Wednesday, November 16, 2022
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 16 November 2022
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Summary
Part I (00:13 - 10:42)
These Elections Matters Massively But You Have No Vote: Who Will Become Speaker of the House, Senate Majority Leader, and President Pro Tempore?
Part II (10:42 - 20:11)
The Mormon Church Comes Out in Official Support of the Respect for Marriage Act — Big Theological Issues Are in Play Here, and History, Too
- Is the U.S. Senate really going to redefine marriage? by WORLD Opinions (R. Albert Mohler, Jr.)
Part III (20:11 - 24:29)
The Epimenides Paradox Arises Anew as the Two Most Powerful Spies in the World Meet Together — And That’s No Lie
- The C.I.A. Director Meets with His Russian Counterpart to Warn Against the Use of Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine. by New York Times (Jim Tankersley and Edward Wong)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, November 16, 2022. |
| 0:07.9 | I'm Albert Moller, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from |
| 0:12.4 | a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.2 | Well the elections are going to take place over the next few days. |
| 0:17.0 | You say, well, election day was last week. |
| 0:19.0 | Yes it was, and I'm not talking about counting votes. |
| 0:21.8 | I'm talking about the elections for leadership of the caucuses in the United States Congress, |
| 0:26.8 | because Christians often don't recognize how important those leadership elections actually |
| 0:32.1 | are. |
| 0:33.1 | When you're looking at the legislation that is passed or the legislation that is not passed, |
| 0:36.7 | a great deal has to do with who is leading the caucuses in the majority and in the minority |
| 0:42.8 | in both the House and the Senate. |
| 0:44.8 | First, let's look at the House of Representatives. |
| 0:46.9 | At this point, even President Biden is conceding that Republicans are almost certain to have |
| 0:52.2 | a majority. |
| 0:53.2 | Now it's going to be a very thin majority, and that's going to turn out to be crucial. |
| 0:56.8 | But nonetheless, the Republican caucus had its vote for its party leadership, and the |
| 1:02.8 | Republican caucus in the House elected or technically reelected Kevin McCarthy, US representative |
| 1:09.7 | from California and California's District 23 as the Republican leader going into the |
| 1:14.9 | new Congress. |
| 1:15.9 | And that would mean, or at least under normal circumstances, should mean that Kevin McCarthy, |
| 1:22.3 | even the Republican majority, would be the next speaker of the House of Representatives. |
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