Welcome to the Wall Builders Show, the intersection of faith and the culture, where we look at things from a biblical, historic, and a constitutional perspective.

My name is Tim Barton. I am the president of Wall Builders, joined by my father, David Barton, the founder of wallbuilders.

And if you listen yesterday, you might already know.

If not, our third co-host is Rick Green.

That's not the point.

What you might know is that today is kind of a special day for him and his family.

His youngest son is getting married.

He's in Hawaii.

And so we said, Rick, we will allow you to take this day off.

And maybe a bonus day after that once they're kind of, they're not totally empty nesters,

but all their kids are married.

And he's got his wife in Hawaii.

The wedding's over.

So now have the day celebrate.

So probably he might be back with us on Thursday, maybe Friday this week.

But at least today he's not with us because his son's getting married.

So we will be praying Rick for you, for Rhett, for everything going on.

But today, Dad, there's a lot we can talk about because there was a vote last night

in the Senate finally to reopen the government as we were kind of looking to see what might

happen, how it was happening as it was unfolding around us last night.

There are several different people we know sites we kind of follow, some friends

up in D.C. And Mark Wayne Mullen actually had a really good breakdown of some of what was

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