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March 27, 2025 - Stew Peters Show
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Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: NPR’s Katherine Maher GRILLED by Congress
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I don't know where to begin today.
I know where we're going to go.
Towards the end of the show, I want to ask about this Liberation Day.
Have you heard about Liberation Day?
This is April 2nd, so I guess it'll be Wednesday of next week.
Donald Trump's going to have a press conference.
They keep talking about this Liberation Day.
What does it actually mean?
What does it entail?
Does it have to do with tariffs?
It certainly has to do with economics.
It certainly has to do with, just from what I can figure out, bringing more money back into the country.
Not sure what exactly that looks like.
Obviously, I think it has something to do with tariffs.
We'll talk about that.
Also, a fascinating day yesterday at the Georgia State House.
Running an abolitionist bill, again, the idea to totally, well, actually, it's not even really, that's not even accurate.
It was more so like an equal protection bill that would essentially mean that like a life in the womb has equal protection, meaning if you kill a baby, then it's the same as killing,
If you kill an unborn child, same as killing somebody outside the womb, meaning it would criminalize is what it would do, criminalize abortion, and it would give babies, it would give, you know, life begins at conception or fertilization, it would give those human beings the same.
And so it was fascinating.
Pastor Jeff Durbin from Arizona, from an organization, I think End Abortion Now, traveled to the Georgia State House.
to testify for this bill and what happened was just a little unexpected but it was controversial.
We'll talk about that.
But first let's get to it.
NPR NPR, we've got Catherine Marr on the hill yesterday, where she was absolutely grilled.
Of course, this is the same Catherine Marr who gave a pretty famous talk about how we need to get away from the truth, that trying to pursue the truth is actually hurting us.
It's inhibiting us trying to get other things done.
It literally sounds like something the devil himself would say, and we may not be too far off there.
We've got a few of these clips from Capitol Hill that I want to get to from yesterday.
Let's go ahead and throw the first one up on the screen.
Elon Musk paying attention to the show that was on Capitol Hill.
Here is Congressman William Timmons tweeting, NPR's Catherine Maher admits it's concerning that 100% of her editorial board, 87 members are registered Democrats with zero Republicans.
Yeah, I mean, look, everybody's known this for a very long time.
I mean, it's no secret, right, that NPR, PBS, these are state-run propaganda outlets.
They are.
But, I mean, in terms of, like, they're overtly political, they're overtly Democrat, they're overtly leftist.
I guess, I mean, and this is why people are looking at it, right, because there is technically a new administration, and so they're the state now.
But people have been wanting to defund or get rid of NPR for a long time.
Now remember, Elon Musk paying attention to this because when he took over Twitter, he labeled them as state-sponsored media.
Very similar to the way that Dorsey and those people, they were labeling accounts like Russia Today or RT as state-sponsored media.
Well, right back at you, we're going to let the public know, hey, this is state-sponsored media.
And they took great offense at that.
Back when that happened.
So just a little context there, but let's give a listen.
You're a rabid progressive.
Do you not think it's a problem that your political leanings make it seem to the American people that you're not biased and you're not doing your job?
Because you agree that your job is to have journalistic integrity, right?
Absolutely, but there is a strong firewall between the newsroom and anything that I do.
Let's talk about the newsroom.
You have 87 registered Democrats, not a single Republican in your editor boards.
I mean, how does that work to give us the perception that you're doing your job of actually delivering unbiased information?
I would agree with you that that number is a concern if it is accurate.
I do believe that we need to have journalists who represent the full breadth of the American society so that we can report well for all Americans.
I think that you are failing.
I realize you've only been there for a year, but I just really think that while it is a small portion of your budget, you very much should expect to restructure your revenue streams because I don't think that NPR is necessarily worth saving.
So this is in context of Doge.
Yeah, NPR isn't worth saving.
We shouldn't be spending money on it.
It's ridiculous.
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Okay, so we also had another one.
Representative Brandon Gill took his turn.
So, taking on Catherine Marr.
Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?
I believe that I tweeted that, and as I've said earlier, I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the last half decade.
It has evolved.
Why did you tweet that?
I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't be able to say.
Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder and white democracy?
I don't believe that, sir.
You tweeted that in reference to a book you were reading at the time, apparently, The Case for Reparations.
I don't think I've ever read that book, sir.
You tweeted about it.
You said you took a day off to fully read The Case for Reparations.
You put that on Twitter in January of 2020.
Apologies, I don't recall that I did.
No doubt that your tweet there is correct, but I don't recall that.
Okay. Do you believe that white people inherently feel superior to other races?
I do not.
You tweeted something to that effect.
You said, I grew up feeling superior.
How white of me?
Why did you tweet that?
I think I was probably reflecting on what it was to grow up in an environment where I had lots of advantages.
It sounds like you're saying that white people feel superior.
I don't believe that anybody feels that way, sir.
I was just reflecting on my own experiences.
Do you think the white people should pay reparations?
I have never said that, sir.
Yes, you did.
You said it in January of 2020.
You tweeted, yes, the North, yes, all of us, yes, America, yes, our original collective sin and unpaid debt, yes, reparations, yes, on this day.
I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
What kind of reparations was it a reference to?
I think it was just a reference to the idea that we all owe Much to the people who came before us.
That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.
Okay, how much reparations have you personally paid?
Sir, I don't believe that I've ever paid reparations.
Okay, just for everybody else.
I'm not asking anyone to pay reparations.
Seems to be what you're suggesting.
Do you believe that looting is morally wrong?
I believe that looting is illegal, and I refer to it as counterproductive.
I think it should be prosecuted.
Do you believe it's morally wrong, though?
Of course.
Of course.
Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive?
It's a very different way to describe it.
It is both morally wrong and counterproductive, as well as being illegal.
You tweeted, it's hard to be mad about protests in reference to the BLM protests not prioritizing the private property of a system of oppression.
You didn't condemn the looting.
You said that it was counterproductive.
NPR also promoted a book called in defense of looting.
Do you think that that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars?
I'm unfamiliar with that book, sir.
And I don't believe that was at my time at NPR.
It went on and on and on like this for a very long time.
Eventually, it gets to Congressman Tim Burchett, Gunther Eagleman on X, saying Tim Burchett just dismantled this lady's entire...
I like how there is just kind of a cavalier attitude here.
She could very well say, am I a joke to you?
Because that's essentially...
I mean, it's funny.
How she's presenting herself, she obviously knows that she's a radical leftist, and she's got to be here anyway to testify before this Doge subcommittee and the taxpayer funding of NPR and PBS.
I mean, she certainly knows what she's in for, but the whole thing is amusing, I have to say.
Look, and I know that's what Congress is.
It's a big show, but I would be lying if I...
Told you that I didn't find it entertaining, even though most of it is just theater with no actual action.
But we'll see.
Are we finally going to defund this taxpayer-funded propaganda?
And did you say there's no bias on NPR?
That is not a bias statement, ma'am.
Both parties wrapped themselves around this song.
Every time there's a national conflict, Lee Greenwood...
Sings it, and he does a beautiful job, but you say there is no bias in NPR.
That is that individual's opinion, and she, of course, is entitled to it, but that is not the position of NPR.
Ma'am, you said in your opening statement that you were going to be transformative, and I believe you failed to do that.
Let me ask you, why did you call President Trump a fascist and a deranged racist sociopath in 2020?
Congressman, I appreciate the opportunity to address this.
I regret those tweets.
I would not tweet them again today.
They represented a time where I was reflecting on something that I believe that the president had said rather than who he is.
I don't presume that anyone is a racist.
You don't believe anyone is a racist?
I don't start by presuming anyone is a racist, sir.
Okay. Has NPR or PBS ever conducted an internal review to assess whether...
Congressman, what we look at is the distribution of people who listen to our work, and we can tell you, and I'm proud to tell you, that for our digital podcasts and our website...
the distribution of Americans who come to NPR does reflect the political distribution of the nation.
In fact, the distribution on our website's 33% of folks who come I don't believe that at all, sir. Okay.
Ma'am?
We obviously are constantly looking at the voices that we bring forward.
We take to heart our commitment to bringing forward perspectives from across the country.
Our programming comes from our local stations.
And I mentioned in my opening comment the series that we did out of Arkansas, Southern Storytellers.
That's just one little example.
Ten percent of our schedule is news.
The rest of it is either children's programming or programming based on history.
to give us all a collective expression and we're constantly...
Let's not forget Sesame Street which has increasingly gotten more and more and more woke.
Didn't Sesame Street at one time, didn't Bert and Ernie push their beds together?
It was always this innuendo that Bert and Ernie were gay and I'm pretty sure there was this episode where they, yay, let's push our twin beds together.
We all knew what that meant.
Propagandizing children to the rainbow, woke, LGBTQRSTLNE.
Would you like to buy a vowel?
Sex religion.
Ensure that we're bringing forward a diversity of viewpoints and perspectives and experiences that really do make up the fabric of this country.
NPR senior editor Leonard has been mentioned before, but he was quoted as saying, an open-minded spirit.
No longer exists within NPR, and now, predictably, we don't have an audience that reflects America.
Yet you stated that the audience does reflect America.
He was suspended without pay for five days for saying this.
Of course, he eventually resigned in April 2024.
You've also stated that federal funding is essential for NPR to operate, but also claim only 1% of your funding comes from the federal government.
Which is it?
Mr. Berliner was suspended for the outside work policy, not for what he said, sir.
In terms of federal funding, the federal funding...
Let's actually listen to what this lady said.
This was a very viral video.
I think it was viral sometime last year.
I'm not exactly sure when she said it, but she was giving kind of like a TED Talk.
I don't think it was specifically a TED Talk, but something along those lines, you know.
And this is when she went viral last year.
People started looking into Catherine Marr.
Listen to this.
But one of the most significant differences, critical for moving from polarization to productivity, is that the Wikipedians who write these articles aren't actually focused on finding the truth.
They're working for something that's a little bit more attainable, which is the best of what we can know right now.
And after seven years there, I actually believe that they're onto something.
That for our most tricky disagreements, seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth.
Isn't necessarily the best place to start.
In fact, I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction that is preventing us from finding consensus and getting important things done.
I think our reverence for truth is becoming a distraction.
I mean, talk about going to the longhouse.
Talk about being taken to the longhouse.
That's what this is.
But it's even worse than that.
I mean, that's something that the devil himself would say.
Seeking the truth and seeking to convince others of the truth isn't necessarily the best place to start.
It's not good.
In fact, I think our reverence for the truth might have become a bit of a distraction.
The words here, the reverence for truth?
Has become a distraction.
Wow. I mean, it's like totally a dystopian concept.
Something right out of 1984.
We don't need to focus on the truth.
It is preventing us from finding consensus.
And the reverence for the truth prevents us from finding a consensus.
It's totally like evil.
It's evil.
It's inverted.
It's insane.
And yet, if we say these wicked, evil things in calm tones, in female voices, they're somehow thought of and embraced as legitimate.
I mean, it's absolutely nuts.
And yeah, so yeah, that's kind of why it was a little satisfying.
I'm not going to lie.
It's satisfying to see her have to be marched in front of the Capitol.
I have to give a testimony and basically defend the taxpayer-funded existence of NPR and PBS and all this stuff.
Ridiculous. Oh, yeah.
So there's also a connection here.
So the last two days, you know, we've been talking about the Signal Gate, the Signal scandal, this app, Signal, okay?
It's obviously not secure.
The allegations, you know, it was installed on people's computers.
People saying, look, this is something that the government created.
The government, we all know, thanks to Edward Snowden, has a backdoor to every new piece of software that's available to you.
VPNs are actually a joke.
It's all obvious that everything you type, even when you backspace, everything is being recorded all the time.
The data centers, all of that stuff is real.
It's proven.
Whistleblowers like William Binney, You know, you could say this program right now being broadcast on ex-American News, but also it's being broadcast to an NSA server near you, right?
Especially if you live in Utah.
So, anyway, Signal, Catherine Marr, the leftist NPR CEO that we just heard, she's currently the chair of the board of Signal.
So this is just not, I mean, this is a woman who's connected.
And I think it's very obvious now that the United States government doesn't need to be using Signal in any way, shape, or form because of the prionies of the government.
We told you yesterday about Tucker Carlson saying that when he was planning a trip to interview Vladimir Putin that the NSA spied on him and they knew he was planning the trip.
So here is the Signal Foundation.
There you see the Signal Technology Foundation.
This is the app many of us have on our phone, many of us use.
I've even had congressmen in the past feel more secure.
My point is, a lot of people communicate on Signal because of the encryption and they feel like it's a safer platform.
I think at this point, we all know that's not true.
And again, that's not true for anything.
That's not true for anything that you have access to, in my opinion.
But if you see here, if we scroll down here, the people, the Signal Foundation Board of Directors, Catherine Marr, right there.
She is on the board.
It's just funny how everybody's in bed with one another.
Everybody's connected.
And the media and Signal, and now I just think what's apparent is the Intel oligarch's control of the Signal platform.
Whether it was an accident that Jeffrey Goldberg was at it or not, and there's still people that have honest questions about that, by the way.
Here's Grace Chong.
Steve Bannon saying, look, everyone's focused on Alex Wong.
Laura Loomer broke this story, I believe, yesterday.
People are focusing on Alex Wong being the guy that added Jeffrey Goldberg, potentially.
Steve Bannon reminding everybody this is not just a staffer.
It's not just somebody on Mike Waltz's staff.
This is the principal deputy national security advisor, the number two person behind Mike Waltz.
Alex Wong.
Mike Walton, his wife, former U.S. attorney, prosecuted J6 cases.
All of this is now coming out and people are saying, hey, look, maybe this guy is a leaker, right?
That's what people are starting to say.
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Okay, so I told you that we had an interesting situation at the Georgia Statehouse.
And boy, boy did we ever.
Yesterday, Jeff Durbin testified before the Georgia legislature, or a committee, if you will.
And some people didn't like it.
They weren't a fan of it.
Let's actually listen to what happened.
Again, this is a bill.
Well, let's just let Jeff Durbin explain his bill.
As he testified yesterday before a Georgia committee.
Is Jeff Durbin here?
Come on up.
sir Go ahead.
Thank you, Honorable Representative.
My name is Pastor Jeff Durbin with End Abortion Now.
It's an honor to speak to you today.
Where are you from?
Oh, Arizona.
Phoenix, Arizona.
Very simply, brothers and sisters, representatives, this bill says what is unassailable.
What's in the womb is human from fertilization.
That is a biblical fact, an unassailable biological fact.
And all this bill does is it says what we say we believe as people who believe in life at fertilization, that what's in the womb deserves equal protection.
This bill simply says this.
Every human being in Georgia from the moment of fertilization deserves to be equally protected.
That's the simplicity of the bill.
The problem we're seeing right now is the same problem we've seen in history.
We did this in the past to our black brothers and sisters.
We drew a circle around one group of people and said that, I know it's technically human.
But it's not really a human.
It's a black person.
And so we can oppress them.
So you think about...
Stop for a second.
The Dred Scott decision.
I have made this argument many, many times.
As a matter of fact, I gave it to a classroom one time of high schoolers.
And it just...
Connecting the slavery issue with abortion.
It was something that short-circuited some people's minds, especially people who have already been catechized into this leftist ideology, into the idea of a woman's right to choose.
But if you get to, obviously, the biological fact of this is a human being, and you actually compare it to slavery, and actually it's way worse than slavery in that regard, saying we're going to decide who are people and who are not people, That is exactly what happened to justify slavery.
There's no getting around that.
That is a truth.
But when you make that analogy, it has a triggering effect on some, as we'll see here later.
Especially if you are a, I don't know, Democrat black woman who has maybe never heard this before, that they are in fact hypocrites and are on the side of Modern-day slavery,
which is why the abolition movement in this country is calling themselves abolitionists, the new abolitionists, not the abolitionists of William Wilberforce in England trying to fight the slave trade there, not the abolitionists of the Civil War time.
No, the new abolitionists are people who want to end abortion entirely.
And so, anyway, the testimony goes on.
Listen. And it wasn't until abolitionists stood up, Christians stood up and said, equal protection for my black brothers and sisters.
We abolished slavery in the same way we need to abolish abortion.
Provide equal protection for every human being.
God says in his word, cease to do evil, learn to do good, seek justice, correct oppression, bring justice to the fatherless.
I want to call you to do your duty before God.
We're all going to answer to Christ one day for how we acted and responded on this very day.
And I'm going to call you to be consistent with what you know to be true.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Be careful on your way back to Arizona.
Yes. Yes.
Hold on just a second.
Oh, thank you.
Representative Neal.
Yes, while I do appreciate people that are coming from out of state to support or be against this measure, Prioritize the hard-working Georgians.
I'm not sure if they outlined on the notes where they came from.
And then also, too, is there a way that we can ensure we strike a balance so we don't run through all the time with all the people against if we can get some support or just go back and forth as well, just for balance.
Well, let's see who's in here from Georgia.
All right.
Okay. I'll tell you what.
You got a question for the witness?
Okay. Stay right there, brother.
Yes, sir.
Go ahead.
Hi. Good.
I'm Esther Panich, and you're not from here, so I'll assume you don't know, but I'm the only Jewish representative in the state of Georgia.
Judaism posits that the life of the mother is more important than the life of an unborn.
Are you telling me that I don't have a right to my religious liberty?
Well, no, everyone would appeal to an ultimate authority over all of us.
And one of the things that I respect and admire about Judaism is that we share the same scriptures, the Torah, the Talmud, and all the prophets.
He corrected himself.
He corrected himself.
He said the Talmud at first, and then he said, no, I'm sorry, nothing.
Let's just take that again.
All of us.
And one of the things that I respect and admire about Judaism is that we share the same scriptures, the Torah, the Talmud.
Not the Talmud, sorry, the Torah and the Law of the Prophets.
Scripture does teach, without question, that from fertilization all human life begins and that we are uniquely made by God, created in the wombs of our mothers.
And known by God.
And so with that, Judaism, as well as Christianity, would teach that every human being must be protected and given equal justice.
One of the laws of Moses that's repeated over and over is no partiality.
We treat everybody equally.
And the point that I was making, Representative, and I appreciate you asking the question, was the same point that can be used in terms of our Jewish brothers and sisters, where there was a time in history where there was a class of people.
That drew a circle around themselves, the Germans, the SS, and said that we can oppress our Jewish brothers and sisters, that we can treat them with abuse, we can kill them.
My point, Representative, was that we've had this problem in history many times over where a class of human beings says to another class of human beings, we can oppress you, we can kill you, we can murder you.
And what we're saying with this bill is that every human being is made in God's image and deserves to be equally protected.
Sure. Everyone valued.
Women, men, children.
I understand that.
But Judaism does not posit that life begins at fertilization.
It says that it's like water until 40 days.
And the way you know this is look at Israel.
Abortion is readily available and it's free.
So please don't misstate what my religion tells me is my duty, if I am at risk, if my life is at risk, it may not only be suggested of me to have an abortion, but required of me to have an abortion.
So she's saying she has, under Judaism, her version is that she's got the right to abortion.
In Israel, it's free.
And she's saying that that's why this is somehow a violation of my religion.
Now notice, she's talking about this 40 days thing.
That's not from the Bible, okay?
That's from the Talmud.
She's citing the Talmud, which is, again, also, if you go back to his correction there, that's what Christians don't share.
Clearly don't share with modern-day Jews.
Let's keep listening.
Interesting. Interesting situation going on here.
A huge...
I mean, this is just like...
What's being exposed here is a chasm of difference between the Christian at the end of the table and this representative who is Jewish.
As a life in being, my life takes priority over something that is not...
has not been born yet.
So how do I exercise my religious liberty under your bill?
Thank you for the question, Representative, but the answer to two of those main questions, the first one is that when I was referring to Judaism, The Jewish religion is based upon the Old Testament scriptures, the law and the prophets.
I am well aware.
There's no question that the view that came later you're describing is not in the law and the prophets.
It's later Jewish tradition.
That's just the point I want to make to that.
She didn't like that.
The view you're describing is not in the law and in the prophets.
It's a later tradition that you have added to, that you have invented.
This religious right to an abortion?
Fascinating. Again, Grand Canyon chasm between this Christian pastor and how the Bible informs what he believes is sin versus what this Jewish state representative believes.
The next point is that this particular bill says nothing towards the case that you're bringing up where your life is in danger.
This bill is about equal protection for all human beings in the womb.
It's about the preservation of life.
If your life were in danger because of a pregnancy in very rare instances, very infinitesimally...
I'm not just talking about physically.
Emotionally, psychologically, those are exceptions which allow a Jewish woman to have an abortion if they need one.
So she's now saying that emotionally, psychologically, and mentally...
She's saying, under the modern-day Jewish religion, that's another reason why you have to have an abortion, or you should be allowed to, and that this bill, again, she's arguing that this bill, to give equal protection to the unborn, would violate her religious freedom.
I may respond to that.
That's a very good point.
We wouldn't, in our current justice system, allow a woman who murders her six-year-old child by drowning him in the bathtub to get away with the argument, I was emotionally struggling, I didn't feel like I could care for this baby.
No, that's not the same thing.
I'm talking about things, an unborn child compared to...
Let me finish my question, please.
An unborn child versus a life in being.
Which would be the mother.
So under your bill, could I exercise my religious liberty if I felt a long consultation with my rabbi and my doctor that I needed an abortion for survival, whether that's physical survival or mental survival?
And the point I was making to you is that the human being in the womb...
This is something you can answer with a yes or no.
Under my hypothetical...
And your bill, could I exercise my religious liberty?
We don't believe that anybody has the right to, with malice of forethought, take the life of another human being in an unjustified manner.
So, equal protection for all humans means that no, nobody can say to another human being, I'm going to take your life with malice of forethought in an unjustified manner.
Okay, so your answer is no.
I can't, if I believe that I...
You can't kill your baby, no.
Okay. So...
Jews and other religions who don't believe in your version of when life starts are screwed under your bill, right?
Well, all biological science teaches that life begins at fertilization.
That's an unassailable, indisputable fact.
It's incontrovertible.
It's a biological fact.
But I appreciate the questions.
For the sake of...
I'm not even on.
I think...
I have no problem disagreeing with someone until they try to put their values on me.
I don't think there's going to be consensus.
I agree.
So if you don't mind, we'll move on.
Thank you for the question, Representative.
Number five.
Representative. All right, all right.
Now, that was quite...
It really just speaks for itself.
But now we're going to get back to the triggering of comparing abortion to slavery, to chattel slavery.
So is abortion, and he makes this point perfectly, right?
Dred Scott, you know, the color of your skin, you're black, so you don't get rights under the Constitution.
We're doing the same thing, just men, sinful, fallen men drawing arbitrary lines in the sand about what is a life and when it actually has rights and equal protection under our laws.
This black state representative is not a fan of making that comparison because it obviously would expose her to be a hypocrite.
So let's take a listen.
Black women and trying to exterminate the black race.
Do you identify as being black or African-American descent?
Do I?
Yes. Well, I think it's pretty obvious that I share a different count of melanin.
Okay. So that being said, I am African-American, and so I respectfully disagree with your assessment and using...
I appreciate that.
Which part do you disagree with?
So I can maybe respond.
You don't agree that slavery happened in America, that white people oppress black people?
My point, Representative, thank you for the question, was that in history we have drawn circles around classes of people.
White people did it to, unfortunately and abominably, to your ancestors.
White people drew a circle around themselves and said, We will be the humans that will have the rights and equal protection, but we will draw a smaller circle around our black brothers and sisters and oppress them.
You don't get to change the narrative.
Just leave to talk about African-American stuff to actually.
Okay. So because he's white, she says because he...
Leave to talk about African-Americans.
Leave it to us, African-Americans.
Don't you dare.
Don't you dare make a historian.
It's triggering because...
The blatant hypocrisy is real that abortion is modern-day slavery.
There's no question that it is, and it is far worse than slavery was.
Say, just in final words to that, is that I believe that all human beings have a duty to stand for justice, no matter the size, no matter the level of development, no matter the color of another human being.
I believe that what made slavery such an abomination was that human beings deserve to be equally protected and show no partiality.
That's what's happening in abortion.
It happened, unfortunately, in America with slavery.
It happened, unfortunately, in the Holocaust.
Okay. Rev. Zeb Candrick.
Rev. Zeb Candrick.
Remember questions.
We'll come back for commentary.
All right.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you, sir.
Thank you all.
All right.
So there was fireworks there.
You have a Jewish woman.
Doesn't like it.
Once the religious says her religion demands that she have the right to an abortion, you've got the black African-American woman.
She's saying, don't bring us into this.
Matter of fact, though, there was a rabbi in the room that took exception to Pastor Jeff Durbin and what he had to say.
At the end of that table, let's listen to that.
Just a brief one-minute clip here.
Good afternoon.
My name is Michael Bernstein.
I'm the rabbi of Congregation Gesher LaTorah in Alpharetta.
I believe I may be the only rabbi speaking, as Representative Panitch is the only Jewish legislator in the state.
I've heard a lot of denial of the Holocaust.
I've heard a lot of discounting of what Jews went through.
I have never heard the killing of six million people compared to embryos.
Let alone blastocytes, zygotes, at conception.
Six million human beings with lives and property and entire worlds snuffed out.
And that's compared.
You want to compare the doctor who spoke before?
So they're very upset.
So this rabbi is upset that he's losing the victim Olympics.
That's what's going on here.
This rabbi's upset because Jeff Durbin...
I mean, come on!
1974, abortion is legal in America.
Between then and now, I think on count, 60 million children have been killed.
60 million?
Now, that's why he is diminishing that.
Oh, they're just an embryo!
Zygotes! And you're comparing that to what actually happened in Germany?
And triggering, I mean, I've never actually, I've never seen this level of triggering.
I've obviously seen the triggering of comparing to slavery.
People don't, but this is a crash out, as the youth say.
Or to Dr. Mengele, at conception.
Six million human beings with lives and property and entire worlds snuffed out, and that's compared.
You want to compare the doctor who spoke before to Dr. Mengele?
This woman who works in IVF, that's what this bill does.
And if you feel that an embryo is like the life of a Jew or, with permission, the enslaved African, then I want to know what you think of Jews and enslaved Africans.
That's how little they...
That's how little they think of.
They think of a baby, a human baby in the womb as nothing, as expendable.
And when they are confronted with their own hypocrisy, they have like a mental breakdown.
I mean, that's what you saw there.
They don't make any sense.
This rabbi here is not making any sense.
Triggered by the Christian pastor, Jeff Durbin, making biblical...
Basically saying, look, this is what the Bible says.
Our laws need to reflect that.
We need to protect the unborn.
And we don't need to un-person them.
We don't need to un-person them.
And there was just a total malfunction.
A total glitch that takes place.
Eye-opening to say the least.
Eye-opening, to say the least.
But that's not all, ladies and gentlemen.
There was also a lady pastor who testified at this hearing yesterday, so that means it's also time for my favorite segment.
And let us confess our faith today in the words of the Sparkle Creed.
I believe in the non-binary God.
And now it's time for I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
All right, for today's segment of I'm Already Against Women Clergy, You Don't Have to Convince Me, brought to you by Mr. John Harris over on X, saying, quote, This is what a Yankee religion brought south looks like.
I love that.
Just... Well, if you know about American church history, that's...
Okay, so Reverend Emily Walker Cornetta of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Atlanta is the executive director at the Episcopal Divinity School in New York City.
Here she is representing Christianity opposing this bill.
Let's take a listen to what she said.
This is Reverend Emily Walker Cornetta.
I am an Atlanta resident.
I live in Fulton County.
I'm an assisting priest at St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Midtown.
I'm grateful for the opportunity to speak to you today.
For eight years, I worked as a perinatal hospital chaplain, ministering to pregnant patients and their families, grappling with serious fetal or maternal medical conditions, sometimes both.
Over these years, I would sit with families of many different faiths as they processed a situation they never in a million years thought they would ever have to face.
They'd work their way through impossible questions, questions like, if they continued the pregnancy, what would their baby's life be like?
How much their child would have to suffer?
Whether they'd be able to parent this child, what this birth What it would mean for their other living children and on and on and on.
And over these years of listening, what I saw in these families was the opposite of indifference.
I saw love, a weighty sense of responsibility, and a clear-eyed awareness of the kind of life they would want to give a child and grief about what was actually possible given the realities that they were facing.
And all of this listening over the years taught me that women and families need to be trusted and empowered to make difficult moral decisions about pregnancy and their families.
And I'll conclude with this.
You are hearing a lot of vocal Christians in here preaching to you that Christianity teaches that abortion under any circumstance is a sin and please understand they do not speak for all Christians.
Not today in this country and certainly not over centuries of Christian witness and practice.
You're also hearing a lot about protecting life and I am I believe that we must protect life here in Georgia.
To do that, let us please invest in systems of care and support rather than systems of punishment.
This girl claims to be on the side of life, but it is demeaning and cruel, and it will only bring about more death.
Do I even really need to say anything other than, I mean, you know, that's why we picked this for, you know, my favorite segment.
This has been I'm Already Against Women Clergy.
You don't have to convince me.
Yeah, absolutely ridiculous.
But that kind of wraps up what happened in Georgia.
And fascinating discussion.
Incredible how, like, a biblical framework of how our laws should protect the unborn.
How it has a triggering effect from women pastoruses who are a part of apostate churches.
How it triggered the African Americans there.
Triggered a rabbi.
And triggered the only Jewish state representative in the state of Georgia because she thinks she has a religious right under the Talmud to murder her children or murder her babies.
If her life's in danger.
But it wasn't just that.
It was also if she emotionally...
Mentally, emotionally, or psychologically thought she couldn't handle it.
That is wild stuff.
And you know what?
There's a lot of Americans who have no idea that those opinions, that those, quote, religious convictions are manifest among modern-day Jews and Judaism.
So, moving on.
Oh, do we have time?
I'm running.
I'm sorry.
I have so much more to get to, and so now I'm trying to think, like, what do I need to go on to next?
Do we want to go ahead and do...
Let's see.
What is my next story?
Okay, we've got Trump on tariffs in the cars.
Okay, so Trump has announced a 25% tariff on vehicles not made in the United States.
That is concerning.
I will say this.
Trump has endorsed the re-election of Lindsey Graham.
It has to be criticized.
It has to be universally criticized.
Trump, in his endorsement, says, look, Lindsey has always been a friend to me, is what he said.
Now, there's obviously manifest clips of Lindsey Graham slamming Trump, but Trump thinks he's an ally for some reason, the Lady G, as he's known on X. He's facing a primary opponent.
He's going to be facing...
I think Lindsey Graham, he's got like a 30% approval rating in South Carolina, is going to be targeted to be electorally eliminated.
And I think that needs to happen.
Regardless of Trump's endorsement, I think Lindsey Graham needs to be soundly defeated.
It's way past time.
I'm sick of...
The whole country is.
Of course, it's up to South Carolina.
We'll see.
That state is not exactly the bastion of transparency.
So we'll see what happens.
To me, it's just a massive L for Trump to endorse Lindsey Graham.
But anyway, we'll watch that closely.
But anyway, the tariffs and the economy.
Now here's also this.
We'll play you this clip.
This is Donald Trump speaking some truth here.
Listen. No matter how many surgeries you have or chemicals you inject, if you're born with male DNA in every cell of your body, you can never become a woman.
You're not going to be a woman.
So the Center for Baptist Leadership says that they are thankful to see President Trump defending God's creation, order of male and female.
No matter how many surgeries, you can never change your sex.
We've got the judicial.
The federal court just rejected the overturning of Judge Bozberg's ban on Trump deporting Venezuelan gang members under the Alien and Enemies Act.
It was a two-to-one ruling.
So this is going to continue.
Now, speaking of deportations, we have this.
We have Kristi Noem.
We need to talk about Kristi Noem for a second.
She posted this video.
You know, Eric Daughtery says the optics are amazing.
I mean, I will say this.
I've never seen anything like this.
I'm here at Seacott today and visiting this facility.
And first of all, I want to thank El Salvador and their president for their partnership with the United States of America to bring our terrorists here and to incarcerate them and have consequences for the violence that they have perpetuated in our communities.
I also want everybody to know, if you come to our country illegally, this is one of the consequences you could face.
First of all, Do not come to our country illegally.
Don't come to the country illegally.
If you do, you may wind up in an El Salvadorian prison.
And so, yeah, I mean, this is certainly like the deportations.
And, I mean, this is certainly something that has needed to happen for a long time.
But can we talk about Kristi Noem for a second?
I do not get...
I just...
I don't understand...
So much of what it is she's doing in terms of just the publicity, it just seems so forced and contrived.
With the hair and a lot of times with the flak jacket and the hats, I don't get it.
C.J. Engel saying, I'll never understand the G.I. Jane Tough Babe political branding.
Must be for the thirsty Gen X men who watch Yellowstone and have a man cave.
Possibly. Mel says this is dystopian.
Who keeps asking for all these theatrics just to port illegal immigrants back to their home countries and move on to the next?
Look, I mean, I'll be honest.
I feel like looking at a gift horse in the mouth, right?
But it is odd.
I will say it is odd.
The branding, the public relations in this regard.
It's odd.
And I guess you could say Christy Nolm, she's got ambition, right?
She wants to be the face because she wants to move on up the ladder to bigger and better things.
So I think that's mainly what's going on here.
Liberation Day.
Okay, we wind down the show.
I said we're going to talk about this.
Donald Trump saying Liberation Day in America is coming soon.
For years we have been ripped off by virtually every country in the world, both friend and foe, but those days are over.
America first.
What is Liberation Day?
They've almost started.
They'll be doing much of the work in Arizona.
So we have a lot of exciting things, but to me this is one of the most exciting.
Now, outside of one specific day, and that's Liberation Day.
That's the real Liberation Day of America, and that's going to be in...
April 2nd?
April 2nd, we're going to have something called Liberation Day.
Trump has spoken of it many times.
Here he is, I believe on...
April 2nd is a liberating day for our country.
We're going to be getting back some of the wealth that very, very foolish presidents gave away.
Okay, we're going to be getting...
April 2nd is Liberation Day.
We're going to be getting back the wealth that many foolish presidents gave away.
This is, by the way, this coming Wednesday.
Here's Howard Lutnick, Commerce Secretary.
Here's Howard Lutnick at their Cabinet meeting earlier this week.
And here's him talking about Liberation Day.
What is so exciting is April 2nd is just around the corner.
And that's American Liberation Day.
That's the day when the rest of the world starts to treat America with respect.
And your leadership.
Understanding how the rest of the world treats us and what balance and what fair trade finally is going to be is going to take care of America.
It's going to launch the External Revenue Service to start to build the power and prestige of America back.
And I'm honored to be helping you.
So, I mean, obviously this has to do with tariffs going into effect, but there's going to be a press conference.
There's going to be, you know, Liberation Day, April 2nd.
And Lutnik, again, is saying the External Revenue Service.
Will the external revenue service replace the internal revenue service?
Will they take the, I don't know, what do you call it, the chopped down IRS, right?
They, what, 45,000 people they're planning on laying off?
Are they going to take that agency, the IRS, and turn it into the, I guess, what would that be, the ERS, the external revenue service?
I'm just saying, maybe I'm being too optimistic here, and I probably am, but I mean, April 15th, April 2nd's before April 15th.
Everybody's got their taxes due on April 15th.
There's a lot of Americans that are scratching their heads thinking, we've got to pay taxes when they've uncovered so much waste, fraud, and abuse.
And it's not even, like that even does, they have uncovered an active hate and disdain for the American people within Our government's funding apparatus.
I mean, it is obvious that they are just giving away billions and billions of dollars and printing money.
They have magic money machines Elon Musk has exposed.
It's to the point where, what's the point of our money?
Our money is actually not going to fund the government.
It certainly doesn't feel like it when they can just print the money.
And so then you start thinking, well, the only reason that you have the taxes that we do is specifically...
Not to fund the government, not for some sort of e pluribus unum or whatever.
It's there specifically to oppress the people.
That's what has been made clear to me with all of this.
It's not about doing your part for the government.
It's not about that.
It only exists to keep Americans down and the middle class shrinking.
What else do we have?
We had him here talking about it as well.
On April 2nd, the reciprocal tariffs will go into effect.
Is it truly reciprocal?
Are there some countries that might get a break or some sectors that might get a break?
Well, I may give a lot of countries breaks, but it's reciprocal.
We might be even nicer than that.
You know, we've been very nice to a lot of countries for a long time.
But I call it Liberation Day.
April 2nd is Liberation Day.
But today, as you know, we did something with respect to Venezuela.
You heard about that?
So, coincidentally, the Coinage Act of 1792, back in the 18th century, the Coinage Act of 1792, also known as the Mint Act, officially, an act establishing a mint and regulating the coins of the United States, passed by the United States Congress April 2nd of 1792, created the United States dollar as the country's standard unit of money, established the United States Mint, and regulated the coinage of the United States.
This act established the silver dollar as the unit of money in the United States and declared it to be lawful tender and created a decimal system for the United States currency.
Now, this could all just be a coincidence, but some people online have obviously made the connection.
Is this about...
I will tell you this, there's no question...
Especially with what Donald Trump is doing, you know, trying to talk about Fort Knox, even trying to talk about crypto.
And with the external revenue service being jotted about us, potentially replacing the IRS at some point in the future.
You're talking about a complete financial revolution.
That's one thing I know.
A complete financial revolution is at least being attempted.
Whether or not it will be successful, I don't know.
But there's a lot of moving parts here.
For sure.
That's all the time that we have for this edition of the Millstone Report.
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