4.28.26 Homeland Security funding, the SPLC defrauding donors, leverage with Iran, and a new album from Christian rock’s longest-running band
4/28/202635 min
The assassination attemptand Homeland Security funding, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s methods and credibility, Iran nuclear talks and internal divisions, and Arsenio Orteza on The 77snew album. Plus, Denny Burk calling for repentance, an unplanned backyard landing, and the Tuesday morning news
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First 90 secondsMyrna Brown· Host0:00
[news theme] Good morning. The White House says the words of the president's accused would-be assassin sound too familiar.
Karoline Leavitt· Soundbite0:11
Those who constantly falsely label and slander the president as a fascist, as a threat to democracy, and compare him to Hitler are fueling this kind of violence.
Nick Eicher· Host0:21
Also today, the legal battle ahead for the Southern Poverty Law Center. And as talks stall outside Iran, what's going on inside? Later, the Christian rock band The Seventy Sevens return with new music.
Speaker 30:34
There really isn't any intent behind this other than to express whatever we're going through with the lyrics.
Nick Eicher· Host0:42
And world commentator Denny Burk on poison in our politics and repentance as the antidote.
Myrna Brown· Host0:48
[news theme] It's Tuesday, April twenty-eighth. This is The World and Everything in It from listener-supported World Radio. I'm Myrna Brown.
Nick Eicher· Host1:02
And I'm Nick Eicher. Good morning.
Myrna Brown· Host1:04
Up next, Kent Covington with today's news.
Nick Eicher· Host1:09
The man accused of carrying out Saturday's attack at the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington faced a federal judge in a courtroom in DC on Monday. Cole Thomas Allen of Torrance, California, listened as prosecutors read the charges against him. He did not enter a plea. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Todd Blanche· Soundbite1:27
The first count is attempted assassination