I'm Mike Slater from the podcast Politics by Faith. This is a crazy time in our country. It's stressful. A lot of anxiety and it's going to get worse.

And I realize that one of the things that helps me take away the stress is realizing that

there's nothing new under the sun. So on this podcast we take the news of the day and

we run it through the Bible and other periods in history to realize that we've been

through this before and we can rise above again.

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All right, problematic, let's get to it. The first presidential debate between Trump and Biden

is next week, and Trump has made some terrible concessions

to CNN as far as what this debate is going to look like. And before I even get

into what he agreed to, which I'm really shocked that Trump or his team even agreed to which I'm really shocked that Trump or his team even agreed to some of these things.

I let me break down sort of like how I feel about the mainstream media even going into this

election why I don't really think that Trump and, you know, the Republicans

should be dealing with them at the level that they do, and what the dangers are here moving

out.

So look, we all know that the mainstream media is not going to give

Republicans a fair shot okay it doesn't matter if it's Trump it doesn't matter if it

ended up being Mickey Haley at the top of the, it doesn't matter if it ended up being Nikki Haley at the top of the ticket.

It doesn't matter if it's Ben Carson in 2028.

The legacy mainstream media is just basically anti-conservative, anti-right, anti-Republican, right?

So the RNC, the Republican Party, the Trump people, they have to know this before going

into any situation in which a mainstream media outlet is

hosting the debate. As much as these people argue about the fake news

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