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2.27.25 Stronger protections for women’s sports, challenging IVF expansion, and a police chief handles sorrow
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Mary Reichard
Good morning. Protecting female athletes. Do recent policy changes do enough to protect their rights?
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Kim Jones
It's a far worse policy than what we had before.
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Myrna Brown
Also, pro lifers push for clarity as states race to safeguard IVF access. And a small town police chief's worst fear comes true when tragedy hits his department.
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Alex Miller
My lieutenant was in the front. He's leaning over the seat doing lifesaving that we're trying to just keep them with us.
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Mary Reichard
And world commentator Cal Thomas on the biblical truth that pride goes before a fall.
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Myrna Brown
It's Thursday, February 27th. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Mary Reichard
And I'm Mary Reichard. Good morning.
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Myrna Brown
It's time now for News with Kent Covington.
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Kent Covington
Senior Trump administration officials gathered at the White House on Wednesday.
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John Speed
Okay, thank you very much.
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Lindsay Mast
We appreciate you being here.
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Cal Thomas
And we put together a great cabinet.
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Kent Covington
The president heard they're kicking off the first cabinet meeting of his second term. And the secretaries and agency heads in the room got a little facetime with the man that Trump has tasked with rooting out waste, fraud and abuse in the agencies they oversee. Elon Musk, who leads doge the Department of Government Efficiency, said eliminating overspending in Washington is not optional. Just the interest on the national debt.
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John Speed
Now exceeds the Defense Department spending. We spent a lot on the Defense.
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Christy Hamrick
Department, but we're spending like over a.
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Kent Covington
Trillion dollars on interest, he said. If that continues, America will effectively go bankrupt. President Trump also signed an executive order compelling agencies to end unnecessary contracts and to justify what remains. And the Office of Management and Budget sent out a memo that directs department and agency heads to prepare for a large scale reduction of the federal workforce. The memo also instructs them to develop reorganization plans by March 13. The President said the cuts are needed to deliver an efficient government for American taxpayers and to address the growing federal debt crisis.
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Mary Reichard
We're cutting down government.
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John Speed
We're cutting down the size of government.
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Cal Thomas
We have to.
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John Speed
We're bloated, we're slopp.
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Kent Covington
The president said the head of the EPA believes nearly two thirds of his agency's employees could be let go. Trump also confirmed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will be at the White House tomorrow. The two leaders will sign a large new economic deal between the two countries that will include US Access to rare earth minerals in Ukraine. Zelenskyy says he also plans to discuss his country's position with Trump and is bringing a list of questions.
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Christy Hamrick
Can we buy weapons directly from the United States?
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Alex Miller
Can we work with frozen assets for.
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Kent Covington
Buying weapons, for example, Zelensky referring to Russian assets frozen under sanctions. Trump said he's not keen on providing security guarantees to Ukraine in an economic deal. He said Europe should be doing that. And British Prime Minister Keir Starmer says Europe is willing to do that. And he plans to discuss that with Trump during a meeting today at the White House. American consumers are facing egg shortages nationwide as bird flu continues to take a heavy toll. But Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rawlins says her department is working on a plan to increase supply and lower costs.
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Kim Jones
We're looking at bringing in some eggs.
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Mary Reichard
Importing some eggs in the short term.
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Kim Jones
We're talking to several countries around the world that can get us eggs right away.
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Kent Covington
This would not be a long term.
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Kim Jones
Fix, but to immediately begin to bring those prices down.
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Kent Covington
The average price of a dozen eggs reached nearly $5 in January, surpassing the previous record from two years ago. In Kentucky, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined Governor Andy Beshear to tour parts of the state shredded by floodwaters earlier this month. And as the long road to recovery begins, Noem says she wants to make sure everyone is on the same page.
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John Speed
A lot of what we can do.
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Kent Covington
Is put out a blueprint for how.
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John Speed
We communicate between the local, the state.
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Lindsay Mast
Responders with the federal responders, she said.
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Kent Covington
FEMA is drafting a new blueprint for response communication. President Trump has issued a major disaster declaration paving the way for federal aid. Authorities said the storm was to blame for nearly two dozen deaths. The terror group Hamas handed over the bodies of four more dead Israeli hostages last night. That came as Israel mourned the deaths of three hostages whose bodies were returned last night. Last week, funeral services were held for Sherry Bebas and her two children, four year old Ariel and nine month old Kaffir. All three were killed while being held hostage by Hamas. I'm Kent Covington. And straight ahead, the NCAA looks like it's changing its mind about men in women's sports. Plus, pro life groups expand their focus. This is the world and everything in it.
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Mary Reichard
It's Thursday 27th February. Thank you for joining us today. Good morning. I'm Mary Reichardt.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. First up on the world and everything in it, women's sports. Earlier this month, President Trump signed an executive order designed to keep men out of women's sports. The NCAA quickly issued a new policy on transgender athletes that seemed to do the same.
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Mary Reichard
But some say college athletes are still at risk. World's Lindsay Mast explains Kim Jones has.
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Lindsay Mast
A heart for girls and women's sports.
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Kim Jones
Sports was a wonderful place for me to develop as a complete person and it's a passion that I wanted to pass on to my kids and actually share with everyone who loves sports.
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Lindsay Mast
She became an All American tennis player at Stanford, then played on the women's tour. Her kids loved swimming and in 2018 her daughter made the team at Yale. During her junior year, though, the team faced an unexpected challenge.
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Brooke Rawlins
Nobody will touch Leah Thomas during the.
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Lindsay Mast
2021-2022 season, Joan's daughter, her teammates and competitors from other teams lost spots in competition to Will Lia Thomas Leah Thomas.
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John Speed
Is sometimes so far ahead she's seen.
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Kent Covington
Waiting for her competitors to catch up.
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Lindsay Mast
After three years of swimming on the University of Pennsylvania men's team, he spent that year on the women's team. Kim Jones started speaking out soon after and hasn't stopped.
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Kim Jones
Watching sports become a tool to silence and humiliate women was something I was unwilling to let sit still and not a legacy I was willing to leave for the next generation.
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Lindsay Mast
Coming up she co founded the Independent Council on Women's Sports, or icons. It's an advocacy group focused on the protection of female athletes and she says despite President Trump's recent executive order on transgender athletes, girls and women still remain at risk. The NCAA issued its new policy shortly after the president signed the order. Audio from CBS the NCAA is banning.
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Kent Covington
Transgender women from playing on women's teams. This follows an executive order from President Trump that calls for penalties against schools and leagues that allow transgender women to compete in women's sports.
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Lindsay Mast
The policy says that student athletes assigned male at birth may not compete on women's teams. Jones says that language assigned male at birth lacks clarity.
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Kim Jones
Instead of defining sex and saying that the women's category in collegiate sports is for female athletes, they have said they defined a term called sex assigned at birth, which is a designation on a birth record.
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Lindsay Mast
44 states currently allow for changes to the sex or gender marker on a birth certificate. Some other countries also allow changes. While the NCAA says it will not accept amended birth certificates, it leaves the process of certifying athletes up to the schools, Jones says that's an ineffective way of keeping men off the women's teams at the 1100 schools governed by the NCAA.
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Kim Jones
It's just a haphazard way of saying we don't want to know. We're just going to take a piece of paper. Everything's going to be hidden and it's up to the schools to make sure that the documents are in order. It's a far worse policy than what we had before, because now there's no method of questioning, there's no method of oversight.
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Lindsay Mast
When World emailed the NCAA asking how they would enforce the new policy, they responded but did not answer that question. Jones says a genetic test involving a cheek swab would be a more accurate way to determine a person's sex and therefore eligibility. World Athletics, which governs track and field and running events, is currently considering using such a test, with additional follow up testing if needed. Similar testing was required at the olympics for nearly 30 years until 1998. Those who favor allowing transgender athlete participation say there are so few of them that the impact is minor. In December, the NCAA president told a Senate judiciary hearing that he knew of only 10 transgender athletes in the organization. That's out of more than 500,000 players. But Kim Jones says participation numbers don't capture the scope of the impact a male athlete has in female sp. She illustrates it using a high school voy.
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Kim Jones
It pulls down someone in the standings and ability to access a championship meet, to move to the next level to earn their first spot on a JV team or on a travel squad. It's impacting record boards finishes. But then it impacts all the young women watching and on the sidelines, recognizing that their teammates or their peers aren't important enough to stand up for aren't important enough for fair and safe rules.
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Lindsay Mast
It's a uniquely unifying issue. A January New York Times Ipsos survey found nearly 80% of Americans oppose allowing biological males in women's sports.
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Kim Jones
But really, I think it's the public arena of the difference of the sexes. So you watch absurdity play out right in front of your nose and injustice happen right in front of your eyes. Seeing people applaud it, not willing to change it. You're watching something happen in front of you that is so obviously wrong you can no longer deny it.
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Lindsay Mast
But solving the problem will take more than recognition of it. Policies and executive orders can change until laws are on the books, she says. Female athletes will remain vulnerable. Reporting for World, I'm Lindsay Mast.
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Kent Covington
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Mary Reichard
Some judges are no nonsense others. Law and order, the kind who will throw the book at you. But one judge in a Michigan town says, you shoplift, I'll throw the bucket at you. Soap, water, and a sponge, too. Judge Jeffrey Clothier is sentencing misdemeanor shoplifters to weekends washing cars in the Walmart parking lot this spring. The idea is to make offenders think twice about a life of crime while giving back to the very shoppers paying the price for retail theft. It all seems win win. Cleaner cars for the public, scrubbed wrap sheets for the perps. What's not to like? Walmart says it'll supply the soap and water. And as for the judge, he's not just handing down sentences, he'll be hand washing right alongside. So there's a fresh take on crime and punishment, where the guilty wash away their debt. It's the World and Everything in It.
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Myrna Brown
Coming up next on the World and Everything In It, Pro Life Groups take on In Vitro Fertilization for years, the pro life movement has focused on protecting the rights of unborn children killed in abortion. But in the past year, IVF has emerged as a new front in the national debate.
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Mary Reichard
Both Democrat and Republican lawmakers are advocating for the reproductive technology that demands a response from pro life leaders and voters alike. World's Leah Savas brings us a story on pro life groups working to raise awareness about the risks and the ethical concerns.
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John Speed
Welcome to Build a Baby where anyone who wants a baby can build one.
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Christy Hamrick
That's the opening of a short satirical YouTube film about IVF. In the video, a crane slowly lowers the smiling face of a baby onto an infant's chubby, headless torso. As smokestacks puff out small clouds in.
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John Speed
Our state of the art facility. Using state of the art technology, we can build your state of the art baby.
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Christy Hamrick
In the next scene, a conveyor belt of babies scrolls across the screen. In less than three minutes, the video describes the IVF process. It involves fertilizing human eggs in a lab and transferring some of the resulting embryos back into a woman's uterus. In a tongue in cheek way, the video critiques some of the factors that give pro lifers pause about the technology.
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John Speed
All embryos will be graded and we'll discard any defective or genetically imperfect babies before you even know it.
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Christy Hamrick
The video is from the Christian media group Choice for Two. They're known for videos critiquing abortion, like this one from 2018 Human Rights. You may think you've always had yours, but you would be wrong. So how did you get your human rights from the Magical birth canal, of course. Texas pastor John Speed helped research for the Build A Baby video before its original release in 2023.
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Cal Thomas
We've always felt that the video, when we released it, was. Didn't really get the play that it should have to begin with.
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Christy Hamrick
So when national news on IVF broke last week, it seemed like the perfect time to re release the video.
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Lindsay Mast
President Trump has signed an executive order calling for lower costs and expanded access to in vitro fertilization, or ivf.
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Christy Hamrick
Here's Speed again.
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Cal Thomas
He's been a dilemma for the entire pro life movement because he just completely dropped the life issue from his campaign. And now with this, he clearly doesn't understand or doesn't care one or the other about the human lives that are lost in ivf.
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Christy Hamrick
Before researching for the Build A Baby video, Speed didn't know much about the IVF process.
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Cal Thomas
I didn't hardly know anything, but the main thing was that I did not understand how much human life we were talking about. The scope of it is shocking.
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Christy Hamrick
According to national data from 2022, there were more than 400,000 recorded IVF cycles that year. Each likely involved conceiving an average of 10 embryos each, which is an estimated total of 4 million embryos. But fewer than 100,000 infants were born through IVF that year. That means roughly 3.9 million other embryos were either frozen, destroyed, or discarded or died in some other way. And that's just 2022.
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John Speed
Contact us and build your baby today.
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Christy Hamrick
Choice for two is not the only pro life organization speaking out against President Trump's order calling for the expansion of ivf.
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Brooke Rawlins
Well, Students for Life of America and Students for Life Action has taken a position of tremendous concern and reluctance and great reserve about ivf.
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Christy Hamrick
Christy Hamrick is vice president for Media and Policy at Students for Life.
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Brooke Rawlins
You know, that's part of the thing that we'd like to talk to President Trump about. When he says he supports ivf, what exactly does he mean? Because there needs to be more regulation. I don't believe that he supports a sloppy business that allows preborn children to be destroyed accidentally. I'm sure he does not support all the mistakes that are being made.
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Christy Hamrick
One of the mistakes she's referring to also hit the news last week, the day President Trump signed his executive order.
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Kent Covington
All right, a wild story now at noon.
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John Speed
A Georgia woman suing a fertility clinic.
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Kent Covington
That she used to help her get pregnant.
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Christy Hamrick
Yeah. She claims the staff workers implanted the wrong embryo in her and she gave birth to a baby that was not biologically hers. Here's Hamrick again.
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Brooke Rawlins
This industry is so full of stories like that of horror stories where people lose children, where mistakes are made, where the wrong sperm is used, and there is a failure to be willing to discuss everything that's going wrong. The lack of safeguards.
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Christy Hamrick
At the same time, lawmakers in Georgia are considering a bill that would codify a right to ivf. Six Republicans are listed as co sponsors on the bill, and it has the support of the Republican speaker of the Georgia House. The pro child organization then before us has been working with pro life groups in the state to oppose the bill. Here's engagement director Patience Sunny. So when something gets framed as a right, you know, something that we saw when abortion was considered a right was that regulation on a right is very difficult and that expansion of a right is almost inevitable. Sunny is concerned that legislation like this would prevent pro lifers from effectively regulating the industry, such as by limiting the number of embryos an IVF provider can create, or by prohibiting genetic screenings. I think any of those regulations and limits would be framed and approached as a threat to that right. Back in Texas, John Speed with Choice for two used to stand outside of abortion facilities to try to talk women out of getting abortions. Now that abortion facilities are closed in his state, he spends a couple hours each week standing outside of fertility clinics trying to talk couples out of pursuing ivf. He said he sometimes runs into pro life people who are going through the process.
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Cal Thomas
You know, I've asked them, do you believe that life begins at fertilization? 99% of the time they agree, yes, it does. And then when I start walking them through each stage, I've had them, you know, I think they're real Christians, you know, that they break down in tears because you're just by asking questions, you're bringing it to their front of their conscience.
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Christy Hamrick
But his hope is to catch people before they've started, since many have no idea what's actually involved in IVF until they're in the middle of it. Just last week, he spoke to a young woman who, he said, soaked up what he was saying like a sponge.
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Cal Thomas
She had a very gentle spirit. She wasn't argumentative. She just nodded her head a lot and listened quietly and said, thank you for talking to me. You know, I'll look into this. I'll read this stuff, you know.
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Christy Hamrick
And so, yeah, Speed wants her and others to understand what's at stake for tiny humans in the IVF process.
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Cal Thomas
I look at it from a Christian perspective, and I look at it from a child sacrifice perspective. And if you look at the numbers, you're talking about maybe 25 to 30 human embryos destroyed for every one live birth. That's worse than abortion. It's devastating.
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Christy Hamrick
Reporting for World I'm Leah Savas.
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John Speed
SA.
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Myrna Brown
Is Thursday, February 27th. Thank you for turning to World Radio to help start your day. Good morning. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Mary Reichard
And I'm Mary Reichard. Coming next on THE WORLD and everything in it, a young police chief faces tragedy in a small town. The US has nearly 4,000 police chiefs. It's always been a tough job, especially since the social unrest and calls for defunding the police in 2020.
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Myrna Brown
What's it like for the highest ranking officer when his small department suffers in a new way? WORLD senior writer Kim Henderson brings us this report.
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Alex Miller
David?
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Brooke Rawlins
Alex Miller is a busy man.
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Alex Miller
I don't know yet, brother. I think we're gonna probably have to push that back because Sean's out of town.
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Brooke Rawlins
At 37, Miller took the reins as police chief in his hometown, Summit, Mississippi. That was two years ago. Miller had been in law enforcement for more than a decade and he had a big goal for his new visibility.
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Alex Miller
Tomatoes or cucumbers? My uncle just loved the yard and they loved the community. When it got to the point where you don't want to sit on your porch due to the lack of police presence.
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Brooke Rawlins
One of the ways his department shows their presence is through traffic details, license.
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Alex Miller
Checkpoints, anything that just can show your face, let the community know we're here. If a mom is having trouble buckling up her child's restraint seat, we show her the proper way to get that done.
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Brooke Rawlins
But visibility is challenging when you're chronically understaffed. That's why Miller was interested when a seasoned officer named Troy Floyd stepped into his office. Floyd was looking for a change.
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Alex Miller
We sat here and the conversation went on and on. And then he decided that he wanted to pray for me in my office. It surprised me.
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Brooke Rawlins
Floyd joined the department as a Christian. He offered good counsel to the young.
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Alex Miller
Chief and helped me understand why I was here. And it wasn't just because of promotion. It was a calling.
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Brooke Rawlins
Floyd had skills that benefited the other officers, too.
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Alex Miller
The fact that he knew narcotics and some things that he just had to feel for a lot of us, like.
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Brooke Rawlins
What to look for during a traffic stop, how to tell when someone is lying.
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Alex Miller
I know a lot of younger guys that look over things and that's just training and that's growth and development. But when you've been in it for so long and you Know people, It came natural.
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Brooke Rawlins
It came natural for Troy Floyd had an immediate effect on the department.
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Alex Miller
Those guys started reporting to work early, all because of Troy.
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Brooke Rawlins
It's a pattern of encouragement Floyd established early in his career. Here's a 2018 voicemail that Floyd sent to an officer after a major drug bust.
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John Speed
That dope you got last night and then get into some of our baby's hands. Took it off the street. That money ain't that funny with dope money. That dope money was gonna buy more dope.
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Brooke Rawlins
So thank you.
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John Speed
Thank you not only as a cop, but also as a citizen of this county. I love you, brother.
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Brooke Rawlins
On August 8, Floyd and a fellow officer set up an afternoon license checkpoint near the railroad tracks in downtown Summit. Chief Miller was right up the street in his office when his police radio sounded.
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Alex Miller
All we hear is, you know, summit one, shots fired.
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Brooke Rawlins
They rushed to the scene and found Floyd lying on the ground. He'd been shot.
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Alex Miller
My lieutenant started to do chest compressions. I used my middle and index finger to try to stop the bleeding.
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Brooke Rawlins
They couldn't wait for an ambulance. They loaded Floyd into their cruiser.
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Alex Miller
My lieutenant was in the front. He's leaning over the seat doing life saving measures. And we're trying to just keep him with us as we was probably four minutes away from Southwest Regional Medical Center.
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Brooke Rawlins
But despite all they did and all the hospital staff did, Floyd died. And a dreadful new task fell on Miller. He had to tell Floyd's wife once.
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Alex Miller
She arrived to the hospital. I met her at the car. We went to the family room. And I can't stand behind anybody and let them tell her.
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John Speed
Many people in pike county remain in shock this evening after a veteran police.
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Kent Covington
Officer was killed during a routine checkpoint.
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Brooke Rawlins
It was the first officer death in Summit ever. Miller has wrestled with that.
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Alex Miller
It was more of my vision that drew him to me, of being more proactive and getting these guys trained. And in my heart, I feel like my vision created the worst day ever.
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Brooke Rawlins
But Summit's mayor reminded reporters that evil can be found everywhere.
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John Speed
And even though we're a small town, but we are not immune from having these type of events happen here today.
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Brooke Rawlins
A large framed photograph of Floyd sits across from Miller's desk. He looks at it every day.
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Alex Miller
I thought I knew, but now I know that this seat carry a lot of weight.
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Brooke Rawlins
In May, he'll travel to Washington, D.C. to see Floyd's name on the law enforcement officer's memorial. Miller says the thought of it puts a knot in his stomach.
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Alex Miller
This is probably going to be the last memorial that I'm going to have to just really just walk up to that monument and tell him bye.
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Brooke Rawlins
Most small town police chiefs will never navigate the kind of tragedy Miller has. He says it's taught him a lot. One truth in particular, you can't replace a Troy Floyd. But the department still conducts traffic details. The chief has held events that help children get to know his officers. Visibility is still his goal. Reporting for WORLD I'm Kim henderson in Summit, Mississippi, S.A.
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Myrna Brown
Today is Thursday, February 27th. Good morning. This is the world and everything in it from listener supported World Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
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Mary Reichard
And I'm Mary Reichardt. Up next, world commentator Cal Thomas shares a timely reminder from scripture, one that applies to everyone, all the way to the top.
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John Speed
President Trump is on a roll, claiming victory after victory against the Swamp. Some of his decisions are being challenged in court, but others, like closing the border and deporting migrants with criminal records, are likely to be sustained. Polls show they're popular. Foreign policy is another matter, but we'll see whether the president's art of deal making works to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. There is one enemy that is far more dangerous than any foreign threat or the high price of eggs. That enemy is pride, which Solomon warns in Proverbs 16:18 goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before the fall. Perhaps the most famous validation of that ancient truth in modern times and an example of pride's self destructive inner nature is the collapse of the Nixon administration over the Watergate scandal. Richard Nixon had scored a resounding victory for his second term in the 1972 election, but his pride and that of especially his chief counsel, Charles W. Colson, brought them down. I've been rereading colson's best selling 1976 book, Born Again. It's about how his extreme loyalty to Nixon and the dirty tricks unleashed against Democrats by people hired by members of the administration resulted in his conviction and ultimate spiritual transformation. The story will be familiar especially to Christians of a certain age. As the gate began to close on the administration, Colson visited his old friend Tom Phillips, president of Raytheon Corporation in Boston. He noticed a difference in the man he had known in the past. Colson writes that Phillips explained to him his life had been transformed after accepting Jesus Christ and suggested Colson reads CS Lewis's classic mere Christianity, taking no chance he might not. Phillips read Colson the chapter about pride in which Lewis wrote, quote, there is one vice of which no man in the world is free. Pride or self conceit leads to every other vice. Phillips added that he and the Nixon administration had brought all their troubles on themselves. When Colson got into his car to leave, he described himself breaking down in tears because he knew Phillips was right. Pride was leading to his downfall. He eventually accepted Christ as his savior. Later, in court, Colson pleaded guilty to this charge on or about June 28, 1971, and for a period of time thereafter in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, the defendant unlawfully, willfully and knowingly did corruptly endeavor to influence, obstruct, and impede the due administration of justice. In connection with the criminal trial of Daniel Ellsberg, Colson went to prison. But out of that experience came a vision to establish a ministry to inmates he called Prison Fellowship. The organization helps prisoners and their families. It still endures following his death in 2012. History is replete with leaders who have been consumed with and destroyed by pride. Let this serve as a warning, Mr. President. The best friends are those who speak the truth, disregarding the effect it might have on their own positions. Will you listen and avoid the fate of others who have traveled down this dead end road and learned too late to regret it? I'm Cal Thomas.
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Mary Reichard
Tomorrow, John Stonestreet is back for Culture Friday and Colin Garberino reviews a movie based on a true disaster story. Plus your listener feedback. That and more tomorrow. I'm Mary Reich.
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Myrna Brown
And I'm Myrna Brown. The world and everything in it comes to you from World Radio. World's mission is biblically objective journalism that informs, educates and inspires. Jesus said, for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted. Part of verse 14 of Luke chapter 18 go now in grace and peace.