Folks, welcome to the program. I've got a really special guest right now. His name is Bill Cook. We met in D.C. at the Jericho March. Remember when I was holding up the shofar? Do you remember that? The Jericho March a few months ago. And Bill and I met, I've heard of the Black Ro regiment. I've talked about the black robe regiment,

but Bill plays a special role in the black robe regimen, and we wanted him to talk about it.

Bill Cook, welcome the program. Thank you. It's good to be with you. Now, you're in Virginia,

and you're the CEO of the Black Royal Regiment of Virginia.

Is that right?

Right.

Now, are there Black Roe regimens around the country?

What is the... There are.

There's interest that's risen in other states.

We have folks in Florida, in Tennessee, in Georgia, and I believe in California, Michigan, and other states. There's others like David Barton

and Paul and Dan Fisher. They're both Black Row Regiment men and they are training pastors as well

around the country. Okay. So this is pastors. That's why it's called the Black Robe Regiment.

He's pastors. Tell us the origin of this

idea. I first heard about the Black Robe Regiment through Glenn Beck, probably about 10 years ago.

Tell us, this is having to do with the Revolutionary War, but most people don't know anything about

this. So tell my audience, who was the Black Robe Regiment?

Well, the Black Robe Regiment were, mostly there were congregational ministers of New England,

and they had been preaching, by the time the founding charters were actually written,

they had been preaching the political ideology in the founding charters for

centuries, or not centuries, for decades before that. So that the ideas in the founding charters

were ubiquitous by the time that the war started. And the British referred to the American

clergy as the, as the black regiment. It was a reference to the

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