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folks welcome to the program. I've got a really special guest right now. His name is Bill

Cook. We met in DC at the Jericho March. Remember when I was holding up the show far. Do you

remember that? The Jericho March few months ago and Bill and I met. I've heard of the Black

Robes Regiment. I've talked about the Black Robes Regiment, but Bill plays a special role

in the Black Robes Regiment and we wanted him to talk about it. Bill Cook, welcome to

program. Thank you. It's good to be with you. Now you're in Virginia and you're the CEO

of the Black Robes Regiment of Virginia, is that right? Right. Now are there black

Robes Regiments around the country? What is the? There are. There are other. There's

interest in this reason in other states. We have we have folks in Florida in Tennessee in

Georgia. Okay. I believe in California, Michigan and other states. There's others like

David Barton and Paul and Dan Fisher. They're both Black Robes 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 Robes Regiment. Yes. Pastors tell us the origin of this idea. I first heard

about the Black Robes 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 Robes Regiment? Well, the Black Robes 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

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