Monday, June 5, 2023

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 23 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 - 13:57)
Was the Debt Ceiling Crisis a Manufactured Drama? Not Entirely, But There Was a Political Plot and a Predictable Resolution

Part II (13:57 - 19:22)
A Parable of America’s Fracturing Entertainment Culture: What the Viewership of the Finale of ‘Succession’ Teaches About the American Public and New Media

Part III (19:22 - 23:18)
Stories and the Imago Dei: Humans Are Storytelling Creatures — And Our Place in God's Story Matters Most

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0:00.0	It's Monday, June 5, 2023.
0:07.8	I'm Albert Moeller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from
0:12.2	a Christian worldview.
0:13.8	Well we have just been through a massive national drama.
0:16.8	That drama reached a fever pitch toward the end of last week, and then all of a sudden
0:20.8	the drama reached its climax when the House of Representatives passed under Republican
0:26.0	leadership under the leadership of a Republican speaker of the House, passed legislation to
0:30.6	raise the debt ceiling after there had been a negotiation between the Republican speaker
0:35.0	and the Democratic president of the United States Joe Biden.
0:38.5	The Biden administration, the president himself, has said that he would not negotiate until
0:43.0	at the end he and the speaker rather personally with their teams reached an agreement.
0:49.0	There was a negotiation, and then there was the high drama, the tension as to whether
0:53.1	or not the speaker would get enough votes in the House to pass the bill he did, but that
0:58.2	meant an awful lot of Democratic votes, and the loss of a lot of Republican votes.
1:02.2	And then the question is what would the Senate do?
1:04.7	And then the Senate did exactly what the Senate, according to the script, had to do.
1:09.5	The Senate also passed the legislation, but with senators on the right and senators on
1:14.2	the left saying no, it was the center that held.
1:18.2	But then Joe Biden, the president of the United States, the Democrat who had built his political
1:22.8	brand on deal making and his ability to pull a brand out of the fire at the last minute.
1:28.8	Joe Biden celebrated the victory by announcing to a nationwide television audience from the
1:34.3	Oval Office, the first address this president had given from the Oval Office.
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