Monday, November 18, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 14:43)
Cabinet Controversies: Some of Trump’s Potential Appointments Incite Major Furor on Political and Moral Grounds
Part II (14:43 - 22:13)
So What’s the Message About Abortion? Trump Nominates a Kennedy Scion and Iconoclast, RFK Jr., to Head the HHS
Part III (22:13 - 27:05)
The Conservative Impulse to Look Beyond Disorder: A President Should Appoint for Loyalty, but Trump’s Appointments Need to Bring Even More to the Table and Serve Him (And the Nation) Well
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, November 18, 2024. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.4 | Well, there is no doubt that the biggest domestic news story before the weekend, during the weekend, and well in two days ahead, is going to be |
| 0:22.4 | the roster of nominations that the President-elect has announced when it comes to major |
| 0:27.8 | White House and administrative positions, the positions that come under the nomination authority |
| 0:32.9 | of the President of the United States. When it comes to the announcements about impending nominations |
| 0:39.2 | made by President-elect Donald J. Trump, the reality is that some of them are very much |
| 0:44.7 | settled figures. When you're looking at, for instance, Florida Senator Marco Rubio as the |
| 0:50.3 | designee to be the Secretary of State, That is such an important position, as I have indicated |
| 0:55.6 | historically, the most important cabinet position. But Marco Rubio, as the United States Senator of |
| 1:01.9 | many years now, and is one who has a lot of international experience through his involvement as |
| 1:07.6 | the United States Senator, there is no doubt that Marco Rubio is a credible candidate. |
| 1:12.5 | That is an understatement. But when it comes to several of the other announcements made by |
| 1:17.3 | the Trump transition team or the former president, the now president elect himself, |
| 1:22.3 | several of these announcements are extremely problematic and the problematic dimension is not becoming less of a factor |
| 1:29.9 | as we've gone through the weekend and are pressing into the week ahead. If anything, the |
| 1:34.6 | controversies concerning at least four of these nominees are likely to grow. Those four |
| 1:39.4 | announcements have to do with the president-elect's intention to name former Florida Congressman Matt Gates |
| 1:45.3 | as Attorney General of the United States, Fox News figure Pete Hegseff as the Secretary of Defense, |
| 1:52.4 | Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence, and Robert Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary |
| 1:58.2 | of Health and Human Services. Those four are blowing up, and they're blowing up |
| 2:02.8 | for very different reasons, but each of them is blowing up according to a common theme. That theme is |
| 2:07.9 | disruption. That theme of disruption has to be added to the absolute assurance of absolute |
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