It's the tip of the spare in the epic battle to defend the United States of America.

The national security hour exposes the wolves in sheep's clothing and the nefarious plots

to undermine and destroy U.S. national security.

Welcome to the National Security Hour on the America Out Loud Network. I'm your host, Blankita

Cullum. Well, like many of you,

we witnessed what happened at the White House Correspondence Dinner, and it was shocking.

I had the background and on just to really basically listen to what the president was going to say,

and I heard what some people will say now that they have seen this on

television more the familiar sounds of popping which clearly were not fireworks they were not fire

of crackers they were not anything other than someone trying to assassinate the president

and members of the participants of that dinner, including cabinet members.

I don't know if you've experienced it, but I'm going to talk about this with my guest,

who is a very well-known pastor.

Many of you would see him on television as a little boy.

I'm talking about Pastor Todd Coconado.

He's nationally recognized, but not only as a pastor, he's a great program, his own podcast,

a lot of stuff that he does out in the public.

But Todd, welcome to the program.

You know, I know that you had an incident in your career and your life where you were stabbed.

We're going to talk about that because it's becoming more frequent for people either to be a victim

or to be in the presence of this.

I can remember many years ago at the Battle of Flowers in San Antonio, this would have been,

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