Wednesday, March 5, 2025
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 5 March 2025
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 17:03)
Politics, Partisanship, and Performance Art in a Social Media Age: President Trump’s Historic Joint Address to Congress
- Full Transcript of President Trump’s Speech to Congress by The New York Times
Part II (17:03 - 23:18)
Neon Tape, a Padlock, and a Little Library: 4 College Students in California Turn a A Little Library into Performance Art over Book Bans – Book Bans That Don’t Even Exist
- Chapman students lock up some Little Free Libraries as segue to larger discussion on censorship and diversity by Daily Pilot (Eric Licas)
Part III (23:18 - 26:57)
Big News from the Moon: Private Firm Firefly’s Blue Ghost Lander Successfully Reaches Lunar Surface
- Private lunar lander Blue Ghost aces moon touchdown with a special delivery for NASA by The LA Times (Marcia Dunn)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, March 5, 2025. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.4 | Well, last night, President Donald J. Trump went into the House of Representatives Chamber to address a joint session of Congress, and everyone |
| 0:22.5 | knew that history would be in the making, and everyone who knows Donald Trump and American |
| 0:27.4 | politics knows full well that it was going to be a demonstration of political theater at |
| 0:32.6 | its height as well, and it was both things last night. It was a major historic political event that's necessary. |
| 0:40.0 | It's absolute when you have a president of the United States addressing a joint session of Congress. |
| 0:45.3 | That means the House and the Senate together in a formal occasion in order to give hearing to an address. |
| 0:51.1 | That's history. It's always going to be history, but it is also politics. It's |
| 0:55.9 | theater, all of it now together in this appearance of the president upon the invitation of Congress |
| 1:02.4 | addressing the Congress at the beginning of his term. Now, this points to a technicality, |
| 1:07.9 | and I notice that so many in the major media were very quick to underline this |
| 1:12.0 | technicality, what the president delivered last night was not a state of the union address. |
| 1:17.1 | That is a particular address, also at the invitation of Congress, and it is a constitutional |
| 1:22.8 | requirement. The president is to report from time to time on the state of the union. |
| 1:28.3 | Presidents have decided to make this over time a more and more public event. |
| 1:33.3 | George Washington sent a written communication to Congress. |
| 1:36.5 | By the time you get to the modern age, this has become a major television event. |
| 1:41.8 | And now, of course, you add social media to it. |
| 1:44.0 | More on that in just a moment. |
| 1:45.8 | So even as this was not officially, historically, a state of the union address, President Trump |
| 1:51.6 | will be expected to give the first and his second term of those addresses about this time next year. |
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