Monday, November 10, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses the senate’s big step to reopen the U.S. government, Nancy Pelosi’s retirement announcement, Pelosi’s political and moral influence on the politics of the Left, and the “art” of a $10 million dollar toilet seat.
Part I (00:14 – 11:28)
The Senate Takes Big Step to Reopen the U.S. Government: This Shutdown is a Global Embarrassment, and Our Politicians Need to Fix the Problem
- A Light in Very Dark Days: Nancy Pelosi and AIDS by The New York Times (Adam Nagourney, Heather Knight, Kellen Browning and Laurel Rosenhall)
Nancy Pelosi’s Last Term: This Term Will Be the Last for the Former Speaker of the House
Part III (20:42 – 22:27)
A Parable of Liberalism in the Modern Democratic Party: The Political and Moral Influence of Nancy Pelosi on the Politics of the Left
Part IV (22:27 – 27:31)
A Parable of Contemporary Art: A $10 Million Solid Gold Toilet Is Art? The Puns Write Themselves
- Who’s Selling the $10 Million Gold Toilet? Signs Point to the Mets’ Owner. by The New York Times (Julia Halperin and Zachary Small)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, November 10, 2025. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.2 | It was at 39 days, 21 hours, and just under 10 minutes, that the United States Senate finally passed a procedural vote, |
| 0:23.0 | which will allow a measure to continue funding the United States government to move forward in the |
| 0:29.5 | Senate. That took place late last night. And let's just put it into context. Number one, this is not |
| 0:35.0 | the end of the issue. This does not mean the government is funded. This does not mean that a continuing resolution has now been adopted by both |
| 0:41.8 | houses. First of all, the Senate has voted only, as of last night, on a procedural issue. |
| 0:48.0 | And that means that the actual measure itself is going to have to be debated and then passed |
| 0:53.8 | by the Senate. But at this point, |
| 0:55.8 | as of late last night, several Democrats, enough Democrats, at least eight Democratic senators |
| 1:00.9 | have basically crossed the aisle to join with Republicans to bring at least a temporary funding |
| 1:07.1 | measure for the federal government to get federal workers back at work, air traffic |
| 1:12.3 | controllers and others back at work and paid, and furthermore, to get federal programs |
| 1:19.0 | back into funding at least the levels previously adopted by Congress. Now, let's just understand |
| 1:26.6 | there are some big things going on here. We're still, |
| 1:29.6 | I won't say a long way, but we're still some way from reopening the federal government. |
| 1:35.3 | And that's for a couple of reasons. Number one, it has been now the longest shutdown in |
| 1:41.3 | American political history. So I'll just go back to the numbers. 39 days and 21 hours |
| 1:48.7 | and just a little bit of change in terms of what has already been shut down in terms of the |
| 1:55.7 | government before this procedural vote. So this doesn't reopen the government, but it took that long, |
| 2:01.8 | even for this procedural vote. And it basically is a surrender by at least a handful of Democrats in |
| 2:08.6 | the Senate to the fact that the political cost of keeping the government shut down was just too great. |
| 2:14.9 | This was a classic Western showdown. It was a showdown like in the OK |
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