Friday, June 28, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 11:01)
A Human and Political Tragedy: President Joe Biden’s Calamitous Performance in the First Presidential Debate Last Night

Part II (11:01 - 16:43)
‘Aggressive Panic’: Democrats Respond to President Biden’s Debate Performance — The Democrats are in Major (And Complicated) Crisis

Part III (16:43 - 22:17)
Both Candidates Failed on Abortion, But They Didn’t Fail Evenly — Joe Biden and Donald Trump Reveal Our Challenge in Defense of Life

Part IV (22:17 - 25:25)
Credibility in Leadership and on Abortion: Americans Face Two Huge Issues in the Aftermath of Last Night’s Presidential Debate

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0:00.0	It's Friday, June 28, 2024.
0:07.0	I'm Albert Moler, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian
0:12.3	worldview.
0:13.0	Well, what took place last night was announced as a debate.
0:17.0	It turned out to be a debacle.
0:19.0	In terms of American presidential history, this is going to be one of those dates that will be long if not
0:24.4	forever remembered in terms of the endurance of the American Republic.
0:28.6	When you look at the American political system what happened last night was a seismic shift and
0:33.8	what makes it all the more seismic is the understanding that over time the impact is
0:38.4	likely only to grow. It's virtually impossible that people wake up on Friday morning and say,
0:43.2	no, it wasn't as bad as we thought it was.
0:46.0	And I'm talking here in particular about the debate performance of the incumbent
0:49.6	president of the United States for the entire time span from beginning to end and it seemed like
0:54.6	there was a lot of time in the middle it was a debacle it was a disaster for the
0:59.2	incumbent president of the United States Joe Biden now are many ways Christians need to look at this.
1:04.0	For one thing, yes, there were very questionable things
1:08.0	said by the challenger, former President Donald Trump.
1:11.0	But the most important thing to see in the performance of
1:13.9	Donald Trump is that he showed up exactly as Donald Trump. He showed up in
1:18.0	terms of the substance, in terms of the tone, pretty much like Donald Trump has
1:22.3	showed up in similar contexts in
1:24.3	2016 and in 2020. If anything as this candidate showing up in this context
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