agenda in full effect. get this. after the united nations, after the united states negotiated a $285 million cut to the united nations bloated budget, of course, this comes as president trump and u.s. ambassador nikki haley blasted and i mean blasted the u.n. general assembly for holding a vote to rebuke the united states decision to move its embassy in jerusalem, and israel, to jerusalem. watch this. the united states will remember this day in which it was singled out for attack in the general assembly for the very act of exercising our right as a sovereign nation. we will remember it when we are called upon to once again make the world s largest contribution to the united nations. and we will remember it when so many countries come calling on us as they so often do to pay even more and to use our influence for their benefit.
i imagine that the night of good friday for peter was the dark night of peter s soul. the man whom he had followed for many months, a man whom he probably thought was the redeemer of israel had just been crucified by the romans and to make matters worse, he had denied that redeemer in his final hour. according to the gospel of john, after christ s crucifixion, peter leaves jerusalem and travels back to galilee. peter has not found himself again, so he returns to his former life as a fisherman. would have been devastating for peter to feel the cause they worked for for three years was defeated and the man that he thought would be the messiah, to see him tortured and crushed like an average man.
in the dome over st. peters. it is at the core of roman catholicism. did peter really travel to rome to lay the foundations for the catholic church? the new testament says nothing explicitly about peter coming to rome and i think a lot of people will be surprised to find this out. the apostle paul who we know lived in rome and whose letters make up half of the new testament doesn t refer to peter being in the city once. he doesn t seem to know of him. he doesn t mention any connection between the christians there in the city and peter and that s kind of interesting omission. so if peter is there in the city, why doesn t paul say anything about him at all? the omission is all the more strange because we know peter and paul knew each other. in and around a.d. 50 peter and paul meet at antioch. they meet there because peter has come from jerusalem to see the progress being made by paul s mission. my brother.
before the crucifixion, so he recommits his life to jesus three times after the resurrection, committing to feeding the flock of the disciples and ultimately being their leader. feed my sheep. feed my sheep. it s a beautiful poignant moment of restoration. it s the moment where peter is once again the rock. he s reestablished as the rock who will be key in the early christian movement. peter was convinced that jesus was the messiah and became resolute in spreading that message. peter isn t just static in jerusalem. he doesn t just stay in jerusalem. he does go out on mission and talked about as someone that takes the mission to the jews.
national security strategy is a good one will help us focus better on threats that face our country. rob: i america has more confidence in its military and feels bolder than we have in the last week years but a lot of people feel we are sitting on a powder cake, so many different conflicts around the world. the decision we made recently moving the embassy into jerusalem has anchored a lot of muslims around the world, was that the right time, the right choice to make? time for america to reassert its strength. one thing you saw in the obama administration, the policy was a weaker america makes for a stronger world, donald trump has a different policy, stronger america makes for a stronger world, peace through strength and asserting ourselves where we need to assert ourselves in the middle east is important to show