Rick Green [00:00:07] Welcome to Good News Friday on the WallBuilders Show. Looking forward to getting some good news. David and Tim Barton, of course, collecting that throughout the week. And we'll catch up on as much as we possibly can today. Be sure and visit our websites, wallbuilders.com and wallbuilders.show. Always taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical, historical, and constitutional perspective. And, hey guys, a small might seem trivial piece of good news just to throw out at you as you're getting ready and going through your stacks there. It looks like that amazing animated movie, David, that Angel studios did, and you guys got to see before I did. I finally got to watch it by the way with the grandkids and they absolutely loved it. But now you can stream it on Angel. So if you didn't get a chance to go to the movie theater, they moved it to the streaming. I just thought it was, I was so thrilled to watch my grandkids actually enthralled and even the little ones. And, so anyway, Tim, you talked a lot about it when it, when it came out and we had, the guy played Samuel. Had him on the program and talked about it, but just saw that last night that you can now stream it. And a lot of people didn't get a chance to go see it in the movie theater. So just thought we would mention that. Good stuff. And I think they hit 80 million, by the way. I think it, I think you broke 80 million. I mean, that's good news. 

David Barton [00:01:11] That's great. 

Tim Barton [00:01:12] It's incredible. I can confirm, that I have been able to, I can verify that it is streaming because I've already seen it on Angel. It became available on a Wednesday and they are, so there's David, they have these little short TV show episodes, really fun. They have some other songs and music in there. They already had some of the, kind of the songs from the movie available as well. And so, we're already, our family, we are Angel Guild members, Angel subscribers. And so, we were already listening and watching and tracking all of it anyway. And so, then when I got the notification on Wednesday that David is now available, we're like, well, let's just check and see. And sure enough, it is available. And actually, it's very possible that tonight, my parents' house, we'll be watching it with one of our good friends, Omer Eshel. So, because he hasn't seen it. And so, our friend from Israel, it was not playing in Israel. And I said, man, when it came out, I said bro, you have got to see this. It is so good. And so, we very likely will be watching it with our friend Omer Eshel in Jacksboro, Texas tonight. But yes, it is great for anybody that didn't see it. You can go to Angel and you can watch it on Angel. And I already told my family, even though we can already stream it, I'm still going to purchase it because I am going to vote with my dollars, and I want everybody to know, this is the kind of movie that absolutely we can get behind and support. So, so good. 

Rick Green [00:02:47] Yeah, the better it does, the more of those kinds of movies we will get. So super, super exciting there. All right, David. So, first piece of good news on your stack man! 

David Barton [00:02:56] Well, I'm going back for several presidents because it deals with something Trump has just done and going back to a lot of earlier presidents that did some good stuff and so Trump has done some really good pro-life stuff in the past week. So, I'm gonna go back all the way. I'm to go back to George W. Bush for a bit, George W Bush, I got to be there when he signed one of the pro-life bills that he did and he was a very strong pro-life president and it was a bill that reversed something that Bill Clinton had done. And Bill Clinton had gotten into supporting fetal tissue research. So, taking unborn babies, taking fetuses, and doing experimental research, creating pregnancies just so you could kill those babies and experiment with them. And when it came out, that was the panacea. This treatment, this fetal tissue, we're gonna be able, and as they put it out, we can clone this, we can trick this tissue into thinking it's anything. So, we can end cancer with this. We can end. And they went through all the diseases that were gonna end with it. And you know, our thing was, look, you can't do something immoral and have a moral outcome. You cannot kill unborn life and expect that that's going to save lives down the road. And lo and behold, here we are basically 40 years later and still don't have the cure from fetal tissue research, but we do have it from adult stem cell research. So, what happened was you had Clinton that came out with this paying federal funding to do experiments with fetal tissue research It was the panacea that would make us all healthy. And then Bush came in and said, no, we're not doing that, that's immoral. And so, I got to be there when he signed that bill. And so now we've had it's gone back and forth of presidents, but President Trump stepped up and rolled it all the way back. No federal funds of any kind can be used for any type of research with aborted babies. And it goes through all this list of even second and third stuff. You can't even give funding to anyone who might use the funds in that way. You can't get funding to any group that on the outside does that. I mean, they're just they've gone two and three degrees of separation. They're just not going to let federal funds go anywhere near any group that is killing unborn children to do research and experimentation. So that's good news. The other one goes back to Reagan actually all the way back to Reagan and it was called the Mexico City policy and the Mexico City policy said we will not use American dollars to fund abortions overseas anywhere at all. And so, Reagan stopped that. Obama really took it the other direction, put it on steroids. When Hillary Clinton was the secretary of state for Obama, one of the things she created was called the office of global women's initiatives. And she made it really clear that office exists to do two things internationally, it's to promote homosexuality and promote, promote abortion all over the world. And so that was her way of getting around the Mexico City Policy. And, but Trump has gone back and said, no, we're not having anything that we're not going to subsidize abortions anywhere in the world through any second or third- or fourth-party entity. We're just not going do it. So good news from Trump and he's taken a really strong pro-life position. And has reinforced what's called the Mexico City policy and has also ended the fetal tissue research stuff, which didn't work, and we put billions into that, trillions into it, actually put trillions in both of these programs, and they've now been stopped by Trump. So that's great news. 

Rick Green [00:06:32] You know, Tim, for all those times that you mentioned that your dad manages to get in three or four or sometimes 15 pieces of good news into, into one piece, I think he really did it that time. I think that was, that might've been a record and like, and spread out over decades, like pieces of Good News from decades and he got it all in to one turn at the....one bite at the apple. That's pretty good.

Tim Barton [00:06:54] Yeah, I think the difference is, I think probably that was all from one article, primarily. I didn't see him shuffling through multiple papers of different articles on his desk. So, unless he had selectively copied and pasted to a new word document and then printed it, which is totally actually possible now that I think about that, he, he could have done this beforehand. I don't know. But I didn't see him shuffling. 

David Barton [00:07:18] Actually, I did not shuffle just so you wouldn't think it was several articles. So, I had a stack together. I had, I had it all worked out, which is which. And actually, there were five, five things that Trump did this week. And I thought, well, I can probably get away with two of them. I can't get the other three in there without getting some comment, but I did manage not to shuffle the papers just so it wouldn't trigger you. 

Rick Green [00:07:41] Only two Trump things, but you threw in a Reagan, you threw it a Bush you threw It that's so I know it was the timeline of it. Alright Tim. I'm having fun our buddy. Go ahead. What do you got first? 

Tim Barton [00:07:53] Well, we're going to stay with Trump and this might actually take one from your stack. I don't know. But the headline is U.S. Officially exits World Health Organization. And first of all, I could pause for all the cheering. We'll wait just since the moment. Okay. Yes, we have been waiting so long for these kinds of things to happen. There was an announcement that came from the White House, but at first it came from the secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr and the Secretary of State Marco Rubio. And by the way, the Health and Human Service Secretary, Robert Kennedy Jr., and then Secretary of State and whatever other hats he's wearing at the time, probably JD Vance's new child's babysitter Marco Rubio with all the hats that he wears, but they made a joint announcement today the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization freeing itself from its constraints as President Trump promised on his first day in office. This action responds to the WHO's failure during the COVID-19 pandemic and seeks to rectify the harm from those failures inflicted on the American people. Now, for those that might not remember, the WHO is the one that was leading some of these arguments and ideas that you need a health passport to travel anywhere. You got to have your, your vaccination status readily available. You need all your extra boosters. Now, forget the fact that these companies that were producing these vaccines were making tens of billions of dollars a year and probably giving some kind of royalties and commissions to some of these groups that were suggesting these mandates. Like forget all that, like don't, don't follow the money on this one. Yeah, that that's who the World Health Organization was. They're the ones saying that you shouldn't be able to go to family's weddings or funerals. You can't go visit your family in the hospital. You can have family gatherings. You can't go to the oceans outside by yourself yet, and you need to have a mask Maybe two masks on while you drive by yourself in the car. That's all the World Health Organization That's where so much of this is promoted and coming from and of course, they're gonna say well, I mean we were just trying to suggest good things at the time and following the science, et cetera, et cetera. Right. All that's ridiculous. What we know from the, the Trump team is that there's a number of global organizations that the U S has been a member of that they have been working to withdraw America from. They identified that they believe it compromises the sovereignty of the United States and it operates counter to American interests. And this is also why this is actually in the same article. I want to clarify this. This is in the same article. It says that in January, 2025, Trump withdrew the United States from the Paris Accord as well. Now, Dad, I first learned about the Paris Accord back when I think you were giving a testimony in the U S Senate on the dangers of climate change. You actually weren't going that direction, but that's kind of what the hearing was about, was climate change, and the Paris Accord was the idea. Dad, do you remember how many, it was billions, how many billions of dollars they recommended the U.S. spend. And then if we spent that amount of billions of dollars, we might could avert global warming. But when they broke down the percentage of a degree of change.... Do you remember those numbers up top of your head? 

David Barton [00:11:19] Yeah. It was, it was trillions, hundreds. And I think the overall effect of change would be a half a degree that, that would cool the earth. I have to agree if we spent all of that trillion, it's like the entire economy, the United States back then, if we will buckle our economy and give them everything, maybe we can lower it by half a degree. My comment was, man, if you think you're going to fry on a skillet because of a half degree, you are really a stupid scientist. And you know, that was, that was their thing. Or they have to agree man is gonna make the polar icecaps melt we're gonna have more than a hundred and twenty to a hundred twenty feet of water come in from the melting the polar icecaps they predicted that the Washington DC would be underwater as a result of climate change and global warming. It was crazy.

Tim Barton [00:12:04] Well, this also, yeah, I mean, this goes back to like Al Gore, his, his Inconvenient Truth, whatever, kind of documentary nonsense it was. When he was promoting these ideas. And one of the many ironies that lots of people will point out is all of these climate alarmists keep buying oceanfront property and spending at times tens of millions of dollars on these unbelievable mansions on oceanfront property. So clearly, they're not worried about this propaganda. Now, not to digress too much on this. Here's the amazing part is not only is Trump saying, hey, we're withdrawing from all of these dumb places. So, we're no longer part of the Paris Accord. We're no long part of The World Health Organization. The other great thing about this is It also means that we're not going to continue to fund them as Americans. And when you look at the funding that we've been giving, for example, the world health organization, we've been giving more than a hundred million dollars a year, and sometimes more than $200 million a year that we'd be giving to the World Health Organization, and that is part of like membership fees and dues, whatever, and as, as every listener might imagine the U.S. often is, and not often, like I don't know there's an exception. We are the highest paying member and pretty much all of these ridiculous organizations that we have been talked into being part of. And, and so we've been funding our own demise in many situations. We've been paying for groups that hate America, that don't have America's best interests at heart to tell us how bad we are and how we should change. We shouldn't have any more coal plants, even though China's building a new one every single week. No, we can't, we, can't have coal. You can have natural gas, you need more windmills, you need more solar and not that I'm against having alternate forms of energy, but when we are saying we're not going to use the things that we know work and we're going to instead rely on like the windmills that don't work in extreme cold temperatures and have all these issues like solar doesn't work in winter storms, this is, this the nonsense of those organizations. So, guys, it is really, really good news that we finally have a president who is saying, you know what, let's not be part of these dumb organizations anymore, let us not give them all of our money and fund these things that don t make sense. And for the World Health Organization, Trump said it was because of their COVID-19 mishandling that did this. I think that's a very convenient explanation, but I would. I would venture to guess that's probably not the only reason we left, but that certainly is a good argument to hang that noose around their head and say, hey, here's where you done blew it. Here's where your messed up so bad. And now all of the evidence is out there where of course, of course the World Health Organization said, hey, no COVID came from a bat. It didn't come from a lab in Wuhan. And again, go down all the nonsense they promoted. And Trump said, yeah, because of that we're out and we're not funding you anymore, all of that is really good news. 

Rick Green [00:14:58] You know, as we're going to break, I think I have to point out since I said earlier, one bite at the apple. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree. That was pretty good, Tim. I mean, I think you got seven or eight items in and you mentioned it's one article. So, you defended yourself, but anyway, all right, guys, hang on quick break. We'll be right back. Everybody. We've got more good news for you. You're listening to the WallBuilders Show.

[00:16:27] Welcome back to The WallBuilders Show, thanks for staying with us, tossing it back to David for some more good news. 

David Barton [00:16:30] Well, I'm gonna tell you the rest of Tim's article that he didn't tell you. So I'm going to get into that. Oh, he was afraid of, only seven. He didn't want to go to 15 because then he would, yeah. 

Tim Barton [00:16:39] Let me point out, he said Tim's article, as if he himself knows it was one article that just had multiple, I didn't even put that, like I didn't write the article, this is just what was in the article. 

David Barton [00:16:53] Well, you covered the WHO part, which is health. I'm going to cover the, the global warming side. So, you, you dipped over into my global warming, but that's all right. So, what happens is with global warming is Tim pointed out, you go back to the Paris Accords with Obama in 2015. Before that, you had the Kyoto Protocol with Bill Clinton in 1997. Before that back in 1992 is when we first got in this global warming stuff. So, we've been now over 40 years that we're all going to burn up. We're all gonna die from, from the heat of the sun. And we've got records, the, the records on temperature go back for a century and a half, and there's just always cycles in it. It's like some years, Texas is hotter in the summer than other years. Some years you get more snow in the North and other years, there's cycles. It's all cycles. And so, they looked at cycles and said they aren't cycles. This. This is a one-way trip to death, and it was just stupid. So, with all that we poured into that under Obama, under Clinton, et cetera, not only did Trump, did Trump exit from WHO, but he is now out of the UN climate groups. And so, all the UN Climate Groups, he is out of that he has left. And it's like 65 nations that are part of these climate groups and all these treaties that former democrat presidents signed that were going to bind us. And by the way, a treaty is the same level as constitution. And so, if we, if we pass these stupid treaties with other nations and we're subjecting our U.S. Constitution to what their vote is and what they tell us we've got to do, and, so that's why international treaties and that's why George Washington warned that you avoid foreign entanglements. You do not want to get that, that kind of stuff going because now you're messing with your constitution. And so, our Democrat presidents were willing to give away that sovereignty. Trump has backed off of that. The other part with this is some of the things that we've been involved with, with the legislative network we have at WallBuilders is helping states take care of de-banking. Where that these banks were saying, hey, we don't like your ESG scores. We don't what you're doing with climate change. So, we're not going to let you use our credit cards or bank or whatever else. And so, we got a number of laws passed in states to stop that. But what's interesting now is that even the corporate world has seen how stupid this is. And so, there are net zero asset managers and there's the BlackRock and Vanguard and State Street are the three biggest in the world. And those three firms with the money they have, that's more than 40% of the publicly traded US firms on the S&P 500. Well, it's actually 88% of what's on the S&P 500. So those three asset managers control essentially 88% of the publicly traded companies that are out there and all three of those companies have now pulled back from climate change from all these treaties, everything else they, and that's, I mean, they're investors, everybody else. And, and certainly the, the state laws that we have to get passed on that was a shot over the bow of these guys, but it's, it's another good thing that Trump has taken us out of the UN climate organizations on top of taking us out of WHO and others. So that's great news. 

Rick Green [00:20:14] Good stuff, good stuff. Alright Tim, what's next for you? 

Tim Barton [00:20:17] This one is a poll dealing with religious freedom, and the headline says support for religious freedom up five points from 2020, reaching a high of 71. Now this came from the Beckett Fund for Religious Liberty, which I know about the Beckett Fund and I wondered, man, is this one of their spinoffs? It's a nonprofit and they are focused on public interest, legal and educational institute. So, very well could be connected. But the point of it is... What they found is incredibly strong support for religious liberty in the nation, so much so that they've done this study several times and they found that this year Americans sided with the Supreme Court's decision. And then this year, would be 2025, but this year Americans sided with the Supreme Court decision upholding religious parent's rights. In Mahmoud verses Taylor and protecting religious charities and Catholic Charities verse Wisconsin. And both of those are very significant that the majority of Americans came out and said, look, we believe that parents ought to have the right to express and uphold their convictions for the way they raise their kids. And also, that if you're a Catholic Charity, that you ought to be able to conduct your charity based on your beliefs. The fact that the majority of American's agreed and said yeah, well that's just kind of common sense of course they should be able do that. It is actually really good news, again, considering that this is a record high when the overall score of 71 identified that Americans are increasingly unified in supporting religious liberty for people of all faiths. Now, again I think maybe there's some nuance when I see these articles. It does make me sometimes want to dig deeper into the poll to see what all is there, what questions were asked, how they were asked, to see if also that's an indicator in some ways. But the trends they identified from this study is that there's increased support for Americans' freedom to bring their faith into the public square, which I thought that's a really great one, that the majority of Americans think that you ought to be able to share your faith in public, continued backing for parents' rights to guide their children's education and broad approval of Supreme Court decisions that protect religious freedom. So overall, the support from Americans for these what we would think maybe some of these basic rights, freedoms, or even necessities is the majority of Americans support it. One of the things from this index or from the study, they found that 57% agree that religious freedom is inherently public and Americans should be free to share their faith in public spaces. So, this is slightly different than the idea of having your faith in public, this is sharing your faith and public spaces and the fact that it's only 57% I think is very revealing. Maybe for lots of reasons that we have to some extent misunderstood the first amendment or even the importance and necessity of faith being shared. But the last thing from this is 73% of Americans agree that parents should be able to opt their children out of public-school material that they believe is inappropriate. And that's up 10 points from 2021, which, guys, it's interesting that in 2021, that number was only 63% of Americans thought parents should able to opt their kids out. That's also kind of in the middle of COVID. And I think it's a great indicator of how far we have come since COVID that now so many parents, so many Americans have woken up to the nonsense that was being taught. To say, you know what, parents ought to be able to say we don't want our kids being part of some of these crazy sex ed, some of these pornographic books, et cetera. They ought to able to opt them out. So overall really good study indicating America's position, not as high we want it to be, but it is actually going the right direction, which is a good indication. 

Rick Green [00:24:05] And that's on a core principle of just basic parental rights, that the parent should be able to do that and have the final say on what their child is learning. All right, David, final piece of good news for the day. 

David Barton [00:24:15] You know, one of Trump's pledges, or one of his mantras he had when he came in office was Make America Safe Again. And that was one of the programs he wanted to do. Well, it appears that it's gone in a really good direction. The stats are now out. They've been keeping these stats by rate, that is, how many crimes per 100,000 people or whatever. And so when you look at the rate we have, this is the lowest recorded rate of murder in the United States since they started keeping track back in 1900. There's 13 different categories of crime they're keeping, and over this past year, 11 of those 13 categories decreased. The crime went down in them. There's one that did not show any change at all, and one was in drug crimes, and drug crimes have increased 7%. That is the only category that's increased this last year, but the others, you have 11, 13 down. One is where it was. And significant to this, Just go through some other stats, carjackings declined 61%, shoplifting is down 10%, which is amazing because you think of the way the Democrat states were doing, well it's not shoplifting unless you take more than $900 or whatever it was, but now shoplifting has down 10% and just going through all of these stats, it is absolutely amazing how much safer America is right now. And because we live here every day, we don't really notice that necessarily, but the stats, these are impressive stats. Just one year later now we've seen Make America Safe Again is indeed a a true mantra. 

Tim Barton [00:25:48] And, Dad, that's so important to remember because even what we saw and we talked about in Washington DC, how Washington DC got so much safer. But it's important to remember because as this week, the news has been caught up with what's going on in Minnesota. And because of that, it actually feels like there's more unrest and there's more violence than there actually is. And so, it's really good to go back and remember that we are actually moving in a good direction overall, even though there's chaos and drama and craziness in places. What President Trump has done has actually been really good to lower crime of virtually every kind across America. That's really good news. 

Rick Green [00:26:28] Yeah, and those are the things that people remember, and that's why I think the polling is so much better than what we are seeing in the social media feeds, or certainly what we're seeing on the major media. All right, great stuff today, guys. Thanks for all the good news. Everybody have a fantastic weekend. You've been listening to The WallBuilders Show.