FIREWALL WITH LANCE WALLNAU - MAY 17TH, 2026

Summary

Podcast Summary: "FIREWALL WITH LANCE WALLNAU" – May 17, 2026

Main Theme & Purpose

In this episode of "Firewall with Lance Wallnau" on Real America’s Voice (May 17, 2026), host Lance Wallnau, along with producer Will Boone and guest Dr. Ben Carson, engages in an unfiltered discussion on pressing geopolitical events, shifting U.S. political and cultural dynamics, and America’s spiritual direction. The episode covers the Iran crisis, U.S.-China relations, the rise of anti-Israel sentiment, a new infectious disease, and the fragile state of American exceptionalism as the nation approaches its 250th anniversary. The show closes with an in-depth interview with Dr. Ben Carson, focusing on American history, civics education, and turning the tide on secular trends in youth culture.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Iran Crisis and Trump’s Approach

(02:42–10:59)

• Miscalculation of Trump by Iran:
  Wallnau and Boone analyze the Iranian strategy in the prolonged Strait of Hormuz closure, arguing that Iran is stalling in negotiations, banking on political and economic pressure from U.S. midterms and oil markets to force Trump's hand.

  “The Iranians...are miscalculating when it comes to our President… They were counting on all of that… so that the President would accept the deal that previously he would not. But President Trump is not going to do that.”
  —Will Boone (03:28)

• Human Shields & Negotiating with Extremists:
  Wallnau laments negotiating with Iran’s current leadership, likening them to “suicide bombers” who use population centers as human shields, rendering traditional political strategies ineffective.

  “How do you negotiate with a suicide bomber?... They're deliberately using the human shields everywhere they go of other people. That's a kind of a sick culture.”
  —Lance Wallnau (04:59)

• Trump’s Decision-Making & Uniqueness:
  Wallnau praises Trump’s unconventional transparency and unpredictability, describing his negotiation style as uniquely effective amidst current global threats.

  “He gets away with saying what no one else could say.”
  —Lance Wallnau (05:23)

• Iranian Counteroffers & Global Oil:
  Trump reportedly rejected Iranian demands that included U.S. acknowledgment of Iranian control over Hormuz, compensation, and lifting blockades. U.S. energy independence under Trump is cited as providing leverage but also underscores the broader effect of oil market disruptions.

  "According to Iranian state media...Tehran's counteroffer was...acknowledgment of Iranian sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, compensation...end of the US blockade...release of frozen Iranian assets..."
  —Lance Wallnau (06:52)

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2. U.S.-China Tensions and the High-Stakes Beijing Summit

(10:33–19:45)

• Global Leverage & Supply Chains:
  Wallnau details how China’s support sustains Iran via oil purchases and arms supplies, while the U.S. depends on China for rare earth minerals necessary for technology manufacturing.

  “We're codependent. It's like a bad marriage...two countries don't trust each other and they smile.”
  —Lance Wallnau (08:59)

• Upcoming Trump-Xi Summit:
  Trump is traveling to Beijing for a major summit amid geopolitical tension, with key U.S. CEOs (Elon Musk, Tim Cook, etc.) joining to address rare earth mineral supply issues.

  “Sounds like Trump is getting the tech CEO bro band back together. Elon Musk will be joining him in China... they're all going to be there with him in China trying to leverage some of these rare earth mineral trades.”
  —Will Boone (18:19)

• AI and Economic Competition:
  Wallnau highlights America’s dependence on rare earth magnets for everything from electric vehicles to AI, noting China’s suspension of exports as a major strategic move.

  “Everything from the, I guess, the Teslas and all of our electronic technology, including our AI, depends on these rare earth and magnet exports...”
  —Lance Wallnau (11:13)

• Biblical Analogies & Spiritual Framing:
  Wallnau frames the U.S.-China dynamic through spiritual and biblical language, seeing Trump as an unpredictable leader whose actions could be divinely directed.

  “May God give us...a decade of great awakening...We need to be strong because there are other nations...Their hope is that Donald Trump...will continue strong so that they can have religious liberty.”
  —Lance Wallnau (35:47–36:40)

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3. Shifting American Attitudes Toward Israel and Anti-Semitism

(19:47–26:54)

• Plummeting Confidence in Netanyahu:
  The broadcast features poll results showing sagging American confidence in Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, with age-based division inside both the Democratic and Republican parties.

  “In 2023, the not confident percentage was 42. Up significantly...now the majority of Americans say they are not confident when it comes to Bibi Netanyahu and world affairs.”
  —News Analyst (19:48)

• Rise of Anti-Semitism & Generational Gaps:
  Wallnau connects cultural figures like Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens to what he perceives as an ascendant anti-Jewish sentiment among the under-50 American right, warning of similar trends in the left.

  “Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, even my friend Steve Bannon...influence with your anti-Semitic Jew hate. And it does come out. It leaks out sideways from every orifice.”
  —Lance Wallnau (21:14)

• History Repeats: From Jews to Christians:
  Via a post from Rep. Randy Fine, Wallnau and Boone warn that hatred directed at Jews often presages future attacks on Christians, referencing the “Saturday people/Sunday people” motif.

  "There's a famous flag...Today we come for the Saturday people. Tomorrow we come for the Sunday people, referring to the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian tradition.”
  —Will Boone quoting Rep. Randy Fine (24:07)

• Christian Decline in Middle Eastern States:
  Boone reads from "Insurrection Barbie," highlighting a pattern of former Christian-majority nations in the Middle East becoming Muslim-dominated, with Israel being the sole exception where the Christian population is growing.

  “There's only one country in the Middle East where the Christian population has grown and that country is Israel.”
  —Will Boone (25:03)

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4. Cultural Tension & Domestic Divides

(26:54–29:47)

• Muslim-Only Waterpark Event & American Reactions:
  Wallnau and Boone discuss a controversial Dallas waterpark event initially billed as "Muslim Only," reflecting cultural and religious tensions in modern American communities and media framing.
• Election Updates & Texas Politics:
  Brief mention of Dallas mayoral race odds and redistricting developments, with Wallnau foreshadowing future analysis due to time constraints.

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5. The Hantavirus Outbreak: New Fears, Old Playbooks

(30:54–35:37)

• Origin Story & Parallels to COVID-19:
  Will Boone describes the hantavirus outbreak originating from bird-watching Dutch tourists at an Argentine landfill, drawing parallels to the Wuhan COVID origin discourse.

  "Who bird watches at a landfill in Argentina?... Sounds like the bat with the wet market and Wuhan and China with COVID. It's all getting fishy."
  —Will Boone (31:38)

• Pharmaceutical Industry Skepticism:
  Wallnau expresses doubt about the motives of drug companies like Moderna as they rapidly develop a hantavirus vaccine, alluding to profit-driven motives reminiscent of COVID-era distrust.

  “Is anyone other than me suspicious about the enthusiasm of pharmaceuticals to vaccinate people and develop these vaccines?”
  —Lance Wallnau (33:33)

• Calls for Critical Scrutiny:
  Wallnau floats RFK Jr. as the only public figure likely to apply “rigorous” skepticism to new public health measures.

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6. America at a Crossroads: Civic, Spiritual, and Cultural Renewal

(35:37–42:44)

• American Exceptionalism and Historical Reflection:
  Wallnau recounts Franklin’s “rising or setting sun” parable and expresses concern that America’s 250th anniversary may mark a downhill turn absent a spiritual awakening and national rededication to God.

  “Franklin...wondered, is the sun rising or setting on our experiment? Because the experiment won't last long if we don't get our act together. And then he called for prayer every day.”
  —Lance Wallnau (35:37)

• Presidential Leadership and Prayer:
  Wallnau frames Trump’s call for national rededication as a critical spiritual moment, urging collective prayer for enduring grace, renewal, and global Christian liberty.

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7. Dr. Ben Carson Interview: Culture, History, and the Next Generation

(42:44–53:40)

America’s Condition & Cause for Hope

(42:46–44:35)

• Carson notes that America’s rapid ascent was fueled by faith and shared values. While recognizing America’s imperfections, he counters the left’s focus on slavery, noting that unlike other nations, America fought a brutal war to abolish it.

  “We went from a ragtag bunch of militiamen to the pinnacle of the world in record time. That was not a coincidence. That was because our founding document says our rights come from our Creator.”
  —Dr. Ben Carson (43:15)

• Carson expresses hope in a resurgence of spirituality among young men, seeing signs of generational repentance and return.

Marxism & The Attack on the American Family

(45:16–47:40)

• Carson draws upon the 1963 Congressional Record’s “45 Goals of Communism,” claiming many current societal trends (education, media, sexuality) were orchestrated decades ago to undermine American faith and family.

  “Most of the stuff that you see happening right now was planned, such as taking over our school systems...making sexual perversion normal, natural and healthy...”
  —Dr. Ben Carson (46:16)

Education, Patriotism, and Addressing Propaganda

(47:40–53:40)

• Both highlight the negative impact of higher education and challenge the narrative that America’s founders were mere Enlightenment deists.

• Carson says his new children’s book, Built on Faith, directly refutes those claims, showing the spiritual roots of America through stories of the Founders.

  “Anybody who really studies this in depth and looks at some of the letters from our founders know that they were not deists. But the propaganda mill is alive and well.”
  —Dr. Ben Carson (48:27)

• Carson discusses Madison’s pivotal role in crafting constitutional checks and balances and emphasizes the importance of instilling pride and nuanced understanding of U.S. history in children.

  “To be patriotic, you have to be proud of your country. You have to love your country, not hate your country. And that's what we're seeing inculcated into the young people now...”
  —Dr. Ben Carson (52:20)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Iran:
  “How do you negotiate with a suicide bomber?... They're deliberately using the human shields everywhere they go of other people...”
  —Lance Wallnau (04:59)

• On Anti-Semitism:
  “...anti-Semitic Jew hate. And it does come out. It leaks out sideways from every orifice...”
  —Lance Wallnau (21:14)

• On America's Crisis:
  “Franklin...wondered, is the sun rising or setting on our experiment?...He called for prayer every day.”
  —Lance Wallnau (35:37)

• On Marxist Strategy:
  "Most of the Stuff that you see happening right now was planned, such as taking over our school systems and teacher unions, filling them with Marxists...”
  —Dr. Ben Carson (46:16)

• On American History:
  “Anybody who really studies this in depth...know that they were not deists. But the propaganda mill is alive and well.”
  —Dr. Ben Carson (48:27)

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Key Timestamps for Important Segments

• 02:42 – Beginning of substantive discussion (Iran, Trump, geopolitics)
• 03:28 – Will Boone’s assessment of Iran’s strategy
• 04:59 – Wallnau’s treatise on Iran’s negotiating tactics
• 10:33 – Analysis of Trump’s China negotiations and rare minerals
• 18:19 – Tech CEOs joining Trump in Beijing
• 19:48 – Deep dive on declining confidence in Netanyahu
• 24:07 – Explanation of the “Saturday people, Sunday people” warning
• 30:54 – Hantavirus outbreak origin story
• 33:33 – Wallnau’s critique of pharmaceutical motives
• 35:37 – Franklin’s “rising or setting sun” parable and prayer call
• 42:44 – Dr. Ben Carson interview begins
• 43:15 – Carson on America’s founding and faith
• 46:16 – Communist “45 goals” and cultural trends
• 48:27 – Deism vs. faith debate about the Founders
• 52:20 – Instilling pride and nuance in civic education

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Final Thoughts

This episode of "Firewall" is a sweeping, fast-paced ride through world and national crises, cultural transformations, public health anxieties, and profound concerns about America's trajectory. Lance Wallnau and his guests highlight the urgent intersection of faith, politics, and identity, urging prayerful vigilance and engagement as the country approaches a historic anniversary. The interview with Dr. Ben Carson closes the episode with a call to reclaim foundational American values for the next generation through truthful, faith-centered education.

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For listeners:
This summary covers all major segments and insights, including timestamps, notable quotes, and context for the show’s tone and content. Ads and non-content sections have been omitted for clarity.

Transcript

[Lance Wallnau]

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[Lance Wallnau]

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[Lance Wallnau]

Download TikTok and check it out. All right, so you know what's going on with this Iran situation. You got that? General Jack Keane. I like how he's always talking. It's like from central casting. If I did a movie, he'd be the guy put in that role. Let's see. Larry Kudlow and him are talking. I just watched this. It summarizes the situation. They're miscalculating Trump again. Watch this. I just don't believe President Trump's gonna fall for all this stringing along business. I don't believe it, sir.

[Will Boone]

Yeah, I totally agree with you. I mean, the Iranians once again are miscalculating when it comes to our President. I mean, clearly they got something they did want. I mean, they closed down the Straits of Hormuz. What purpose was that? To stop the war. And the President saw it as an opportunity to go into negotiations. And then the Iranians objective of the negotiations is just as accurately as you just stated, was to drag this thing out, believing time is on their side here. And the pressure on the President would grow in terms of political pressure, with the midterms coming, economic pressure, obviously with oil prices and its residual impact on our economy. They were counting on all of that, certainly to create that kind of pressure environment so that the President would accept the deal that previously he would not. But President Trump is not going to do that. I mean, he is steadfast in not accepting a deal that's not in our interests. And after all, we have all the leverage here. We have a blockade and we have the threat of going back into combat operations. And I think the meeting in the White House yesterday was likely about that. Where are we now and how do we assess this situation? Where do we think the Iranians are? And I, I am assuming that the President's assessment is that he's leaning towards going back to conduct combat operations. It makes the most sense.

[Lance Wallnau]

Yeah. This is, you know, I'm telling you, when I say pray, I mean there's no solution. These people are suicide bombers. How do you negotiate with a suicide bomber? They're willing to blow up the bus. See, they're, they're, they're right in the midst of Tehran. They're with the population center. They're having all their meetings and gatherings surrounded by civilians. So Israel, the United States, they know where they are. You know, they can't target them because they're deliberately using the human shields everywhere they go of other people. That's a kind of a sick culture. So it's not a normal kind of government like you can negotiate with, that cares about the population. So Trump could, what, take out the bridges, take out the electric power? Who's that going to. It's 90 million people suffering under this regime. All right? But you know what I love about Donald Trump? If you have to have somebody in the White House right now, oh, I'm gonna miss this, cuz, you know, I don't care who it is. J.D. vance, Marco, Rubio, they're never gonna talk like Trump and reveal what they're. They're too smart. Trump's kind of like, he's smart in a different way. He gets away with saying what no one else could say. So let's hear what. What does he have to say? Go to cut nine.

[Will Boone]

For the time being, the ceasefire remains in place.

[Lance Wallnau]

It's unbelievably weak. I would say, I would call it

[Will Boone]

the weakest right now.

[Lance Wallnau]

After reading that piece of garbage.

[Will Boone]

They said, I didn't even finish reading it.

[Lance Wallnau]

They said, I'm not going to waste my time reading it.

[Will Boone]

I would say it's one of the weakest right now. It's on life support.

[Lance Wallnau]

They understand.

[Will Boone]

These are all medical people, Dr. Oz,

[Lance Wallnau]

life support is not a good thing. Do you agree, Diagnostic?

[Will Boone]

I would say the ceasefire is on massive life support, where the doctor walks in and says, sir, your loved one

[Dr. Ben Carson]

has approximately a 1% chance of living.

[Lance Wallnau]

It's a piece of garbage. This is Trump reading their proposal. I didn't even finish it. You know, I got some medical people here. It's like a 1% chance of survival. But what did they want? Well, let me tell you a little bit about what they asked for. You know, I'm looking kind of Iranian, don't you think, Will, with my dark eyebrows? I know something. I got gray beard, gray hair and dark eyebrows. It's kind of like Iranian. You ever notice those guys, the Persians, they got the gray everywhere and dark eyebrows. Yep. I mean, kind of a mystery to me why my eyebrows didn't gray with everything else. Anyway, be that as it may, according to Iranian state media, Tehran's counteroffer was, what was the garbage? What's the problem here? Well, all they said was they want the President of the United States to acknowledge Iranian sovereignty over the entire Strait of Hormuz. Compensation for all the damages and emotional trauma he's inflicted on them. An entire end of the US blockade of all Iranian ports. The release of frozen Iranian assets anywhere where they're frozen, and I guess a year's supply of free Starbucks. I don't know, what else can they ask for? The context is worth mentioning. On air, the Strait of Hormuz has now been closed now for 10 straight weeks. Saudi Aramco CEO warned analysts Monday that even if it reopened today, it's going to take months for the oil markets to come back. Now, the United States is in a fortunate place because Donald Trump has made us, took us out of Biden's and the left wing environmentalist self imposed lunacy of having no energy independence. And now we're absolutely energy independent. And with Venezuela, we're now one of the largest exporters of oil in the world. We're like Saudi Arabia ourselves. But while it doesn't hurt us here, we have to work with the global market and that oil price goes up globally, it affects all manufacturing and all global trade. Trump wants to solve the problem, but he's gonna go to Beijing. He's gonna do it by going. Trump is gonna go meet with the Dragon's lair over there in China. Now the Dragon, which is the big principality behind supporting the evil of the regime, you understand how this works. 90% of the, like the, they're dependent on Iran for their oil and so they, in a sense Trump has a card because if he hits the oil infrastructure there in Iran, it's going to immediately affect China. So you know, Trump isn't doing that because he's dependent on China for rare earth minerals and various other things. And we're too global. I mean we're two, we're like two, we have, we are, we're codependent. It's like a bad marriage. We need each other to stay alive for the kids sake. The economy. Two countries don't trust each other and they smile. The Bible talks about in the book of Daniel, two kings that are sitting at a table, you know, negotiating like they're friends, but their hearts are not with each other. But you know, Trump is, Trump's talking about my good friend and she's smiling away while they're meeting. But China wants to destroy us and so that's the fentanyl they're bringing to the United States, the fake votes. Who knows how many came in through the borders, who knows what's in the country right now. But the fact of the matter is In Iran, they fund them so that they can support Hezbollah and Hamas and the Houthis and destabilize the region and create the K. And so China's funding that and they're helping them with weapons, too. We grabbed one of their ships and we got ahold of their cargo, found out that they were funding. They're giving them all these weapons and technology. Well, what do you think of that, Will?

[Will Boone]

I'm just really interested to see what comes out of the meeting because, I mean, Trump just had the, he had that tariff kind of blocked by the Supreme Court on China. So he's, I don't know how much leverage he's going to have going over to China.

[Lance Wallnau]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[Will Boone]

I don't know what's going to come out of the meeting.

[Lance Wallnau]

Court decision there's taking away his card anyway. There's so much you gave me here to talk about. You don't have anything on China. I'm gonna talk to you about China. He's gonna be over there right now. He's flying on his way over there. He's here for the 15th, 16th, because we're doing, rededicating the country. Isn't it on the 18th? So he's gonna be with China, President Xi, and doing this big summit in Beijing, huge geopolitical week. The summit agenda spans trade, semiconductors, rare earth export controls, Taiwan and the Iran war. So what Trump's gonna do is, you know what he did, like with Korea, he's gonna say, what do you want? You know, you got me over a barrel here. I need you to put pressure on Iran. And she's gonna go, well, if we could have some relief with these things here and you know, let me tell you something, China's dangerous. China is in the power position along with these terrorist states right now because they control the one, the one influence that can make Iran back off. If China says chill, give him what he wants. You know, it's an opportunity for them to get that strait opened up because they're working up there, they're working on their back supply of oil right now because the Strait of Hormuz has been tightened up. But anyway, what I'm trying to tell you is that Washington has accused Beijing of running large scale operations to steal America. They steal everything. We got American AI technology. China recently surrendered rare earth and magnet. Suspended rare earth and magnet exports. Yeah, okay, so what they're doing to the magnets is entirely indispensable for everything from the, the, I guess the Teslas and all of Our electronic technology, including our AI, depends on these rare earth and magnet exports snarling the auto supply chains in Europe, Japan, South Korea. I know this doesn't, this might be a little complicated for the average person out there, but you need. I'm going to tell you what one of my board members told me one time discussing corporate structures. He said, you're going to have to get more sophisticated, Lance, which means that you may not like these subjects about capital markets and economics, but brother, sister, you know, the moment that you start doing, you know, not having food or water or gas or oil or it's cold or it's hot and you can't heat your house or cool it, you'll find out how practical the supply chain is. And right now, China was able while men slept. Like the Bible talks about, the enemy came and planted things while men slept. China scooped up contracts with Africa and these various parts around the world in order to get a corner on those markets. Rare earth minerals. And now Trump is out there. He's good though. If you ever had to have a Wile E. Coyote or a roadrunner that's dealing with the coyote, you want Trump. Right now, he's looking across the table at Xi and he knows every leverage point he's got and he'll play every leverage point and he'll be smooth about it and he'll know when to be tough and he'll know when not to be tough. And I'll tell you something that Xi knows about Trump. He knows that this guy is unpredictable. They think it got him red, but they also know he gotta be a little careful with him. You know, he's, he's, he's temperamental. So I pray, I pray that Trump plays that Scottish hot blood. He has hot blood. Kim Clement prophesied he has hot blood. Yes, he does. And I pray that his hot blood shows itself at the right time and that he, he knows exactly, that God will show him exactly where the leverage point is, the pain point, is that China's negotiating point, their fault line. He'll put his finger right on it. That's the President. Why? Because God's given us grace to have a leader that right now is the right man at the right time, providentially. And when we come back, I got some news for you. We got to cover about this situation. We'll be right back.

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[Lance Wallnau]

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[Will Boone]

So, sounds like Trump is getting the, the tech CEO bro band back together. Elon Musk will be joining him in China. Tim Cook from Apple, the Boeing CEO, Qualcomm, Nvidia, all these tech giants, they're all going to be there with him in China trying to leverage some of these rare earth mineral trades.

[Lance Wallnau]

Oh, interesting. Interesting. What, what, what could that possibly mean? I mean, it's not just the rare earth deals. It's, I mean, it's Elon, you wonder. There's also leverage there. He's bringing the A team for the AI competition. And you know, he made China, he made Apple pull out of China. You know, Trump did it cost him a lot of money because China was making, he might just be saying, you know, I could, I could go a little easier there on the ramp. Remember you guys used to do business, right? Oh, yeah. You like the business? Oh, yes, very much so. Yeah, I think we could work something out. I mean, you watch what comes out of here. Telling you the guy's dumb like a fox and the right guy. You want. He's dealing with the mob, he's dealing with the mafia. He's in his, he's in Queens again negotiating with the, with the Teamsters. He's up to this. Nobody knows how to negotiate like I do. He says he's right. All right. Meanwhile, here's some news which isn't news. Would you play video cut 10?

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Look at this.

[News Analyst]

Americans say they are not confident when it comes to Netanyahu and world affairs. Look at this. In 2023, the not confident percentage was 42. Up significantly. Up like a rocket. Up to 59%. That's a nearly 20 point movement in just three years time. And now the majority of Americans say they are not confident when it comes to Bibi Netanyahu and world affairs. And we're not just talking Democrats here, we're talking the entire American public, nearly three in five. Look at this. Among Democrats under the age of 50, it's 73%. But look at this. Look among Democrats 50 years and older, it's actually larger. It's 81%. And both of these numbers are up significantly from they were where they were in 2023. But it's actually older Democrats leading the charge, many of whom are not. Are not on social media. Look among Republicans, because here there is a massive age split. And look at this. Republicans were not confident. Bibihu. Look at this. Younger Republicans, nearly three in five. We're talking 58% compared to 30% of Republicans who are 50 and older. This, to me, is so fascinating because there is a massive age split within the Republican Party when it comes to Bibi Netanyahu and when it comes, of course, to Israel as well. And this, to me, is going to be very interesting in the years to come, especially as we enter the 2028 primary season where we're seeing this massive flip within the Republican Party on Israel. And is there going to be a candidate who comes out here and says, you know, maybe we want to do a split and tries to appeal to younger Republicans?

[Lance Wallnau]

Well, does it surprise you? I'm not surprised. Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, even my friend Steve Bannon, you have all got an audience that you influence with your anti Semitic Jew hate. And it does come out. It leaks out sideways from every orifice. Not surprising. Not surprising also, that the firewall is the over 50 baby boomer who actually grew up with a theology that somehow distantly remembered that Jesus was Jewish. All right, so I'm sorry to see that under 50. That tells me that barring some kind of a real great awakening, other than just kind of a sentimental shift to the right, conservative style, America will betray Israel. And by the way, that's the end of this great noble experiment that's living on, let's just say borrowed grace right now. The grace of God on this country. It's still on this country. But the Jew hatred's a real thing. I mean, doesn't surprise me. Netanyahu becomes the lightning rod. It ain't gotta stop with him. It's gonna be Jew hatred after that. Do you know why? Because they're gonna come after the Christians. Don't you know, this really shook me up once the Bible says the pattern is to the Jew first and then to the Gentile. I used to think, well, the gospel goes to the Jew first. You know, da, da, da, da, da. And then I was Reading some commentators, they said, oh, no, the pattern is that the first thing goes to the Jew is the good news, and then the first thing that comes to the Jew is the judgment, and then the Gentiles follow. See, the Jewish people would be driven to the point where the only hope they have is Jesus, because the United States won't be there anymore. I don't want to be in the United States when God's no longer your divine protection in the United States. I mean, after all, isn't that why Trump is over there right now? Because they want to send a nuclear weapon over your city? They want go watch the Netflix series Chernobyl. You want to have a meltdown? Just watch it. That's just a small nuclear experiment. You watch what happens when Trump knows again, he knows the horrors of a nuclear holocaust, but that's what the devil wants to release on the earth. He wants to release it on the United States. He wants to release it on Tel Aviv. So I want you to take a look at this. Bring up that little. Here, you read it for me, will you? I posted this last night to the Jew first. And after that. Is that a Lance Wall now post? Go to X, by the way, this is where I do my most incendiary content. Elon's the only person that can handle me. I mutate everything else for YouTube and for Facebook because I don't want to be deplatformed. When, you know, the pendulum swings. Go ahead, read what it says to the Jew first.

[Will Boone]

And after that, you both the gospel and persecution. Follow this sequence in comments. On Thursday night's episode of Washington Watch, representative Randy Fine from Florida, who is Jewish, warned that the left wing activists who frequently target Jewish people will soon turn to targeting Christians. They hate Jews, but they hate Christians, too. They hate Western values. And Jews are simply seen as an easy target because there aren't many of us, the congressman said, noting that there are fewer Jewish people globally than there are people who live in Beijing, China. But make no mistake, the people who are calling for damage to Jews, when they're done with us, they're coming for the Christian community, he warned. There's a famous flag that they like to fly that says, today we come for the Saturday people. Tomorrow we come for the Sunday people, referring to the Jewish Sabbath and the Christian tradition of, of celebrating Christ's resurrection on Sundays. That's something that everyone needs to keep in mind.

[Lance Wallnau]

Today we come for the Saturday people. So Jew, tomorrow we're coming for the Sunday people. That's Christian. I'll tell you what? You know what? Buyer beware. You're in America here. And then Insurrection Barbie, which is an interesting post. I like Insurrection Barbie. She writes some intelligent stuff. The following were all Christian nations at one time. Turkey. Did you know Turkey was Christian? Hey, the seven churches in the book of Revelation are all in Turkey. Egypt, Syria was once a Christian nation. Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and even Palestine, Libya, North Africa and the Sudan. They're all now Muslim majority nations where Christians make up 10% or less of the population. I want you to if you could read that again, it would shock you because those are Muslim majority nations that were once Christian. There's only one country in the Middle east where the Christian population has grown and that country is Israel. Only one country. All those Jew haters. One country where the Christian population has been allowed to grow or to have services or flourish in spite of all the spin you're seeing about how Jews hate Jesus. This isn't an apt opinion or it's a fact. So please tell me some more about that Greater Israel project where these 7 million or 8 million people plan on taking over the entire Middle East. Nut jobs. By the way, I don't want to go off on a tangent with only 3 minutes and 24 seconds left, but what is this? I'm looking at? I'm looking at some kind of advertising for a water park event here in Dallas. And in Dallas it was. The flyer literally says Muslims only. So there was going to be a water park event for Muslims only. Put the graphic up. What do we got here? I know we got a zero in on this thing.

[Will Boone]

There were three versions of this flyer that were put out. And so they. Apparently they've been doing this event for a few years, but we're just recently

[Lance Wallnau]

starting to really, we're noticing the Muslim threat with the 300 acres in EPIC, Texas where they're building their. Their apostolic base for the Seven Mountain Dominion is takeover of. Why do I know about it? Yes, I do, because I get accused of this stuff and I don't even have 300 acres with a Christian compound for taking over Dallas. They do.

[Will Boone]

Right? So this was their event that they've been doing for a few years for Eid, I think is how you say it. And so it was supposed to be a Muslim only event at this water park where they could celebrate with the rest of their people. And obviously Texans aren't too fond of that right now. And so then they changed their flyer from saying Muslim only event to modest dress only event to try to be more inclusive.

[Lance Wallnau]

Well, they just should have said no Christians and Jews. That would have been a little easier. But then, of course, worse than that, it's bikinis. So a Christian in a Jew in a bikini would be the ultimate sacrilege. Anyway, the organizer at Texas Muslim Only water park event runs a misspell. Don't tell me they have a leering center also. Is that a joke?

[Will Boone]

It's all connected.

[Lance Wallnau]

Is that a joke for real? You guys watching that Spencer Pratt thing? We have 39 seconds. This guy, he's running for mayor. Do you guys think he has a possibility of even possibly getting elected for mayor out there? Is that thing so rigged and messed up?

[Will Boone]

He's doing well so far. He's at about a 30% chance, I think. So they can get a runoff. The voting is like, in June. If no one gets over 50%, then they'll go to a runoff. And so we're kind of hoping it'll be less than 50% and then we can maybe have versus this guy.

[Lance Wallnau]

You know, the number one story I should have been covering all day, I got off on the vine because you were telling me it was all rat poop. So I'm discovering cruises, which really concerns me. But listen, I'm running out of time here. Here's the deal. This redistricting thing is the most important, the most significant, huge development. Do you guys understand what's happened? You don't know the backstory. I've got the backstory here, but I'm out of time. I'm out of time. Time, my friends, is always moving. Anyway, we gotta stop the show. I'll be back again tomorrow, but I want to talk to you because we have a possibility of picking up like 10, 11 seat, maybe an 8 seat margin. This is so amazing. This is incredible. This is like. Stop the presses. This is a whistle. The Trump train just jumped the track and has a speed lane going on towards eight additional seats. The left is in a total collapse. We have to cover this again. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we have important news we gotta cover today. I mean, all kinds of important things. Stuff's happening right now that you probably don't know about. I'm wearing a leather jacket because my studio crew likes living in refrigerated conditions. So I went out to my car and got a coat. That's the reason people want to know why Lance's got scarfs and things on the set. TV studios do that. I don't know how to keep the equipment cold or cool or whatever, but I have with me Will. Will Boone. Normally, in the back producing along with Chelsea. But I grabbed him. I said, will, come on out. You know why? Because Will's one of those guys that. He says, hey, did you hear about the origin of the hantavirus? Right before we're going on, we're about to do a countdown, you know, three, two, one. He goes, hey, did you hear about the origin? So I said, sit down in the director's seat over here and explain to the audience what you found out. And listen, you gotta double check Will's facts. I just know this because, you know, I know he's given us the best facts he's got. But every now and then, it's online. It's like, Alex Jones. I'm. All right. All right, check it out. All right, what are you telling us now?

[Will Boone]

Okay, so basically, this cruise ship where the Hunter virus, the current outbreak is happening, left from Argentina. A few days afterwards, there was a Dutch couple that came down with. With the virus.

[Lance Wallnau]

A Dutch couple.

[Will Boone]

They were apparently bird watching at a landfill. Days before the cruise ship left in Argentina. They contract the virus. It spreads through the cruise ship. Now we're at where we are now. The Americans that were on the cruise ship are back. They're now quarantining in Nebraska, going through all the process of that.

[Lance Wallnau]

But in Nebraska.

[Will Boone]

Yeah, there's a. There's like a quarantine center in like the quarantine.

[Lance Wallnau]

I was going to say. I don't know that it's a port anywhere. No, no, no.

[Will Boone]

They flew them into Nebraska.

[Lance Wallnau]

They just cruised right up to Nebraska.

[Will Boone]

And so my question is just who bird watches at a landfill in Argentina? To get well.

[Lance Wallnau]

Yeah.

[Will Boone]

And so the only reason, the only way to contract this virus is with. Through rat feces, whether you're ingested somehow handling it. So that's how they would do that at the landfill. But why are you bird watching at a landfill? Sounds like the bat with the wet market and Wuhan and China with COVID It's just all getting fishy. We're all getting triggered. Again, not a fan.

[Lance Wallnau]

Oh, my gosh. You know the. So basically. But. But they're getting this thing down to rat. Rat poop.

[Will Boone]

Yeah. So the virus has been around for a while and that's why Trump is saying like, hey, guys, we're not really worried because we've. We've been handled this before. There's been smaller outbreaks, but I think just with everyone having PTSD from COVID this is really triggering everybody and kind of hitting a lot closer to home because it's Only been what, six years at this point?

[Lance Wallnau]

Well, to your point, I just want to say the Argentine government's leading hypothesis is that the couple contracted. The couple contracted the virus during a bird watching outing on Ushua, according to two investigators who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to brief the media. But they said that the footsteps through the forested hillsides of Patagonia. So it's an exotic story with these things. Meanwhile, who, the World Health Organization is just beside itself with, you know, we'll get the United States back in. Let's all get back in again into circumstances that so. So here's the interesting thing. I'm reading some news today and in the news about the markets, you know, so I'm looking at the markets, capital markets, I got. I do that every now and then. Where's my. Where's my. And I'm reading. Did you guys print out what I sent you today on my notes?

[Will Boone]

I printed it.

[Lance Wallnau]

Oh, the big story. Here we go. So Moderna is up 7.5% because they're developing a hantavirus vaccine ahead of their expected next level of the outbreak. Isn't it encouraging to know that the pharmaceutical companies are working on a vaccine? The timeline is that they will especially design to help any of you that contract the next. Is anyone other than me suspicious about the enthusiasm of pharmaceuticals to vaccinate people and develop these vaccines? And, you know, I know some people, some of my rich friends feel a little conflicted because they know these companies are scoundrels, but they're invested in them because they make money. This is kind of an interesting conundrum there, don't you think? Ethically, 7.5%. But they're developing that Honda virus vaccine ahead of schedule, keeping their fingers crossed, hoping it's a real pandemic. What a weird profession that must be. In the meantime, here's what I'm going to tell you. Don't, I don't think. I don't think, first of all, pharmaceuticals or the CDC or the World Health Organization have any more credibility right now than the news media, which is giving you this report. So where do we go? This is the big question. What do you do? If there was an outbreak of something, it'd be really unfortunate because I don't know, I mean, I think Robert Kennedy probably is the only guy, because he's a vaccine skeptic. The only guy that I'd say, thank God he's there because he put it to the. He'd give it a rigorous test as to Whether or not it's something worth paying attention to. Now, I got something coming up. I'm gonna be doing an interview with Dr. Ben Carson. Dr. Ben Carson coming up in a minute. And that's gonna be interesting because he's got. He's talking about, we gotta get to our kids. We have to get to our kids. The education about America. We're at the 250th anniversary. This weekend is gonna be a big thing up there, you know, in Washington.

[Will Boone]

Are you going?

[Lance Wallnau]

And I'm gonna go. I mean, I'm not speaking and, you know, but it's the usual suspects. People you'll know, like Metaxas, Jack Graham Franklin, Jensen. Franklin. Benjamin Franklin. But I'm gonna go support my brothers and sisters. I think Paula will probably be saying something. And the main thing, Lou Engel, by the way, is also speaking. Believe it or not, they got a Charismaniac up there. So what's interesting to me is that we're at the 250th anniversary of the founding. And I remember that line where Benjamin Franklin was in the Congressional hall as they were debating vigorously about whether or not they were going to have a constitution. If we can get all the 13 colonies on the same page, what they were going to do. And he said that he noticed that there was a chair that somebody was sitting on. Maybe it was Washington, and that it had. It was a chair. But above, the high point of the chair had a sun. And it looked like it was, you know, like rising or setting on the horizon over an ocean. He said, every day I stare at that and I look at it and I wonder, is the sun rising or setting on our experiment? Because the experiment won't last long if we don't get our act together. And then he called for prayer every day until they could. Until they could sort out their differences. That was Franklin, a call for prayer. Anyway, I wonder if at the 250th anniversary, if it isn't potentially the setting of the sun, kind of a bookend. This is the 250 years of the American greatness. And then. But I'm hoping that is not the case for one reason. Obviously, I'm an American. Obviously, I don't want to see my children and grandchildren and my friends and my nation go into decline. I'm hoping because as a Christian, I see the nations. I believe. And this is a very important part of our broadcast today. I believe we should be praying for the success of this president against. I know the devil hates him. I know everyone who's got devils, hates him. I know people are picking up devils the more they hate him. I'm observing that. I've seen people that didn't have devils pick up some new devils just because they hate him so much. But the guy is. He needs to be covered in prayer right now. He's the one who suggested we rededicate our country to God. And that fills me with hope. He's not some blithering fool up there. He's saying, we need God, and on the 17th, we're going to rededicate the country to God. That gives me hope. We had that day of reading the Bible, the whole Bible everybody was reading, including the president. I have hope because when you open the door for God, God shows up and there can be an extension of grace. May God give us. I mean, perhaps a decade, a decade of great awakening. I'll tell you why. It's the nations, not just the United States. The United States is like. I think we're, like, overdue for some divine discipline. But God help us. We don't want the divine discipline to be the judgment of these Philistines on the left ruling the country. May God have mercy on us. We need to be strong because there are other nations. Do you know how many other nations have persecution of Christians? How many other nations. The Christians live in fear? And their hope is that Donald Trump, as the President of the United States, will continue strong so that they can have religious liberty. There are nations that need to hear. Cuba, Venezuela. Trump's opening these places up. What about Iran? Lord, we pray for your mercy upon Iran. We pray that you will deliver Those people, those 90 million, 80 million people, from the tyranny and the suppression and the fear of a clerical regime that would, like Hamas, sacrifice the citizens on the altar of their own lust for power, ideologic revenge in the Middle East. Lord, I pray you will uproot that evil. You will go to the very den where the vipers are, and you will. And you will drive them out of their hiding. I don't know how you're going to do it, Lord. It's beyond our wisdom now. The president doesn't have a solution for this, but, Lord God, our eyes turn towards you. And as we cry out for mercy, we pray for Iran, for a move of God of the Holy Ghost in the Middle east, for the Gospel of Jesus to be preached boldly and powerfully and publicly displayed in Egypt and in Saudi Arabia and in the Arab oil emirates and even in Jerusalem, in Syria, in Iran, in Iraq. May there be a moment Lord, when this highway opens up for a highway of the Lord, that the gospel will be proclaimed in that territory. May a harvest come in, even in China. Lord, as the president goes to China, we pray for your hand to be upon him, that he'll have wisdom and that circumstances will mold in such a way that China will be instrumental in bringing an end to the conflict in Iran. But, Lord, not a compromise with the devil, but an uprooting. We pray, oh, Father, in Jesus name, you who control the rising of the sun and the going down of the same, we pray that your hand would be upon the rulers in this country, that you will give them wisdom, you will give them counsel, you will grant them the grace to make the right decision to turn left or turn right by the wisdom of your spirit. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Now, I'm praying for everyone out there listening to me. I pray for all of you. This virus, I pray, Lord, that you will crush it right now, that it will go no further, that it will be. It'll dissipate, It'll dissipate. It will not have power, nor shall there be fear, paralysis coming to people that are hearing these reports. But I pray for new boldness, new confidence and new faith in Jesus name. Well, that might be the most many of you have prayed all week, but let's start the week off right. And we'll be right back with Dr. Ben Carson. All right, ladies and gentlemen, we're back here on the Lance Wildaus show. And I promise you I was gonna have Dr. Ben Carson with us. You know, it's nice about my audience. As you already know, this is a man who grew up with a single mom. I believe in Detroit in the inner city. Statistically, you know, he should not have ended up where he did. Somehow the grace of God or something happened to him. He ended up becoming a celebrated brain surgeon performing surgeries that had never been done on human beings. And then we found out that he had political aspirations. And I have friends of mine that were involved with his run for president and he's been serving in government since then. So, Dr. Carson, please come join us. Good to see you.

[Dr. Ben Carson]

Good to be with you again. Thank you.

[Lance Wallnau]

All right, now, so here's my question. We got the 250th anniversary of the country. I'm going to go up to Washington D.C. this weekend. I'm supporting it. This is. This is kind of a moment to try to rekindle something in the United States. How do you see the condition of America right now? Spiritually? I Mean, I'm obviously evangelical and I worry about what's going on, but I have also cause for hope. What's your perspective?

[Dr. Ben Carson]

Well, you know, we went from a ragtag bunch of militiament to the pinnacle of the world in record time. That was not a coincidence. That was because, you know, our founding document says that our rights come from our Creator and we have beliefs about human dignity that helped to guide us along the way. Were we perfect? No, we were not. But we did a pretty darn good job. Some people say, yeah, but America had slavery. Well, so did everybody else. There's no civilization that has had to deal with it. The thing about America that's unique is that we had so many people who were against it that we fought a bloody civil war to get rid of it. But, you know, here's the problem. Now we're allowing ourselves to become a very secular community. Everybody determines themselves what's right and what's wrong, rather than having guiding principles. Now, I see that changing, particularly with our young men. They're starting to realize the path that we were on is not a good path, not leading to a good situation for anybody. And we're starting to see them returning to spirituality in droves. I think this is very, very encouraging, but sometimes it's darkest before the dawn.

[Lance Wallnau]

I like what you're saying. And you know what's interesting to me about that is I teach about seven mountains of culture because to me, they're under the influence of wisdom or foolishness, darkness or. And so when you think about academia and entertainment and politics and media, you would think that young people are so bombarded by the left that where are they getting this message about righteousness? Where are they getting even the influence that makes them want to find some transcendent truth? And they're returning back to faith. What do you think? Is it sovereign or is it. Or do these institutions have. Do we have some other influence that we don't think about, that we've got?

[Dr. Ben Carson]

Well, I think some people are actually starting to open their eyes and look and see what they see and hear what they hear and analyzing it with the incredible brain that God gave them, rather than just being led like sheep by the nose. And I think that's what's happening, and I think it's very encouraging. We have the material out there, and this is not an accident that this happens in our country. If you go back and you look at the congressional record from January 10, 1963, Congressman Herlong read in the 45 goals of communism in America. Most of the Stuff that you see happening right now was planned, such as taking over our school systems and teacher unions, filling them with Marxists, changing Hollywood and the news media and making sexual perversion normal, natural, and healthy. I mean, you'd be surprised if you looked at those 45 girls, how many of them they've accomplished.

[Lance Wallnau]

Wow.

[Dr. Ben Carson]

That was because they knew that we were much too strong because of our faith and our families. And those things had to be attacked. Those things had to be destroyed in order to destroy this country. So now the question is, will they actually fully succeed or will we wake up in time to recognize what's going on? And that's one of the reasons that at the American Cornerstone Institute, we've concentrated so much on the young people, because they want to get in there early and plant their seeds. It was Vladimir Lenin who said, giving your children to teach for four years and the seed that I sow will never be uprooted. They really are concentrating on our kids, and you're seeing some of the fruits of what they've been doing for the last few decades on the college campuses now. And we can't just sit by silently and let them do it. We have to recognize that we have to get in there and be just as active in showing our young people the real history of our country. What kind of people are really here? What kind of people are we? Are we people who love our neighbor or people who hate and cancel your neighbor if they disagree with you? We get to choose which kind of people we want to be.

[Lance Wallnau]

All right, so let me ask you a question. Unfortunately, I grew up. Well, I went to a military school, so I got a different kind of education. My kids, apart from their Christian school, when they went off to college. The worst part is college. I mean, I agree with Charlie Kirk's analysis. You know, man, college is just messing your kid up. That's not where you got to send. That's where they're going to get propagandized. But they were taught that the founders were Enlightenment deists, that the whole idea that God and Christianity and the Bible had this influence on the founding of the nation is evangelicals spin history. That in fact, these men were Enlightenment people. They were European rationalists. Help me understand this, because this is part of the story that's got to get sorted out.

[Dr. Ben Carson]

Well, that clearly is not true. We make that clear in our children's book, Built on Faith, the whole. You know, it wasn't just George Washington who prayed a lot and read from Psalms every day. It wasn't just the second President John Adams who said that our Constitution is for a moral and religious people and is wholly inadequate for the government of any other. It wasn't just Thomas Jefferson who said that our rights can't be taken away from us because of where they come from. And Madison and all of them. They were not deists. They were clearly people who believed in God. And it was Benjamin Franklin who got up in front of the whole assembly in 1787 when they were about to break apart because they couldn't agree. And he said, gentlemen, during the Revolutionary War, every other sentence under your mouth was, God save us. Now you don't want to talk to God. We need to get on our knees and pray. And they did. And they got up and put together the Constitution of the United States. And anybody who really studies this in depth and looks at some of the letters from our founders know that they were not deists. But the propaganda mill is alive and

[Lance Wallnau]

well, well, well, you know, And Benjamin Franklin actually was kind of like hanging out with Whitfield. But this is unusual. I think people had seen the movie the Awakened. I haven't seen it yet, full disclosure, but I gotta go see it. But I knew that Whitefield had impacted Franklin because Franklin sat there and was measured off in Philadelphia. The Guy's talking to 20,000 people, and he was intrigued. And Franklin, who was a bit of a penurious penny pincher, he said, man, I had to stop. He said Whitefield would start taking an offering, and next thing you know, for his orphans. And I got one copper. And then next thing I know, I'm emptying out my pocket. He learned not to bring money to Whitefield's meetings because he gave him money in the offering. I mean, Whitefield had an anointing from God, and Franklin loved it. So tell me about your book. I saw some pictures that came up.

[News Analyst]

We.

[Lance Wallnau]

This is a book for what's the Age that this is targeted for our audience through five.

[Dr. Ben Carson]

Fifth grade.

[Lance Wallnau]

All right, up to fifth grade.

[Dr. Ben Carson]

Yes. Basically, it's designed to show them pictorially what was going on with the founding fathers, but also with the people in the community and how they were spreading the word amongst themselves, working amongst themselves, showing what kind of people we could be. Because a lot of these people came from environments that were not very pleasant places. Serfdom and totalitarianism. And they very much wanted to have a place where they were free to pursue their dreams without government interference and to make sure that it stayed that way. And our founders were determined to give us a constitution that would keep it that way because they knew historically that men want to control each other. They just do. And unless you have a mechanism to keep it from happening, it's gonna happen.

[Lance Wallnau]

My gosh, you see that happening every day in American politics. So Madison, I was surprised, I think. Do you cover Madison at all in your book for kids? Yes, we mentioned Madison because wasn't either one of the guys was the architects of the balance of power. He knew you couldn't trust fallen mankind with too much power. So these balances, right, that's a Christian influence on the way our structure is.

[Dr. Ben Carson]

Checks and balances is the mechanism to keep the domination from occurring. And he was the architect of that. So, yeah, that's in the book too. It's done in a way that little children, 6 year olds, 7, 8 year olds can really understand it and be proud of their country. Because in order to be patriotic, you have to be proud of your country. You have to love your country, not hate your country. And that's what we're seeing inculcated into the young people now hate these people. You know, they took land from the Indians. Of course, people migrate and move around. They always have, they always will. Land changes hands, that's not anything new. And, you know, we just have to be aggressive in making sure that they know both sides of the story, the good, the bad and the ugly. But when you look at America overall, there's a heck of a lot more good than there is bad and ugly.

[Lance Wallnau]

Ben Carson, tiffany.com. look forward to seeing you in Washington. Doctor, thank you for joining us today. God bless you. I'm gonna get your book and we read it to my grandchildren. All right.

[Dr. Ben Carson]

Thanks for being a patriot.

[Lance Wallnau]

Thank you. Hard to believe we're out of time. But for Rav, we're gonna come back real America's Voice. You're going to come back again and we'll pick this up where we left off. I got something very important to talk about.