Do you think Republicans are going to pay a price for that lack of action on the economy and affordability?

affordability?As I've said before, Kristen, here's my prediction about the elections.

I will bet you a soda and a nice hat that the experts are wrong.

I will think, I do think it will be close.

I think the biggest issue is cost of living.

Um, I think we have to tell the American people the truth.

We c- we, we, we, telling them not to believe their own lying checkbooks i- is not gonna work.

How does that help the Republican Party a month out from the midterm, Senator?

Is that renewed bombing something you support?

I don't know.

I haven't seen the classified intelligence.

Iran made an offer recently to the president.

It was not a serious offer.

The president's not Bambi's baby brother.

He turned it down.

Do you share her concern? Are you going to join her effort?

Do you believe Republicans will be punished at the polls for the price of gas?

Well, here's what I think about the economy for what it's worth, except for inflation.

which, as I said, sucks.

The economy's solid.

Growth is okay.

Unemployment's low.

Wages, they're going up, not as high as we'd like.

Do you agree with President Trump?

How can troops come home without ceding the Strait to the Iranians? What would you need to see to call the troops back?

Well, I didn't say the troops should come home.

I said it's certainly an option that we need to consider.

Another option at the other extreme is to arm the Kurds and let them keep any country or any part of Iran that they conquer.

But look, many of the crunchy granola types in the Democratic Party and the media have lost perspective about Iran.

Let me put it this way, Jackie.

Remember in high school and you're taking a test and everybody starts using a ruler and you think the answer is Abraham Lincoln? Well, many of the Democrats and members of the media are utterly and unspinnably wrong about Iran.

Do you feel like there needs to be? some sort of a different strategy to Put Republicans on better footing heading into the midterms on the issue of affordability

But I'm also not seeing all the ads they're running on TV, which I'm sure make Talarico look like, uh, he's as, he's as Texas as a Stetson and a barbecue or something.

Well, that's a great question.

Here's the thing, y- you've heard the expression, "It's never the crime, it's the cover-up." In an election, it's, it's never the vote, it's the turnout, and I've been all over the country, uh, campaigning for, for my colleagues.

I've been to Ohio, uh, Iowa, New Hampshire, Alaska, uh, North Carolina.

I'm leaving some out.

I'm going to, I'm going to Michigan.

I'll eventually go to Texas.

You mentioned affordability as the focus, and that's the advice that you would give the president if he were asking you, "Hey, what do we focus on?" H- what would be your answer, and you may well have given this, uh, to, uh, to the president, what should happen on Iran? Uh, what should we do? How do we solve it? Where are we? What is your advice in that situation?

But I'm also not seeing all the ads they're running on TV, which I'm sure make Tallarico look like, uh, he's as, he's as Texas as a Stetson and a barbecue or something.

Well, that's a great question.

Here's the thing.

You- you've heard the expression, "It's never the crime, it's the cover-up." In an election, it's, it's never the vote, it's the turnout, and I've been all over the country, uh, campaigning for, for my colleagues.

I've been to Ohio, uh, Iowa, New Hampshire, Alaska, uh, North Carolina.

I'm leaving some out.

I'm going to, I'll go into Michigan.

You mentioned affordability as the focus, and that's the advice that you would give the president if he were asking you, "Hey, what do we focus on?" H- what would be your answer, and you may well have given this, uh, to, uh, to the president, what should happen on Iran? Uh, what should we do? How do we solve it? Where are we? What is your advice in that situation?

What specific problems can you help solve for us?

As we know, most chiropractors will take an x-ray first time out for a new patient.

If you write a referral and the patient has to leave your practice, the chances are they're not going to come back.

And if they do come back, it may be a week or two weeks before you get the films and the report back.

That's a delay in management and a delay in that customer touchpoint, which is really important to ensure that they actually keep coming back, right? So a one-off visit you know it's not really enough you really want to get a patient in there for at least i just saw a chiropractor myself someone who does the um the cbp okay does a 12 12-week consultation i know how important it is to go there consistently over a period of time one or two visits isn't enough radiology is one of those mechanisms one of those tools which enables you to articulate the patient's problems immediately and be on the process or a pathway of a management plan.

Where we come into it is unfortunately, radiology has an unintended consequence, right? So you can't just say as a chiropractor, I'm going to take a full spine X-ray, but all I want to see is basically the vertebrae, exclude the lungs, exclude all the soft tissues.

It doesn't work that way, mate.

Now,

But go to my brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.'" Mary Magdalene went and announced this to the disciples, "I have seen the Lord, and he has said these things to me." Thank you.

Um, thank you, Sue, for this week, uh, for reading.

Um, please take our greetings from Crescent, uh, back to your church in Barnstaple.

Many will know that Barnstaple is associated, a long association, with the movement associated with this church.

And if you've read anything about R.C. Chapman, R.C. Chapman was from, um, Barnstaple.

So let us look at the passage, um, before us.

So over the summer months, we have, as Reuben has said, journeying through the Gospel of John, focusing on Jesus' personal encounters with people.

SEN.

BERNIE SANDERS , Well, I have listened carefully to the members of the Graham-Plattner wing of the Democratic Party, like Dr.

El-Sayed and others.

And the only possible explanation is just real strong drugs.

In some really blue areas of the country, what they're selling may sell.

But in the rest of the country, what they stand for won't get you a psychiatric evaluation.

Our scheme, if you will.

It's like we're we're firing a bow and arrow, but we're completely missing the target.

Why would this time be different?

Well, it may not be.

But I think we have lost perspective a little bit on, on Iran.

Um, do, do you know why, uh, uh, Hezbollah and Hamas are degraded? Do you know why Iran is the furthest away it's ever been from having a nuclear warhead? Uh, do, do you, do you know why Iran doesn't have an air force or a navy? Do you know why its weapons stockpile and launchers and weapons production plants have been substantially degraded? It's because Israel and America, uh, hit them so hard they coughed up bones, and I think that it has made the world measurably safer as a result.

Now, the strait is a problem.

That's a big understatement.

You don't have to be a senior at Caltech to know we only have three choices: escalate, retreat and come home, or maintain the status quo.

Will you support a deal, a bipartisan deal, if it is reached, to avoid another government shutdown?

If the Fed didn't hike today, are you concerned that they might have to do so just ahead of the midterms?

Well, they might.

I guess I'd make two points.

Number one, let's not lose sight of the big picture.

I wouldn't trade the American economy right now for any economy in the world.

Not China, not Germany, not anybody in Europe, not Canada.

Number two, I think the Fed didn't hike because they don't know what to do.

If we're responding to Iranian attacks, as CENTCOM said was the case in the previous 12 days of strikes we're just coming off of, is the U.S. really in control in this theater?

Are you comfortable with it?

it?Nope.

Um, maybe some- someday, but not right now.

Um, we're, we're bombing a country to keep them from getting a nuclear weapon, but we're signing a deal with another country, I know it's a commercial agreement, but that the world perceives as possibly someday leading to a nuclear weapon.

The world's on a hair trigger.

Uh, the world looks at what's going on in, uh, in, in Ukraine, the Middle East.

Uh, the, the world looks at, uh, America's relationship now with Europe.

Why, why are you asking it?

Are you convinced that the anti-weaponization fund is dead?

Well, I am, but I don't speak for John.

Senator Cornyn is a very good lawyer.

I'm going to miss him in the U.S. Senate, and I don't think he is convinced.

I am because I have talked... privately with and heard Mr. Blanch testify publicly about it, and he's given me his word that it's dead.

The president hasn't said that it's dead, but the president never will say that it's dead.

But I think the president, this is just a guess, but I know the president, you do too.

Yeah, but you're someone who speaks a lot of plain

Well, Senator, what's on your mind?

Well, I'm thinking about the work that we have to do in Washington when we start up again on Monday.

I'm thinking about the midterm elections.

I don't know, John, that we're going to get a lot done in Washington between now and the midterm elections because we're going to get virtually no cooperation from our Democratic colleagues.

I hope I'm wrong in that.

I'm concentrating on the Senate, re-election in the Senate.

I'm spending all my time in the battleground states.

Is common sense gone in the Democratic Party, or are they going to rise up and squash these socialists? Well,

And, well, Senator, what's on your mind on a Sunday morning?

Well, politically...

I'm thinking about the work that we have to do in Washington when we start up again on Monday.

I'm thinking about the midterm elections.

I don't know, John, that we're going to get a lot done in Washington between now and the midterm elections because we're going to get virtually no cooperation from our Democratic colleagues.

I hope I'm wrong in that.

I'm concentrating on the Senate elections.

How can they con the entire Democratic Party that they're now the kings of the land?

And, well, Senator, what's on your mind on a Sunday morning?

Well, politically...

I'm thinking about the work that we have to do in Washington when we start up again on Monday.

I'm thinking about the midterm elections.

I don't know, John, that we're going to get a lot done in Washington between now and the midterm elections because we're going to get virtually no cooperation from our Democratic colleagues.

I hope I'm wrong in that.

I'm concentrating on the Senate elections.

How can they con the entire Democratic Party that they're now the kings of the land?

What the heck is going on?

Well, it's kind of predictable, John.

I think the president was right to give peace a chance.

But so far it hasn't worked.

I mean, dealing with the Iranian government is like dealing with some of Sam or John Wayne Gacy or Charles Manson.

They're just not rational people.

But we tried.

It's a mess, and we've got to get rid of the guerrillas because they never want

chance.

But so far it hasn't worked.

I mean, dealing with the Iranian government is like dealing with some of Sam or John Wayne Gacy or Charles Manson.

They're just not rational people.

But we tried.

And what I think we ought to do next is what the president is starting to do, We had taken the sanctions off the sale of Iranian oil.

He has put those back on.

It's a mess, and we've got to get rid of the guerrillas because they never

What the heck is going on?

Well, it's kind of predictable, John.

I think the president was right to give peace a chance.

But so far it hasn't worked.

I mean, dealing with the Iranian government is like dealing with some of Sam or John Wayne Gacy or Charles Manson.

They're just not rational people.

But we tried.

Hormuz next to Oman.

What's, what's your response to that?

Well, I know Tucker.

He's, uh, very, very smart.

He's very articulate.

Um, he has fallen out with President Trump and with those of us in the, uh, in the Senate, uh, who support Israel.

Uh, he primarily fell out with President Trump over the conflict in Iran.

Now, I've s- been very supportive of the president on the conflict in Iran.

Wow.

[laughs]

Um, they, they, they're not rational people.

It's like dealing with Charlie Manchin, Manchin.

Uh, they, they, they all think they're on a mission from God.

Um, they learned to lie before they learned to talk.

Uh, do I believe even if they put it in writing that they will never tr- attempt to, uh, develop a nuclear warhead? No.

So the balances and the checks, uh, in this document are gonna matter.

And do you think that there is a sense of urgency among, from you and among your Republican colleagues that putting Clayton in would get Pulte out? Sounds like you don't want Pulte to remain.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, we have accomplished in Iran what we set out to do.

Uh, why did we go in? Our intelligence, our spies said Iran is, uh, manufacturing in, in a massive amount conventional weapons, drones, missiles, launchers, uh, so they can, uh, turn to the, to, uh, uh, Israel and America and say, "We're about to restart our weapons program, nuclear warhead program, and if you bomb us again as you did last June, uh, you can do it, but we'll destroy the Middle East.

And by the way, our missiles can reach Berlin and Paris and London." Uh, President Trump couldn't allow that happ- to happen.

Uh, he went in.

He stopped that.

Uh, uh, we have, uh, injured severely both the public and private sector of Iran.

Hmm.

That's the thing about it, it just works.

It does work.

I helped pass a s- a bill at the state level about two or three years ago.

I, I copied it from Mississippi and Florida, and we, we basically said, uh, "Look, if you're in the third grade, and you're in the third grade and you can't read, we're gonna give you several chances to take the test, but if you can't do it, we're gonna hold you back and give you intensive tutoring."

Mm-hmm.

And Florida has had that for a long time.

They've also introduced school choice, which we have started here in Louisiana, um, which has been quite a battle.

It's not giving up on public schools.

[laughs] I'm not gonna ask you for endorsements, but, um, if you were the lieutenant governor and there is a Democrat elected governor, could you work with a Democratic governor as well as a Republican governor?

Sure.

You do what you have to, right? If the objective is trying to move the needle in the right direction and move public policy in the better direction for all of Georgia.

Um, does that make it more difficult? Sure, uh, as a Republican and someone who's been, I, I say this humbly, at the highest level of leadership on the Senate side in Georgia.

Um, butFolks ex- folks that elect us expect us to go to the Capitol and do the work and get things done, and that often means you don't get exactly what you want or everything that you want, uh, nor does the other side, nor does perhaps anybody that's at the table.

But as long as we're moving things in the right direction, and of course, therein sometimes lies the rub, right, on, on how do we do that.

But I think it's a matter of having a skill set, and yes, I think I can, can, I can work with anyone that I need to, understanding that it doesn't matter who gets the credit, and as long as we're moving public policy in the right direction, sure.

Where do you stand on that issue?

I just spoke to Gordon Chang, and he tells me that all those agents that came in from China during the Biden administration, they're hiding someplace in the United States.

Yes, they are, and it's been a problem.

And the Chinese government has taken advantage through the years of America's hospitality and generosity.

President Trump is the first president in my lifetime that has really stood up to China.

And Xi Jinping, the emperor of whatever you want to call him in China, they want to run the world.

They want to dominate Europe, Indo-Pacific, space, the Arctic.

And the president's the first president in my lifetime who's standing up to them.

Well, the