engaged, but another thing they are is in final season. And here in Georgia, we had a Secretary of State that basically tried to strip them of the ability to vote on Saturdays. During final season, they can not just up and leave. I am saying this as a professor. They can not just up and go home to vote, especially if they're out of town and they're registered to vote back home because they plan on returning back home. So what Georgia did when they decided they would not only fight Saturday voting, but appeal it. Yeah. The fight is one thing. The fight is like, hey, we interpret the law different than you. Okay. Judge says, this is the interpretation of the law. If you appeal that, that now is just, I don't want you to vote on Saturday. And the students heard that and when we had weekend voting, the second largest block of voters during weekend voting Saturday and Sunday here in Georgia was actually voters 8 18 to 24. Amazing. So now we are seeing record numbers here in Georgia just for those who are listening, especially if you're in Georgia, the runoff is on December 6th, so next Tuesday, December 6th, and we are going to, if there's only one race on the ballot. That's it. Herschel Walker and Raphael Warnock, which there are so many contrast that I had to make right now. No one is a swing voter yet. Exactly. I'm sitting there going. Walker or Warnock, walker, or I just don't know on the one hand, I really like clean air and good schools and teaching our kids the things that they need to know in order to be successful and bodily autonomy and reproductive freedom and all the rest. On the other side, I really like his idea about sending the air to China. There's no one. There's no one sitting there making up their mind here. Senator reference person who has shown that they are willing to get the work done and work with whomever they need to work with to do it. And then there's like, football player, you can barely string with sentence together that makes up all these weird stories.
The Suburban Women Problem
"warnock" Discussed on The Suburban Women Problem
"As good as walker is bad. Like I would be really happy to vote for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich if it kept her walker out of the Senate. Right. It's reverend Raphael Warnock. Exactly. We gotta address the suburban women problem because it's real. Welcome to the suburban women problem. A podcast for red, wine, and blue. Hi everyone, and thanks for listening to the suburban women problem. I'm Jasmine Clark, and this holiday season we're doing the podcast a little differently. For the rest of the year, my co host and I will each take turns going deep on what we learned from the midterms, talking with experts and women who worked hard in their own communities. There are so many victories to celebrate and so many lessons to learn. So I'm kicking things off today with one of our favorite guests and political experts just Macintosh. Welcome back to the podcast. It's so nice to be here, Jasmine. We're still standing. I know. I know. Well, in Georgia, we don't really have much of a choice because our election is still happening. I know in some other states they're like still counting or something. But like we have a whole election happening right now in Georgia. And I definitely have some opinions about what we are seeing right now. But before we start talking about Georgia, 'cause I could talk about that pretty much all day. Sure. Let's talk a little bit about the midterms. So what do you think? What were the results that maybe surprised you the most? I think the result that surprised me the most was the one that happened to my own mental health. I feel better now than I have since 2015. Oh, wow. Well, because you gotta stack it up. Like we have 18, we have 20, and we now have 22 almost under our belt. And what we saw since the rise of Trump and maga and the extremism is that America rejects it. The vast majority of us reject it. We reject fascism in red states. We reject book bans in conservative neighborhoods. We kept fascists off of school boards. We managed to hang on to the Senate and make the Republican House majority so small that it's going to be damn near impossible for them to actually screw with our democratic process before 2024. We weren't supposed to do that. Like this was not supposed to happen.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"warnock" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"In his debate, because he did. He did fine. Herschel Walker all eyes were on Herschel Walker on this debate. And you know something, it was the only one, the sole Rafael Warnock Herschel Walker debate, and one of the most anticipated showdowns and Herschel Walker knocked it out of the park. You don't believe me? Listen to this. He told me Black Lives Matter. And if you think about it, senator and Atlanta Jordan has more black baby that is aborted than anything. So if Black Lives Matter, why are you not protecting those baby? And instead of the boarding those baby, why are you not baptizing those babies? Instead of aborting those babies, why aren't you baptizing those babies? Wow. You know, there's room for everybody to have a conversation about the complicated issue of abortion. And as a pro life American, I happen to believe that life begins in conception. And there are thorny issues around. And I don't want to debate abortion, but I'm telling you in the political context of this midterm election in 22 days, we got to be ready to have this conversation. We can 15 weeks, 12 weeks, 17 weeks, when is an unborn baby, a human being? We're all Americans, we get to have a say, we get to have a voice. Women, men, mothers, fathers, there is no debate over destroying a life in the womb. At 6, 7, 8, 9 months of pregnancy. But not a single Democrat that I know of is willing to condemn that as barbarism. Rafael Warnock didn't do it. You heard the interviewer in Atlanta the other night on that Georgia stage, he didn't do it. Pastor Warnock senator Warnock, do you favor any restriction at all from the government on the term of an abortion? And Raphael Warnock's answer spoke volumes. He didn't answer. Because the answer is no. The official Democrat position is there are to be no limits on abortion. And I can promise you 80, 90% of Americans find that ghastly, the Democrat position is in about the minority of about 7 or 8 percent. Well, Americans know what barbarism is. We know what evil is. We know what murder is. And taking the life of a baby in a late term abortion procedure is evil. And you know why the abortion issue is fizzling out for Democrats and why Republicans are getting so much momentum? 22 days before the midterms, because more and more Americans eyes are being opened. To the evil, horrific act. Of a late term abortion. Real simple. Karen's in Columbus, North Carolina..
Mike Gallagher Podcast
"warnock" Discussed on Mike Gallagher Podcast
"There's the money clip. This is Herschel Walker and the extraordinary takedown of pasture, Raphael Warnock, as radical as anybody we've ever seen in public office, this is from the debate, and it was a really strong performance. Don't buy anybody who tells you that Herschel Walker didn't do a good job. In his debate, because he did. He did fine. Herschel Walker all eyes were on Herschel Walker on this debate. And you know something, it was the only one, the sole Rafael Warnock Herschel Walker debate, and one of the most anticipated showdowns and Herschel Walker knocked it out of the park. You don't believe me? Listen to this. He told me Black Lives Matter. And if you think about it, senator and Atlanta Jordan has more black baby that is aborted than anything. So if Black Lives Matter, why are you not protecting those baby? And instead of the boarding those baby, why are you not baptizing those babies? Instead of aborting those babies, why aren't you baptizing those babies? Wow. You know, there's room for everybody to have a conversation about the complicated issue of abortion. And as a pro life American, I happen to believe that life begins in conception. And there are thorny issues around. And I don't want to debate abortion, but I'm telling you in the political context of this midterm election in 22 days, we got to be ready to have this conversation.
POLITICO Playbook Audio Briefing
"warnock" Discussed on POLITICO Playbook Audio Briefing
"Georgia actually has another big debate tonight Monday night between Republican governor Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams. What is the Abrams campaign looking like in Georgia? Yeah, I mean, the thing about Stacey Abrams and her, the way that she thinks about campaigning is kind of the way the whole organization fair fight action kind of works, right? It is about going out and talking to voters that people are ignoring, maybe. And figuring out ways to make sure they're registered to vote. And so it's very much the advocates and activists way to think about campaigning. And I think what she knows with her campaign definitely knows is that this race between Brian campus Stacey Abrams, whoever wins, it's going to be one at the margins. This is a state where the partly because of her work. And has now become a much closer race. For both Warnock and walker and her and Kemp. And so I was talking to someone that was really interesting and they said, you know, they love Stacey. There are democratic strategists and that she has done so much work to kind of shore up the black vote for Democrats in that state. It is one of the reasons that Joe Biden won. It is one of the reasons that black people in the runoffs in 2021 came out for Rafael Warnock and John ossoff and then gave Democrats two Senate seats. They weren't expecting. But she may not enjoy the fruits of that labor. And that's because Brian Kemp is doing really well. You look at you look at a lot of the polling. Yeah. Sorry to interrupt with the polling consistently shows Kemp with a lead over Abrams, a pretty substantial lead outside of the margin of error generally speaking. Yes. Sometimes ten points. Yeah, yeah. And it also generally speaking shows Warnock with a smaller but still a lead over crucial walker. So we get into this dynamic of possible Kemp, we're not voters and what that looks like. Because that seems like such an odd fit. Which is kind of wow to think about, right? Especially when we often put voters in kind of camps. And like you're going to vote all the way and strategist too, not just political reporter strategists. That they're going to, you know, you're going to vote for the top of the ticket and go all the way down. And that is not the case here. Part of that is because of Herschel Walker and his people not feeling like he is conservative enough. There are some Republicans when you talk Republican voters when you talk to them who feel like he doesn't really understand or even care about policy. And Raphael Warnock is a baptist preacher so the juxtaposition between Raphael Warnock and her co walker is very clear. And it's also very clear between Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams in a different way. Brian Kemp is not just a Republican, he is, you know, he is espoused a lot of the kind of far right wing things that you think about when he ran in 2018. Talking about rounding up undocumented immigrants and his own pickup truck in Atlanta, right? And so that is something that I think people both think about and hold in their heads as something, but they also remember Zach and have brought up to me. Democrats, how he basically did his job in 2020 and did not allow Donald Trump to twist his arm and overturn the wood of the Georgia voters in the election. And it's not that they're giving him a gift by putting him back into the governor's mansion. But that is something that they think about. Even some of the Democrats. And so that tells you that the Republicans are especially thinking about that. But the revealing moment, you know, it tells you something about this guy in office. In his benefit, suggests that this is a guy who is his own man. He wasn't going to let anyone push him around. And whether you like it or not, he's going to do what he said he's going to do, right? One of the things that politicians have a problem problems with is actually following through and voters, right? I'm going to do all this stuff and then they don't. Well, you know, Brian Kim, whether you like his policies or not, the man and this dude, what he was going to do, I think that does that kind of honesty. Still does go along with what is especially as we see politics get messier and messier. Well, speaking of doing what we said we were going to do, I have a couple other things that I wanted to touch on. You know, we have a couple more debates this week. We have in Ohio tonight. Tim Ryan versus JD Vance and Youngstown. This is their second and I believe their final debate, unlike the first debate last week, this one will not be televised statewide. In Ohio, we'll be televised locally. Yes, strange to have a statewide race that isn't telling us. But I say that as a native michigander. Also tonight, in Utah, senator Mike Lee, and independent candidate Evan mcmullin, face off in a debate that I believe starts at 8 p.m. eastern. And tomorrow is also I should have three weeks until election day. What is on your mind three weeks out? Oh, lord. I mean, all of the storylines that we've been following are about to come to head, right? How much does Donald Trump weigh on voters 9 times the Joe Biden way on voter's minds, you know, this has been a midterm election that's kind of been choose your own adventure. Where you have Democrats talking about abortion and democracy and some of the bills that they've been able to pass, and then you have Republicans talking about inflation and crime. And so we are going to see what wins out. And I think it is not going to be as it's not going to be as easy to decipher as we probably hope. And I also anticipate that it's going to, we're not going to know a lot of the races on the night of. And so, you know, buckle in for some of these for some of these seats. One other big thing that's coming up that I wanted to mention is you're getting married. And in a move that may surprise people who know just how work intensive this is, you're getting married in advance of election day. We really did not plan it. We were thinking we were mostly just, we loved the place in the venue. And then this was the only time we wanted to get married this year. So it literally is like, we're getting married. I have that Monday off and I'm back to work on Tuesday. That Tuesday is a week out from election day. Exactly, exactly. Exactly. I love chaos in my life. I love chaos. But I guess which is more stressful. Wedding planning or being a White House reporter and playbook co author. Oh my God, wedding planning by far. Planning by far because being a White House correspondent play with co author, it is like, I trained for that. I have experience in it. I never had no damn wedding before, so that is the much harder job. I have to say. Well, no, the demands on your time in particular with the wedding up now just a week in the future here. Thank you for spending the time with me. And with all of us in this morning, Eugene. Thanks for coming on. Be sure to subscribe to the playbook newsletter if you haven't. Our music is composed by the mysterious breakmaster senator, I'm Zach Stanton. Thanks for listening.
POLITICO Playbook Audio Briefing
"warnock" Discussed on POLITICO Playbook Audio Briefing
"How's it going? I'm playbook deputy editor Zack Stanton, having Monday. We're trying something a little different today to preview the week. I am joined by playbook co author Eugene Daniels for today's playbook daily briefing. Eugene. Welcome back to D.C.. You just visited Georgia, right? I did. I was there for 5 days. And while you were there, you were doing some reporting on the giant marquee Senate race that they have. The senator Raphael Warnock against Herschel Walker. One thing that in the process of your reporting that I thought was kind of interesting, a little behind the scenes peak here is that you went to ebenezer baptist church for Sunday services to do some reporting to talk to parishioners and I think just soak in the whole scene. And while you were there, the reverend Warnock noticed you and was trying to sort of play the refs a little bit, knowing you were in town for some reporting. Yes. Yeah, I did go to ebenezer baptist church. One I wanted to go because I hadn't seen anyone do that yet, really. Like anyone go to the church and kind of just get the scene of what it's like to watch this man who's both the senator Anna reverend. My grandfather was about this preacher. Yes, and so I felt very comfortable there. Maybe too comfortable 'cause I said I would stay closer than most reporters probably would sit in doing one of the, you know, and kind of being in the scene and kind of trying to sneak into the church. And so he's like walks over to me and he's talking about, you know, voting season is upon us. I know because these journalists that come to church on Sunday morning. They sometimes try to sit over in the cut. You know, you know how I know it. Election season, these reporters are in here trying to sneak and he looks at me and he goes, but brother, your Afro is too big. Good to see you, man. You can't hide over the cut. Not with that big old ass. I see you on TV. It was quite, it was quite the thing. It was really funny. My mom has been getting a kick out of it for days. I'm so glad to hear that. So one of the things that you wrote about in a piece that's set up this morning that I wanted to ask you about is there is some hand wringing among some black political strategists, both in Georgia and outside of Georgia about whether or not the Warnock campaign and democratic allies have sort of, as you said, flooded the state with ads. Whether they're doing enough to make the positive case for Raphael Warnock or whether they've focused too much on sort of hammering Herschel Walker. Yeah, one democratic pollster said to me that there could be a misstep in Democrats and Warnock trying to disqualify walker so much and not to re qualify what war not has actually done. And others agree with that. It wasn't just one person who was multiple strategists who are either working for Democrats in that state or are democratic strategists in that state themselves. And I think that's really interesting, right? Because one of the things that we have seen over the years is that politics has been and it has been for many years very negative, right? Knocked down your opponent. That has always been the case. But then you also have to introduce yourself to voters. Something that he said is that folks like Warnock, right? But they don't really have anything to point to that he's done. And I think that's probably the case for a lot of senators, right? Like, I don't think we're not very special in that. When you're a senator and you're one of 50 and then one of a hundred. It's hard to point out the kinds of things that you've done. And so they have to do that themselves. And something that didn't make it into the story. So this is breaking news for you guys here in the podcast. Something that the strategist said that the war not campaign and Warnock himself should be doing is talking about voting rights breathlessly. One voting rights is still a very big issue, especially for democratic voters in the state. It is very important to black voters in the state for obvious reasons. And he is in the pulpit. Not the exact same pool pit, but steps away from the same pulpit that Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at, right? And the church is actually a block away from Martin Luther King Jr.'s home. So it's like there's an easy connection between him as a senator and voting rights. Now the problem with that is that Democrats weren't able to pass the genre forever. So it doesn't have much to show for it. But it wasn't interesting concept. Why are you not talking about this thing where there's such an easy connection? Totally. And you know, it is interesting given the tone of this campaign and how fiercely it's being fought, that you have Warnock who occupies dual rules, where he is both reverend Raphael Warnock, as well as senator Rafael Warnock. And they require very different skill sets in some ways. There is certainly overlap, certainly his abilities as a speaker is comfort with people and I think the clarity with which he talks and thinks is very useful for a politician, but you can say certain things as a politician that you aren't going to say as a pastor. And you can talk about people and criticize them in ways as a candidate that you may be wouldn't as a pastor. So how do you see Warnock sort of inhabiting both of those worlds, the political and the spiritual at once and playing those roles sort of at the same time? Yeah, it was kind of weird because, you know, baptist preachers, politics is a part of their sermons at all times, right? So when he came out and started his sermon, he did talk about policy. He used healthcare as a way to describe people's relationship with God. You know, what the healthcare plan that God had for you. He talked about climate change and how important it was. But for the most part, it was like sprinkled within. And so he does a pretty good job of not talking about the race, right? Like he probably can't. And talk about talk about the race. He tells people to vote at the end of it. He tells he tells them, you know, I ain't telling you to vote for me. You can vote for whoever, but I don't know that anyone believe that. I think everyone understands they're not hoping that they vote for his opponent, but he spoke of compassion a lot in his sermon, which was really interesting. Considering all of the drama happening with walker, right? His campaign has been running negative ads as you do. Knocking walker on personal failings. Of which there is a list for walkers, not just this case. There's been scandal after scandal after scandal. And even on the debate stage on Friday, you know, he kind of he needled him a little bit. But it isn't as nasty as we used to politics being. But it still feels like this juxtaposition, right? That you're walking this fine line between not going too far, right? You can't, you can't really attack him, how probably most Democrats would on that stage because on Sunday you got to get in the pool pair, right? Right. You have to be able to go and tell the people that you are living and trying to live for God like life. And also doing your job. And so we haven't seen this before, right? This is not something, especially modern politics, where we've seen someone have to straddle this line. And the fact that it's a black baptist preacher preaching in the doctor Martin Luther King church in Atlanta, Georgia has found itself kind of being a swing state is really fascinating. So you mentioned the big debate between Warnock and walker that was on
The Larry Elder Show
"warnock" Discussed on The Larry Elder Show
"Know. Now having said that, let me, let me, let me talk about my evolution. And I got to tell you, I'm one that held on to listen all of these men running for office need to be virtuous, going back to what John Adams said, our constitution is wholly inadequate for an amoral people. So I look at that and I hear that and I'm like, man, we have to have virtuous men. Not saying that men couldn't have sin, not saying that man could be perfect. Men can't be perfect, but men that subscribe to virtue, right? Men that strive for virtue. We've got to have these type of people in office. And then you hear something like, you know, all of the things that Herschel Walker has done in the past and it's like, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. You know, and you start getting scared. And I can tell you that this is where I was with Trump in 2015 and I turned out to be absolutely wrong because the man's personal life, the life that he once lived, he had turned a way from and he began to live a different life and it showed in his ideological beliefs once he got into office. Now he doesn't deem himself already Trump did and deem himself and he doesn't now as a conservative, he deems himself as just a common sense, politician. Now, going back, going back and forth Herschel Walker, senator Raphael Warnock. We've got to know who these people are. All right, so here's the question. Here's the choice that you have before you choose. Maybe Herschel Walker paid for an abortion in 2009. I may surprise you to say this. Okay. I'm sorry. It doesn't change what I think about him in the senatorial race. One iota anymore. Because what's at stake is a total destruction of this country. You have an opportunity to choose in Georgia those of you that are choosing in this race. You have the opportunity to choose an imperfect man and Herschel Walker, or you have the opportunity to choose a man that claims to be a Christian pastor that is a freaking communist. I'm sorry, the choice is very easy. A man who may have paid for one abortion. I don't know. Maybe he's paid for attention. I don't know. It's wrong. It's sinful. I don't suspect he's doing it anymore. He's a Christian now. He's living out his, he's living out his faith and you have a man that claims to be a Christian that isn't living out his faith that is willing to go along with votes that continue with the genocide, not just well, the genocide of black Americans, but by killing black babies at the I think it's like the number is astoundingly like 20 million or something to that effect since roe V wade. So you have a man that may have had or may have paid for an abortion compared to a man that's willing to use your hard earned tax money to pay for thousands or tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands and perhaps millions in the future of dead babies by abortion. Choose, I'm sorry, this isn't hard. When we live in a perfect society when elections are perfect when we have maybe two decent candidates one that isn't a freaking communist, then you would be able to push Herschel Walker to the side and say, you know what, we can do better. We can't right now. I'm sorry, we can't. So I'm gonna go for this man. That may have paid for an abortion that undoubtedly had a history that was trouble. No doubt about it. No doubt about it. Whatsoever. But you have to choose. Am I gonna choose a candidate? At least politically is going to align with some of my value systems and make sure that we don't turn into a freaking socialist or communist country, or I'm gonna go with a man or am I gonna sit it out and allow a man that is a straight up in my opinion a communist that is going to continue to proliferate abortion across the country. Am I gonna am I going to allow him into office? I think the choices are pretty clear. I think their choice is still stark. I don't think it makes one iota of a difference of who you vote for. Herschel walkers who you vote for if you're in Georgia. It's really as simple as that. You even have black people, listen, the reason why this stuff is and you knew this stuff was gonna come out. For God's sakes, Herschel Walker wrote a book about some of this stuff. All right, so you knew a lot of this stuff was gonna come out. And I'm sorry, I'm sorry what his son, the feelings that his son has for his dad. That's not going to affect the United States of America. What's going to affect the entire country is Herschel Walker's voting record when he wins the Senate compared to Raphael Warnock's if he remains in the Senate. That's what's going to affect America. That's what's going to affect all of you. That is what's going to affect our national morality. And this is where this is where I stay. This is where I am. Going from this somewhat I have to admit naive you and that isn't to say that in the future, I do look for virtuous candidates. I do look for this. I mean, as good as we can get, squeaky clean, that fights for the things that I believe in. I mean, I believe in the Josh hawley's, I believe in the Ted Cruz's of the world, the Mike Lee's other world. These guys appear to be at least for the most part squeaky clean and they and they have our values. But also at the same time, I've got to recognize that their job, their job is to make sure going into this election cycle is that we restore our constitutional system in the United States of America. Rafael Warnock is not going to do that. Ask yourself, this is, I'm sorry, this is really simple for me now. And I wasn't there before because personal life mattered to me a lot. Why? Because I think it is a fair argument to say that character does matter. Of course it matters. A person without character, David harsanyi, of the federalist, wrote a fantastic column, the Herschel Walker abortion accusation changes nothing. He's absolutely right. He writes here character matters. Those who lie and cheat are also prone to corruption. This is true. This is the way that I think this is the way that you think, no doubt about it. No doubt about it. They're prone to corruption. And he says here very good point, and a dishonorable person you agree with can't always be trusted to follow through on their political promises. So you're asking yourself the question, okay, if Herschel walker has done this, will he behave like this if he gets into the Senate? Will he abandon us? Will he abandon the ideological beliefs, which he proclaims or which he professes? I don't think he will. I think he'll stand strong. But here's the other point that David harsanyi makes. He says in a dishonorable person, you agree with Ken always be trusted to follow through on their political promises. Okay, we went through, we went through that now. The problem is that the honorable politician you don't agree with can be. That's a great point. Meaning we can trust that Raphael Warnock based upon his own voting history is going to continue to be a Marxist that's in the Senate. Is going to continue to take this country down the drain. Where does Raphael Warnock stand on crime? Did he ever support Black Lives Matter did he ever support defund the police, did he do that? Is he responsible? In part for the rampant, the skyrocketing crime in the United States of America. Okay, he is. Where does Herschel Walker stand? Where does Raphael Warnock stand on the government spending that has put us in our economy in a downward spiral? Three consecutive quarters of economic decline, where people are struggling to put food on their kitchen table. People are struggling to pay for their mortgage and rent. Where does Raphael Warnock stand? Guys, this is a simple choice. I'm with you. I'm not saying this is easy in the sense that we as Christians as believers are going to have to get off of our high horse and realize what's at stake. Is communism worse than a man who has a troubled past who may have paid for an abortion. It's perhaps maybe the alleged killing of one baby worse than black genocide. That's the choice. I'm sorry, one baby, 20 million. It's a freaking easy choice. And the left does this and we. Oh, we're moral. We're perfect. I was there. That was me. Guys, I gotta tell you, when I first became a Christian, I struggled in my faith. I mean, there were all types of things that I was trying to figure out, including abortion. I didn't know where I stood. I remember, I remember, I took someone to get an abortion. I didn't agree with it, but I drove someone to an abortion clinic. I remember later asking, God, I just don't get it. I just don't get it. Why is abortion wrong? Why is it wrong? I mean, if a lady is in trouble, if I believed all the nonsense out there, I was new in the faith, and I can remember driving in the car alone. By myself, and I would always be listening to talk radio or something. But I turned it down and I just, I just asked, God, why is abortion wrong? And then he spoke to me clearly. He spoke to me clearly. Before you were born, I knew you. And I was like, oh my God. Oh my God. It hit me so hard. It hit me so hard. That's when my views changes an abortion, but I evolved on those views. I believe Herschel Walker has evolved on those on those views. David harsanyi writes this. As far as short of corruption or abuse or negligent homicide, you know, he's going to go for the candidate basically that has ideological decency. He said, I'd prefer the politicians to be principled and virtuous and bright and emphatic, but the ideological decency of a candidate's policies is far more important than all that. I didn't believe that a few years ago. And I still believe that character matters. There's no doubt about it. I will never deny that character does matter. But we have a system in which you can hold Herschel Walker accountable. Raphael Warnock doesn't believe in our system. So you have a man in Herschel Walker that is willing to be constrained or restrained by the confinements of the constitution, whereas you have another man that wants to abolish it. Where does Raphael Warnock stand on open borders? What about that? If he's for open borders is if he's voting for Chuck Schumer, I checked 98% of the time saying nothing about the open borders, consider what's happening at our open borders, whether it is the rape and the human trafficking human smuggling human smuggling of little children, little boys, little girls, where does he stand on that? Where does he stand on the death and the chaos of the Mexican cartels or creating at the southern border? Where does he stand on China and the fentanyl that's coming through our borders? If he stands for open borders, he stands for all of that. Does Herschel Walker stand for that? No, he does not. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I know this is, I know this is hard. I know that we want to get on our moral horse, but there is going to be no freaking America if we don't recognize the choice is communism or a constitutional America. We're at least we can continue to live out our beliefs to speak about our beliefs. Raphael Warnock doesn't believe in that. There's even questions as to whether or not he's a Christian. I mean, this is a guy. If you recall, first another thing, remember, Raphael Warnock, a couple of things that he said in the past. Nobody can serve God in the military. This according to Raphael Warnock. He also opposed voter ID laws before denying that he did. He worked with Stacey Abrams to oppose some of these very things. Guys, this is not hard. This is not hard. One of the things that he said, this was a couple of years ago. Actually, this was in 2021 last year. Reverend and pastor senator Raphael Warnock. He took to Twitter at the time hat tip daily wire and said, the meaning of Easter is more transcendent than the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Warnock said, and I quote, whether you are Christian or not through a commitment to helping others, we are able to save ourself. Huh? In fact, that's not right. We can't. That's not what we believe as Christians. It says here, Warnock's theology amounts to warmed over what's called, I believe it's plagiarism. It's a 5th century heresy that denied original sin and insisted upon the ability of humans to achieve perfection through free will without divine grace. Now, as Christians, we believe in the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, right? We believe that he conquered death. We believe that he redeemed us every single one of us. That he took our sins upon his back, and that's the only reason that we have Salvation. That's the only reason why we don't have to fear the wrath of God. Raphael Warnock does not believe that. I believe that this guy is a communist. That is my opinion. Let me just talk about quickly. Where this guy went to school and some of the beliefs systems that he has. It says here, this is from a family research council. This was a couple of years back. Warner has passed her to ebenezer baptist church in Atlanta for the past 15 years and previously passed her churches in New York, Maryland, and Maryland, ebenezer is the same church where you guys know Martin Luther King Jr.'s senior served as pastor, served as pastor for 40 years and where his son Martin Luther King Jr. served before leading the civil rights movement, Warnock is a graduate..
The Podcast On Podcasting
"warnock" Discussed on The Podcast On Podcasting
"Monetize your show. And today, I've got Vince Warnock, who is another podcaster, and we're going to talk about anything that he learned along the way because, in particular, because of like his accent. Wait, that's not what I meant. Because in particular, he's done this for 215 episodes. I need to do my clapping. Let's see if can you hear that, Vince? I can hear that. Nice. 215 episodes is insane. And I don't think our listener has the same level. And I'm going to start here though because you got to two 15 a because you're putting out more episodes than normal. B because you're consistent, but then I think about you've told me in the pre interview that you've got another podcast. So could you just tell us the amount of content that you're doing so that we can be amazed and also feel sorry for you? Yeah, I think you feel sorry it's probably the real one. To be honest, I originally launched with one episode a week when I first launched the podcast, I thought that was going to be absolutely plainly. But I soon discovered that I absolutely love interviewing people. And I love connecting with people all over the world. And honestly, get to meet some of the most amazing entrepreneurs banned down, like these people have gone on to become some Mobius Friends. So that's one episode turned into two episodes, and then I'm like, oh man, there's such a long waiting list. Everyone wants to be on my show. I guess three episodes a week. But then I'm entering into a whole new space as a side project in the moment around NFTs, not so much the investment glossy glossy kind of side of things, but more how does this technology, this blockchain technology, help us as entrepreneurs. And one of the things we realized is, well, we need to teach entrepreneurs how to be in this space.
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"warnock" Discussed on Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"The murder of George Floyd, we haven't seen anything done. Despite your very powerful speeches on the floor of the Senate, many of them. On voting rights, or even on criminal justice reform, you know, think about that. Voting rights, criminal justice reform, politicians need to center the people they were set to represent rather than their own interests. It is the reason why, even after watching 19 babies, slaughtered in a school, I'm hopeful that we are going to get something done this time. But why are we concerned? Why are we worried? It's because we've seen this terrible movie. This tragedy before, where we saw at the sandy hook. Our movement, after Columbine, 30 years, no movement, even to do the things that 80 to 90% of the country agrees with. Right. Still no movement in the Senate. If we don't get anything done this time, it will be a signal moment of moral failure. On our behalf and it was suggested that the politics is more important than the people. And I just refuse to accept that premise and I have a lot of respect and appreciation for my colleague Chris Murphy and I know that he and others are pushing and I'm doing everything I can. We've got to get something done here for the American people. Let me get you to reflect here because you were a sponsor of the legislation that made Juneteenth a national holiday last year. And along with July 4th, I'm wondering, what did the two holidays say? Not just about the arc of American history, but also about the values this country has stood for, but not always lived up to. I think of America as a freedom caravan. Freedom is not a destination. It's a journey. And we have been on this journey to try to push the country closer to its ideals. You point out rightly, there's July the fourth and then there's Juneteenth. Frederick Douglass, who was a great patriot, loved the country and an abolitionist, had a famous speech in the 1800s before the Emancipation proclamation entitled it is yours not mine. And he talked about the contradiction between the celebration of independence on July 4th and the fact that people were still in slavery in a free country. And so there's always been this tension and I see it played out in the American story and as I point out in my book a way out of no way, I am an embodiment of that complicated story. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else in the world. I love this country. And that's why I keep fighting for its ideals. I won a hard fought race, which made me George's first black senator, by the way, only the 11th black center and a whole history of the country. The next day I was feeling great, I was on all the morning shows. It was a hard fought race. I was on morning Joe, I was on CBS this morning. I knew I had a ride because I was on the view talking to Whoopi Goldberg. It was a great morning, it was the morning of January 6th. And so by lunchtime, we could see that something was unfolding in the capital and by the end of the day, we had all witnessed the most violent attack on our capital since the war of 1812, anti semitic and racist and xenophobic science, traffic through our capital, and so on January 5th, think about that. Georgia, a former state of the confederacy, sends a powerful message to the nation, regardless of your politics or political party. It's in an African American and a Jew over against the ugly side of our history from the south to the United States January 5th. January 6th, violent assault on the capitol animated by the big lie, the premise that really some people's voices and certain people's votes ought not count. You don't get to determine the direction of the country. And so here's where we really live. We live somewhere between January 5th and January 6th. Between the forces that would divide us or short term political gains because people who have no vision engage in division and the forces that want to push us closer towards our ideals. I choose January 5th. Time and time again, even when I'm disappointed, I choose the U.S.. I choose us people sooner out of many one. Senator reverend Warnock, we're going to let in the control room note right now. We're going to go a little bit over because I had to get you on two things. One, the January 6 hearings are ongoing. Have you learned anything? That has surprised you. And do you think you have you seen enough evidence that Donald Trump should be charged with a crime? Well, I'm going to let the committee do its work and I think what I've learned again what all of us ought to be learning is that democracy is not a noun it's a verb and that it is the most precious thing we have and we have to fight for it. We have to fight for it over and over again. And. What this has done for me is deep in my resolve. To remain vigilant to remain focused, to register as many people as I can, to vote, make sure everybody, every eligible voice is heard in our democracy. That's what's at stake. All right, so the number one thing, the best thing I learned about you in reading a way out of no way in comes on page 29. You write, we children grew up playing a game called the dozens. During which participants try to outwit one another with the best insult. And we played about it played it about as much as we played as much as we prayed, everybody got teased, mercilessly. So I learned to dish it out as well as I could take it. And this is the part that I love. And even became somewhat of a master of the yo mama jokes. You gotta get, you gotta give me one. You gotta give me one. I'm not gonna do that, Jonathan. I need the one. It would take a little while for me to hey. You and I will have to sidebar, but about some of that. I'm gonna hold you to that. Senator reverend Raphael Warnock of Georgia author of a way out of no way a memoir of truth transformation and the new American story. Thank you so much for coming to capehart on Washington Post live. Great to be with you. Thank you..
Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"warnock" Discussed on Cape Up with Jonathan Capehart
"Senator reverend Raphael Warnock. Welcome to capehart in Washington Post live. Great to be with you. Thank you so much, brother. Great to be with you as well. I'm glad I wore the light blue tie because I usually wear a tie like yours. It would have been twins. I've been all right with me, Jonathan. All right, so let's get into your into your book. Your book opens with a chapter entitled boys like us, and you write about two searing moments. I'll start with the one that involves you. You, your sister, and other passengers kids were frisked after being suspected of shoplifting. And you write, quote, it was, quote, my first brush with the myriad ways in which black people experience hurtful and demeaning racial stereotyping and discrimination in everyday life. Talk about how that incident shaped you. Well, thank you so much again, it's great to be here with you and, you know, that Sunday afternoon we were doing church kids, particularly PKs, breachers kids, do we had a little break in between services. You stay in church all day long. And we were in the grocery store, my sister and I and some friends who were also PKs and I was about 12 or 13 years old. I had a habit then a kind of walking around with my hands in my pocket. Normal kind of adolescent awkwardness. And a man appeared out of nowhere and said, come walk, come go with me. He was dressed in army fatigues. And my sister being taught to obey authority. He started walking. I said, wait, wait a minute. Who are you? And he said, the police, I said, were you by showing me a badge? And he flashed the baths. To make a long story short, they marched us through the store up the stairs where they'd been watching us in an observation mirrored observation booth and, you know, we were all and of course they found nothing because we hadn't taken anything. We were just good kids in between two worst services and that was my experience. My first experience with the kind of humiliation and every day aggressions that people experience. The other more painful moment came later later in life and that involved their rest of your older brother, a police officer, what happened quickly and how did that impact your life's work? Well, what I try to do in that first chapter, Jonathan, the book away out of no way, which by the way, is a phrase that comes out of the church, right? You're not in a church for a long, a black church. And when we see the black church, let me not assume that people know I want you to know that we have never, ever. Meant anything racial exclusive about that. We're talking about the church literally born protesting racism. Protesting discrimination and saying that we have of one blood God has made all nations to dwell upon the face of the earth. So does the church born really affirming our humanity? And the ways in which all of us are part of the human family. But in that first chapter, I juxtapose my story with the story of my own brother, come from a large family. I'm number 11 out of 12 on the first college graduate and I have an older brother who went to prison for nonviolent drug related fantasy was a police officer at the time and he committed serious crimes for which he has expressed deep remorse and I think he's rehabilitated. But part of what you see in that chapter is, you know, with he and I sharing the same book bibs in the same room growing up in public housing. I'm a United States senator today, but it's not lost on me. The thin line between how my life showed turned out and how his turned out. And it's given me a sense of compassion account of ten to heart as a pastor. And I think it informs the way in which I engage issues as a legislator. Right, and as you write in the book, I mean, you worked very hard after your brother's arrest. You worked very hard to make sure he was supported that the justice system treated him fairly as it's supposed to do. In our in our judicial system and you talk about the care and love that you had for your brother well, at the same time, put zeroing in on and focusing on the disparities in our criminal justice system and when your brother was sentenced to life, you did I put my notes. You write life, nobody had died. Nobody had gotten physically hurt. Nobody even got high, yet my brother then a 33 year old man, an army veteran with no prior criminal history was sent to prison for the rest of his life without the possibility of her role. I want to go back to something because you anticipated a question I was going to ask. And that is about the title of the book. A way out of no way, which was not unfamiliar to me because I heard it said by the late great congressman John Lewis, a lot, but for a lot of people who don't know specifically what a way out of no way means talk about that and why that phrase is so resonant for you. Yeah. It's a very common phrase and the black church experience. And again, I'm talking about the Turks that slaves created. And it's been passed on from generation to generation. It is a phrase born of suffering. Of travail and oppression, and yet keeping the faith in the midst of that struggle. Never giving in to hate, never giving in to the kind of bitterness that destroys you, but putting one foot in front of the other. Martin Luther King Jr. used to say that faith is taking the first step when you can't see the full stairwell. And you're not in a black church long before you hear either the preacher or somebody in the choir or some mother in the church giving a testimony as she talks about how God has walked with her through life's valleys and difficult spaces. She says, you know, the lord makes her way, okay? I mix her way. Out of no way. It's a phrase also to acknowledge the importance of human agency. The truth, the unspoken part of that is that as we make our way, God makes a way out of no way. We do the work and we partner with God to make our lives better and I think to make the lives of other people better and it's a phrase by which I've tried to guide my own life in my own journey. Can you talk a little bit about the importance of Congress and Louis to you? Not just because he was a civil rights icon, but you were his pastor. Right. Yeah, John Lewis was a giant of a man. I'm deeply honored to have served as this pastor. There he is. We're standing there and standing there also,.
WJR 760
"warnock" Discussed on WJR 760
"Warnock. The voter fraud case against the New Georgia project is one of 35 being sent the prosecutors for possible criminal prosecution, according to Georgia Secretary State Brad Rapids, Burger. Knew George project is accused of submitting over 1200 voter registration applications after a 10 Day deadline expired for special election held in March. 2019. The group says Warnock was its chairman of the board at the time he stepped down over a year ago. Ramparts, Berger says other cases evolving last year's general election would not have changed the outcome. Tom Angotti. Fox NEWS You'll Cheryl Mori has resigned as the president of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee following comments implying that women talk too much. Committee is expected to pick a successor quickly as it struggles over exactly how Tokyo could hold the Olympic Games in just over five months from now in the midst of the Corona virus pandemic. President Biden this week, holding his first conversation with China's President XI president's Biden and she sing Ping have known each other for many years. How that relationship holds up his China becomes more aggressive remains to be seen. The two leaders spoke for the first time since President Biden took office on the agenda were a range of difficult topics. The continued crackdown in Hong Kong human rights abuses towards weaker Muslims Beijing's aggressive actions in the Indo Pacific region, including towards Taiwan as well as China's unfair economic practices. Chinese media Responded by saying to quit doing what? We hope that the U. S issue of caution. 20. China is also being accused of cracking down on the international press announcing that the BBC News will no longer be able to air in China due to a content violation boxes budget for the whole in London, and I'm Jack Keller here. This is.