Monday, March 17, 2025

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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

Part I (00:13 - 11:07)
The Democratic Party Identity Crisis Turns Into a Political Crisis: As Senator Schumer Backed Away from Shutdown, Young Democrats are Reeling

Young Democrats’ Anger Boils Over as Schumer Retreats on Shutdown by The New York Times (Shane Goldmacher)

Part II (11:07 - 21:08)
Failed States and Terrorist Threats: The Need for a Sustained Military Effort Against the Houthi Rebels in Yemen

Houthi Inc: the pirates who weaponised globalisation by The Economist

Part III (21:08 - 26:27)
A Titan of the Self-Help Movement Dies at 76: The Death and Legacy of Melody Beattie, Author of ‘Codependent No More’

Melody Beattie, Author of a Self-Help Best Seller, Dies at 76 by The New York Times (Richard Sandomir)

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0:00.0	It's Monday, March 17, 2025.
0:08.1	I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:14.5	Over the course of the last several weeks, the headlines have been dominated by Republicans,
0:19.0	and not just Republicans, basically one Republican,
0:21.8	the Republican President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
0:25.6	Understandably, given the fact that he has been pushing so much energy through the executive,
0:30.9	executive orders, other presidential actions, a lot of presidential press conferences and statements,
0:36.7	he has intentionally been basically using up all of the public attention.
0:41.8	But the Democrats are turning out to be a very interesting story in themselves, particularly
0:46.3	right now.
0:47.7	And that's because the Democrats lost the White House, lost their majority in the Senate,
0:51.9	and failed to overcome a Republican majority in the House.
0:55.4	Now, on the House side, that Republican majority is a very thin majority. Senate side, a little
1:00.7	more comfortable, but still on the Senate side, remember, any major bill requires 60 votes.
1:06.8	That's the votes necessary for cloture and in order to avoid a filibuster.
1:12.3	And so the Senate and the House operate by very different rules.
1:15.6	And they also operate with different political agendas.
1:18.2	And that was made very clear just in recent weeks.
1:21.2	The House of Representatives passed to the measure that was endorsed by the White House.
1:26.1	And the Republicans did so with Republican votes
1:28.7	alone. No Democrats were required to vote for the continuing resolution in order for it to pass.
1:34.6	Therefore, the Democrats in the House could basically say they were against it, they took a
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