Monday, December 1, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 1 December 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 – 07:30)
A Brazen and Premeditated Assault in D.C.: Two National Guard Members Shot in Targeted Attack – We Will Have to Watch the Unfolding Investigation Very Closely
Part II (07:30 – 21:40)
Teens Mourn the Loss of Their ‘Chatbot Friends’: This is a Dark Reality for Children and Young People, and Parents Need to Beware
- Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions by The Wall Street Journal (Georgia Wells)
The Emotional Manipulation by Chatbots: A.I. Developers Want You to Stay Engaged With Chatbot, and They Want As Much of Your Time as Possible
Part IV (27:37 – 29:08)
‘But Mine is Alive’ – No, Chatbots are Not Alive, With or Without You
- Replika AI: Monetizing a Chatbot by The Harvard Business School (Julian De Freitas)
- Why It Seems Your Chatbot Really, Really Hates to See You Go by The Wall Street Journal (Heidi Mitchell)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, December 1st, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.6 | Just as Americans were in motion getting ready for the Thanksgiving holiday, the sad news came that there had been a deliberate |
| 0:21.8 | attack upon two members of the West Virginia National Guard on duty deployed in Washington, |
| 0:27.6 | D.C., working with local law enforcement there in D.C. to make the city safe. It was clear from the |
| 0:33.4 | beginning that this was a targeted attack, an assailant came up to two members of the West Virginia |
| 0:38.9 | National Guard, specialist Sarah Bextram and Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe and shot both of them at close |
| 0:45.6 | range. Everyone who observed this said that it was clearly a targeted attack. This came right out |
| 0:52.2 | of the blue on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving Day. And by the time the |
| 0:56.4 | weekend came to an end, the announcement had come sadly that specialist Sarah Bextram had died. |
| 1:02.5 | Now, almost immediately, the president of the United States responded, first, with concern about |
| 1:08.1 | the two members of the National Guard there in West Virginia who had been shot. |
| 1:12.3 | Similar statements came from the governor of West Virginia. And we do remember at this point that |
| 1:18.1 | the National Guard are actually identified with the states and under the command of governors |
| 1:22.5 | state by state. But the West Virginia National Guard has been a part of an effort to work with local law |
| 1:29.7 | enforcement. The Trump administration has been behind this, and that is why these two members |
| 1:35.4 | of the West Virginia National Guard were in Washington, D.C. The news also came pretty quickly |
| 1:41.0 | that the assailant Ramanula Lackenwal, and we have to put the word |
| 1:45.6 | alleged in legal terms in front of that, the man who was arrested for the assault, |
| 1:52.1 | Ramanula Lackinwal, he came to the United States under special circumstances after the very, |
| 2:00.2 | very awkward, let's just say, American withdrawal from Afghanistan. |
| 2:04.7 | It was a tragic act of incompetence of the way that Americans pulled out of Afghanistan. |
| 2:11.4 | You can remember some of the sights of Afghans, even trying to hold onto the wings of American aircraft as they left. In the aftermath of |
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