Welcome to the Wall Builder Show.

This is the intersection of faith and culture.

I am Tim Barden.

I am the president of Wall Builders, joined by my father, David Barton, who is currently on the road.

I just got back in town.

We both were traveling this weekend.

And our third cohort, Rick Green, is also traveling this weekend.

But he also ended up losing his voice.

And so we told him he could rest as we are recording this program now and hopefully be

able to join us for the remainder of the week.

Dad, last week we were airing some programs that you had previously recorded from a series

we had done several years ago.

And so we really didn't talk about a lot of news that was happening.

But there's certainly been a few things that have caused some meltdown of the left.

And in fairness, I understand that the media needs something to run headlines on.

I understand that the Democrats want to distract from the shutdown and they want to

blame somebody else for it.

And so by default, sometimes things that they are making an issue, it's just because they

needed something to make an issue, not because it even makes sense to make this an issue,

such as a privately funded expansion of the White

House to make a ballroom large enough to have really nice events.

And they're saying, this is Trump wanting to do this to bolster his ego or to prove that

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