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To begin with, I want to tie together three events, three, three things here if I may, just very

quickly. And the guy to do it is Jeff Charlotte. Jeff Charlotte's on the phone with his website

JeffCharlotte-sh-a-r-l-e-t.com. Jeff, the author of, of course, contributing to Harper's and

Rolling Stone. Author of the New York Times bestseller, The Family, The Secret Fundamentalism

at the heart of American power. Jeff, welcome back to our program.

Hey Tom, good to be here. Great to have you with us. Here, let me just lay these three things out

really quickly. My question for this hour is are religious cults killing democracy the same as

they're killing people? Well, the guy who started on this is that this week there's going to be a

verdict in a case here in Oregon where a family denied medical care to two of their children who

both died because they were members of a religious cult that believed in only faith healing.

And in fact, there's a cemetery here for, you know, that includes members of this family.

There's over 20 bodies that have, you know, there's just been a whole bunch of deaths in this

one little cult here. Number one, number two, we've got the Ugandan Killer Gaze Bill,

the apparently Hillary Clinton had a conversation with the president with Mousseventy of Uganda,

and they're not going to be pushing it quite so hard. And the head, the organizer of that's

been disinvited from the National Prayer Breakfast, which brings me to number three, which is,

I think the crux of the whole thing. And that is the Thursday, the National Prayer Breakfast is

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