Monday, February 12, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 17:19)
‘A Well-Meaning Elderly Man with a Poor Memory’: The President’s Age is Now an Unavoidable Issue, and in a Big Way
- Report of the Special Counsel on the Investigation Into Unauthorized Removal, Retention, and Disclosure of Classified Documents Discovered at Locations Including the Penn Biden Center and the Delaware Private Residence of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. by U.S. Department of Justice
Part II (17:19 - 23:02)
We Would Not Aid an Ally in Need? Evaluating the Former President Trump's Words About NATO Over the Weekend
Part III (23:02 - 26:51)
Major Haley is Abroad Serving His Country: The Story Behind the Bizarre Headline
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, |
| 0:05.0 | Monday, February 12, 2024. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. It may well be that we will |
| 0:15.0 | look back on February 8, 2024 as a turning point in the American presidency. One of those historical dates in which we say there was a before and there's an after. |
| 0:26.0 | Why is that date so important? |
| 0:27.2 | It is because last Thursday, February the 8th, a special prosecutor dropped the report having investigated the current president of the |
| 0:35.4 | United States, Joe Biden, against charges of having wrongly retained and improperly |
| 0:41.4 | stored and wrongly used highly classified |
| 0:44.8 | information in violation of federal law and the prosecutor did find that |
| 0:50.2 | the president had done those things but he said he wasn't bringing a charge against him |
| 0:55.2 | primarily because of his memory. In what may go down is one of the most memorable lines from any report like this. |
| 1:03.3 | Robert Hurst said that the president came across as quote a well-meaning |
| 1:06.8 | elderly man with a poor memory and I would also quote the report as stating |
| 1:11.8 | that the president had diminished faculties in advancing age. |
| 1:15.6 | Among the evidence brought forward by the prosecutor is the fact that the current president was unable to specifically date when he served as vice president of the United States |
| 1:27.1 | and this became a very controversial issue it led to an awful lot of Democratic Party blowback |
| 1:36.8 | the prosecutor went on to say that in the interview, the president was unable to come up with the year in which his son Bo had died. |
| 1:42.5 | Now almost immediately there were recriminations |
| 1:44.5 | from the White House. |
| 1:45.1 | The president came out, made a statement |
| 1:46.8 | about how indignity was that the prosecutor |
| 1:49.4 | would have asked such a question, |
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