Wednesday, March 20, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 11:48)
Senator Schumer’s Breach of Political Decorum: Majority Leader Calls for New Election and Replacement of Israeli Prime Minister

Part II (11:48 - 19:57)
Do We Really Want to Live in an Economy Where People Only Work 30 Hours a Week? Examining Senator Sanders’s 32-Hour Work Week Bill

The case for a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay by The Washington Post (Bernie Sanders and Shawn Fain)

Part III (19:57 - 24:46)
‘We Have Capture’: Pioneer Astronaut of American-Soviet Space Mission, Thomas Stafford, Dies at 93

Thomas Stafford, 93, Commander of First U.S.-Soviet Space Mission, Dies by The New York Times (Richard Goldstein)

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, March 20, 2024.
0:07.6	I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing.
0:10.1	A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
0:13.7	Sometimes we need to remind ourselves when we are observing a breach in political decorum.
0:19.6	When we see something that in any previous age would have been nearly unthinkable, but now it's something
0:25.7	that's just another headline.
0:27.7	I'm speaking of what happened last Thursday in the United States Senate, where that body's majority leader, Democratic Senator Charles Schumer,
0:35.7	known as Chuck Schumer of New York, delivered an address in which he called for elections
0:40.8	in Israel and for the replacement of Israel's current Prime Minister Benjamin
0:45.6	Netanyahu.
0:46.6	Now that is really big headline news and internationally so and we need to recognize what took place there. You had a major
0:54.9	democratic figure, a major constitutional figure as the United States senator, a
0:59.5	major political figure as the United States senator who is also the majority leader
1:05.1	there in the Senate and thus largely in control of what happens on the floor and
1:08.8	he is also often described in the media as the highest ranking politician who is Jewish.
1:17.4	When you have the majority leader in the United States Senate calling for the removal of the
1:21.4	Israeli Prime Minister, when you have that same official calling for new election, for the in Democratic decorum. Now just to consider what would happen if the situation
1:34.8	were reversed. Let's say that you woke up this morning and you heard that the
1:39.3	president of France called for the replacement of the President of the United States.
1:44.0	Now, we're not saying that the President of France doesn't have an opinion.
1:47.5	We are saying that the President of France, he is to keep his mouth shut when it comes to calling for American elections.
1:54.0	It's not the same system, of course, ours come on predictable four-year cycles.
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