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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Global Threats | Allen Jackson Now | March 31, 2025
- Well.
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- Good evening.
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- I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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- Peace through strength.
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- There's no question it works.
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- Lose the strength.
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- And before long,
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- The opportunities
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- Around the world try to take advantage of the weak.
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- So tonight
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- We're going to talk about the current global threats
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- And about how the new team at
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- The white house is working hard to create a lasting peace.
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- Obviously, that can't happen overnight,
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- But president trump
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- Has shown the rest of the world that he has
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- Not just a willingness, but a genuine desire to face down
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- Any and all of the bad guys.
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- There's china,
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- North korea, russia, iran and iran's terrorist partners.
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- Some of them are now working together
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- As they target the united states.
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- That's on top of the multiple threats here at home with gangs
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- Who set up shop here
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- When the last administration left the gates open.
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- The new borders are has arrested nearly 40,000 of them
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- And even captured the east coast head of the ms13 gang.
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- But a single judge, as well as an appeal panel, has stopped
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- The deportation flights.
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- So president
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- Trump is dealing with enemies close to home and far away.
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- But they all want to see america fail.
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- So tonight we're joined by a military man
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- Who's faced many of those challenges.
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- Commander kirk
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- Lippold retired from the navy and always an american patriot.
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- Welcome back commander.
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- Thank you.
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- Alan. it's wonderful.
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- Be back on your show.
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- Well, the most immediate problem seems to be
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- Iran's nuclear program.
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- With the help that the chinese gave pakistan.
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- Pakistan was able to share its nuclear program secrets
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- With iran.
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- It's possible that iran may be within just days
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- Of building a nuclear weapon.
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- And we already know how
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- They armed hamas, hezbollah and the houthis.
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- With your experience in the region.
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- Do you think the president is going to be able
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- To dial back any nuclear threat from iran?
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- To be honest with you, alan, i think at this point,
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- What the president is doing is absolutely spot on.
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- He is sending signals back channel and outright
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- To let the iranians know they will not be allowed
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- To possess a nuclear weapon.
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- And at the end of the day, he is going to prepare along
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- With other nations in the region, especially israel,
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- To be able to confront iran if required and to take out
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- That nuclear program if that is the choice of last resort.
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- You know, most of the talk about
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- Nukes is about being attached to ballistic missiles.
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- But couldn't a nuclear bomb
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- Also be carried in the back of a truck
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- Just to the place iran would want to attack?
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- It would be very difficult to do
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- Simply because of the size and weight.
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- When you've got a nascent or new program like iran has,
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- They don't have really the miniaturization technology,
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- Although they are trying to get their
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- Which is why they ran that ballistic missile program
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- In tandem.
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- What i worry about is not just the fact
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- That they may in fact create a nuclear weapon,
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- But they also have
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- The capability to just take that highly radioactive material
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- And spread it in a ballistic missile as a dirty bomb.
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- So we need to be prepared to tell the iranian leadership,
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- Those mullahs, that you will not do anything or
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- Your nation will cease to exist.
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- It is not just an issue of you getting a nuclear weapon.
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- It's that we cannot allow you to threaten the region
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- And threaten the world
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- Through actions that could destabilize
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- The entire middle east and, quite honestly,
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- Threaten the flow of oil from saudi arabia,
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- But not necessarily
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- The united states may depend on these days
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- With a drive toward energy dominance,
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- But in fact threaten the rest of the world
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- And economies around the world.
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- I heard former governor mike huckabee at his confirmation
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- Hearing, where he made clear that iran's leaders
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- Will only wake up
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- When they feel the maximum economic pressure from the west.
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- Listen to what he had to say.
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- The maximum pressure bankrupted the iranians.
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- It made it impossible for them to fund the hoodies.
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- Hezbollah, hamas.
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- They didn't have the money
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- When his term ended and president biden took office,
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- Unfortunately, they relaxed some of those pressures.
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- And the result was iran had money again.
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- They didn't use it to help their people.
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- They used it to murder people in israel through the hoodies
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- That through hezbollah and through hamas.
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- You in addition to how to handle iran,
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- Do you think israel should
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- Totally eliminate hamas and hezbollah before they pull back?
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- Well, i think it is unfortunate
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- That we have some of the second order effects
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- That civilians are dying in the gaza strip.
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- At the end of the day,
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- Hamas must be totally destroyed and dismantled.
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- They can have no future in gaza, and they, as a terrorist
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- Organization, must be utterly destroyed
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- To send a signal to the iranian people
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- That that will not be tolerated.
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- By the same token, it's time to solve the problem,
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- Not the symptom, when we go after hamas.
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- Palestinian islamic jihad, hezbollah
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- And other terrorist groups.
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- Those are symptoms of the problem, which is iraq.
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- Maybe it's time to start holding iran directly accountable
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- When these groups attack israel.
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- What did you think of president trump's suggestions
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- About rebuilding gaza
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- With a completely different kind of a future?
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- I think it was a great approach,
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- Not because it may actually happen,
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- But what it forced the region to do
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- Was come to grips
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- With the palestinian issue and realize that they all own it.
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- The middle east and every nation that is back
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- There owns the problem with the palestinians
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- And the fact that they have
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- Embraced terrorism in order to try and further
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- Their goals of having a state for themselves.
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- The reality of it is that if they want to become
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- A recognized nation
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- With a legitimate government, they have to renounce terrorism.
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- They must have peace with israel
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- And every country in the region, starting with the big guys
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- Like saudi arabia and egypt, the uae and oman
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- Must all contribute to create that stable environment
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- Where peace can exist
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- And israel is recognized with the right to exist
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- And have a peaceful and and prosperous future.
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- You know, i've read a bit about isis
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- Having something of a resurgence in afghanistan.
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- Do you know anything about that?
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- The main thing that's starting to happen is not only
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- Are you seeing it there, you're seeing it in
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- Some of the remnants up in syria as well.
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- When it comes to isis, it's like any terrorist group.
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- We need to go after that leadership.
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- And again,
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- Take out the leadership
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- And make sure
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- That it cannot begin to grow and become a cancer
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- In the region again,
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- Whether it's in syria or whether it is in afghanistan,
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- Which also we need to make sure and clear to the taliban,
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- Any any attempt to try and allow a terrorist group
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- To be able to use afghanistan is a base to recruit,
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- Train, equip, plan and conduct terrorist operations
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- Will not be tolerated.
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- And if you require us to come back,
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- We can and will be willing to do it.
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- But we won't stay.
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- We will just destroy your ability
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- To take care of your country and your people.
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- Well, commander lippold, please
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- Stay with us for another segment.
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- There is so much more to discuss.
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- Absolutely.
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- And if you want to jump in
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- On these national security issues,
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- You can send me an email at comments at alan
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- Jackson now.com.
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- As you know, we read them all.
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- I'll be right back.
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- I'll be right back.
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- We're back now
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- With kirk lippold, the former commander of the uss cole.
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- The democrats have been looking for any way they can
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- To try to criticize president trump.
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- And unfortunately, the president's
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- National security team gave them a handful of catnip.
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- A reporter from the atlantic
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- Was inadvertently added on a group message
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- That was describing an attack on the saudis in yemen,
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- The terror group that's been lobbying
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- Missiles at american and european cargo ships.
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- Democrat mark warner, he got pretty wound up about it.
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- Listen to his comments.
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- Classified information
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- Should never be discussed over
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- An unclassified system.
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- It's also just mind boggling to me
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- That all these senior folks were on this line,
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- And nobody bothered to even check
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- Security. hygiene 101.
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- Who are all the names?
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- Who are they?
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- Well, it apparently includes a journalist.
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- Nobody was texting war plans.
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- And that's all i have to say about that.
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- Although no one was put in harm's way.
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- Clearly it was a mistake that no one wanted to see happen.
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- Most of all, the president that said, who has
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- At one time or another send an email to someone by mistake.
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- From your point of view.
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- Will this incident lead to any long term damage?
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- In this case, i don't think it will lead
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- To any long term damage.
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- What it does provide for
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- The administration is an opportunity to learn
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- Because at the end of the day,
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- While there may have been no classified information per
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- Se discussed in that, each individual segment
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- May have been unclassified.
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- What you have to worry about in an operational, secure,
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- Operational security
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- Environment is the sum total of what may have been discussed.
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- In fact, may have in the aggregate
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- Aided a classified situation.
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- I think, number one,
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- This should be
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- A very telling point
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- That unless you have a communication system
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- Capable of being used by government personnel
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- That has been vetted by the national security agency,
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- The whole classification, our conversations
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- From unclassified
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- All the way up
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- Through top secret into compartmented information,
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- That is the only system
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- That these political appointees should be using to be using
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- A commercial system like signal is wholly inappropriate.
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- I think they've
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- Learned their lesson and it is time to learn from it.
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- Get operational security at the forefront of everyone's mind
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- And then move forward.
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- I think right now we don't need.
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- Whereas is the attacks that we are seeing
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- Where on one side you have the democrats
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- Screeching our heads on a platter.
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- Yet they were silent in the past
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- On whether it was hillary clinton
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- Or whether it was lloyd
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- Austin being a wall for days at the end of the day.
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- I think the administration has learned its lesson
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- And that pete hegseth and others are better for it
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- And are going to do better for our nation in the future.
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- You were the commander of the uss cole
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- When it was attacked by al-qaida,
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- The precursor of isis, some 25 years ago now.
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- It makes me think that while they might change their names,
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- Terrorists are always going to be with us
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- And always trying to attack the united states.
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- Is the threat any different now, or do we have a better handle
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- On where they are and how to go after their leadership?
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- Well, alan, i think we've clearly learned a lot of lessons
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- Because when you look at the sum
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- Total of what's going on around the world,
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- Probably in conjunction with other nations
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- And their intelligence services,
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- We are able to much more quickly
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- And effectively take out the heads
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- Of these terrorist organizations.
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- And that means that we can disable them quicker.
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- It makes them move more often.
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- The more they have to move or react,
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- The more we can detect where those movements come from
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- And what they're planning is for the next operation,
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- And try to prevent it so that it doesn't even happen,
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- And then continue to dismantle them
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- By killing the leadership
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- As quickly and efficiently as possible.
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- Let's move to russia.
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- Our annual threat assessment says that putin views
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- Its war with ukraine as a proxy war with the west.
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- Do you have any idea of mr.
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- Putin still considers ukraine just a start,
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- And that he'll try to march further into europe?
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- I have no doubt in my mind that president putin
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- Does not consider ukraine to be a legitimate country
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- Or government,
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- And that he is going to work
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- To destabilize them and eventually take it over.
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- At the end of the day.
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- I know that
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- A lot of people have raised the issue regarding ukraine,
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- The corruption, all the problems they dealt with for years.
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- But this is how i look at it.
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- If i have a choice between dealing with corrupt,
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- I'll gladly do that because you can reform corrupt.
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- When you look at putin and russia, you look at evil.
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- Evil cannot be reformed or redeemed.
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- And we need to view our approach to russia through that lens.
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- The europeans themselves have put the united states
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- And the world into this position
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- By their failure to live up to their nato treaty commitments
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- Over decades and multiple administrations.
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- I, quite frankly think that is outstanding
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- Of president trump and vice president pence
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- To force the europeans to start to live up to those commitments
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- And start taking care of their security
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- Instead of living under our umbrella of security
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- That we have bankrolled for decades.
- 00:12:44.393 --> 00:12:47.063
- They can stand on their own two feet.
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- They have the economies to do it,
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- Especially when you look at germany, italy,
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- Spain and france, and they can make that entire continent safe.
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- The baltics understand that lithuania, latvia,
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- Estonia, poland, they know what the threat is
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- Because they've lived under it, and now they're next to it.
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- And they see russia for what it is evil.
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- This president trump have any real leverage in trying to get
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- Putin to the bargaining table for a cease fire?
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- Absolutely.
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- He does, because i think that at the end
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- Of the day, alan,
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- He will be able to put sanctions into place, employ
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- Those with other nations, including iran, including china.
- 00:13:24.867 --> 00:13:29.705
- North korea is going to be difficult,
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- And they're already providing
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- Those thousands of troops that are quite frankly,
- 00:13:32.775 --> 00:13:34.777
- Being slaughtered, and deservedly so.
- 00:13:34.777 --> 00:13:37.280
- But i think we can
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- Still continue to force russia to come to the bargaining table.
- 00:13:38.514 --> 00:13:42.318
- Let's start going
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- After these unsanctioned and illegal oil transfer
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- Shipping that is out there, and take them off the high seas.
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- Take away the ability for russia to put money
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- Into the bank that allows them to continue to bankroll it.
- 00:13:53.062 --> 00:13:56.299
- By the same token, again going back to europe,
- 00:13:56.299 --> 00:13:59.435
- Why did they continue to buy russian oil and gas
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- For a couple of years after the invasion started?
- 00:14:02.838 --> 00:14:05.942
- When it supposedly is a threat, the europeans need to grow up
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- And realize that this threat is real,
- 00:14:09.879 --> 00:14:12.348
- And they need to take responsibility for thwarting it.
- 00:14:12.348 --> 00:14:15.785
- They need to take the lead, not the united states anymore.
- 00:14:15.785 --> 00:14:19.655
- Well, one question as we wrap up.
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- See if we can end with something positive and get your opinion
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- On how much safer we are now versus
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- What was going on in the biden years.
- 00:14:27.263 --> 00:14:29.265
- I have to believe we're in much better hands,
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- Even with so much of the world stirred up as it seems to be.
- 00:14:31.300 --> 00:14:35.438
- Absolutely.
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- The united states
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- Is safer today for one reason, right off the bat,
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- And that is we have secure borders again,
- 00:14:40.476 --> 00:14:43.713
- Because at the end of the day, if you don't know
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- Who is coming into your country, you don't have a country.
- 00:14:45.648 --> 00:14:49.085
- And when you look at
- 00:14:49.085 --> 00:14:50.186
- What president biden allowed to happen by allowing
- 00:14:50.186 --> 00:14:53.122
- Millions of unvetted people to come into our nation,
- 00:14:53.122 --> 00:14:56.459
- Military aged males by the thousands
- 00:14:56.459 --> 00:15:00.496
- In our in our country today, and now we have to begin
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- The difficult process of figuring out who they are,
- 00:15:03.966 --> 00:15:07.570
- Where they are, what they're doing,
- 00:15:07.570 --> 00:15:09.739
- And then figure out how to get them
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- Deported as quickly and efficiently as possible.
- 00:15:11.340 --> 00:15:14.910
- Well, commander lippold, thank you for your time today.
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- I hope you'll stay in touch.
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- Absolutely.
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- Be a pleasure to be back on. thank you. alan.
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- I'll be back with some thoughts of my own when we return.
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- To. i'm grateful that my friend
- 00:15:31.259 --> 00:15:35.497
- Mike huckabee was nominated to be the u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel.
- 00:15:37.632 --> 00:15:39.367
- It's a christian man
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- Who loves the state of israel and knows
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- The biblical perspective regarding israel.
- 00:15:41.936 --> 00:15:44.506
- He's also a man
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- Who's not afraid to speak the truth
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- If he calls out lies and deception.
- 00:15:47.342 --> 00:15:49.944
- The legacy media is messaging regarding the middle east
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- Has been so left leaning, so pro muslim.
- 00:15:52.514 --> 00:15:55.784
- They say israel needs to make room, make peace with people
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- Who subscribe religiously to a violent ideology.
- 00:15:58.720 --> 00:16:02.223
- I saw the videos of october the 7th.
- 00:16:03.024 --> 00:16:05.293
- They abused wives and daughters while their husbands watched,
- 00:16:05.293 --> 00:16:08.229
- And then they murdered the husbands
- 00:16:08.229 --> 00:16:09.531
- As the wives and daughters were forced to watch.
- 00:16:09.531 --> 00:16:11.900
- They said babies on fire.
- 00:16:11.900 --> 00:16:14.002
- They have a legitimate peace deal between israel and hamas.
- 00:16:14.002 --> 00:16:17.305
- You must have people with integrity to which to negotiate.
- 00:16:17.305 --> 00:16:20.909
- And hamas doesn't meet that standard.
- 00:16:20.909 --> 00:16:23.144
- Lebanon today is devastated.
- 00:16:23.144 --> 00:16:24.712
- Syria is in ruins. iraq is undone.
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- Jordan is very fragile.
- 00:16:27.515 --> 00:16:29.584
- Libya remains in transition.
- 00:16:29.584 --> 00:16:31.386
- And iran is the global sponsor of terrorism.
- 00:16:31.386 --> 00:16:34.355
- And they're desperate to acquire nuclear weapons.
- 00:16:34.355 --> 00:16:37.392
- Regarding the china threat, trump is taking a fresh approach
- 00:16:37.392 --> 00:16:40.228
- Through tariffs.
- 00:16:40.228 --> 00:16:41.162
- Making moves to secure the panama canal.
- 00:16:41.162 --> 00:16:43.631
- Decisions. counter decisions.
- 00:16:43.631 --> 00:16:46.067
- We're beginning to see the ukrainian conflict
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- Move toward a resolution.
- 00:16:47.869 --> 00:16:49.437
- I thank god for that good news.
- 00:16:49.437 --> 00:16:51.673
- But here in america,
- 00:16:51.673 --> 00:16:52.707
- We aren't facing the same type of conflicts
- 00:16:52.707 --> 00:16:54.909
- That we're seeing around the globe.
- 00:16:54.909 --> 00:16:56.511
- You might not see a war zone
- 00:16:56.511 --> 00:16:57.745
- Within your community, but make no mistake.
- 00:16:57.745 --> 00:16:59.914
- Spiritual warfare is in
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- Every home, business, school, and church building,
- 00:17:01.249 --> 00:17:04.352
- And they're just as real as the physical ones.
- 00:17:04.352 --> 00:17:06.654
- We have to choose the truth every day at our kitchen tables,
- 00:17:06.654 --> 00:17:10.258
- And it'll make our nation more secure.
- 00:17:10.258 --> 00:17:12.994
- If we'll do that, i promise.
- 00:17:12.994 --> 00:17:15.096
- There's more reasons for hope than despair.
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- When we return, i'm going to read some of your comments.
- 00:17:18.066 --> 00:17:26.011
- When we return, i'm going to read some of your comments.
- 00:17:26.011 --> 00:17:27.651
- Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with us.
- 00:17:28.852 --> 00:17:31.388
- Your emails are an important part of the program.
- 00:17:31.388 --> 00:17:34.758
- A pastor from tennessee wrote, i don't condone the recent
- 00:17:34.758 --> 00:17:37.461
- Possible misstep of accidentally including a news
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- Correspondent in a group meeting at the white house.
- 00:17:39.696 --> 00:17:42.499
- However, i am irritated
- 00:17:42.499 --> 00:17:43.834
- At the reaction of the democratic party,
- 00:17:43.834 --> 00:17:45.435
- Who never held hillary clinton accountable for her emails
- 00:17:45.435 --> 00:17:48.472
- And computer used and excused former president biden
- 00:17:48.472 --> 00:17:51.542
- For his possession of classified documents in his garage.
- 00:17:51.542 --> 00:17:54.978
- The hypocrisy is blinding.
- 00:17:54.978 --> 00:17:57.281
- You have said that evil doesn't play fair.
- 00:17:57.281 --> 00:17:59.316
- What should our response be to those
- 00:17:59.316 --> 00:18:01.151
- Who have standards for thee, but not for me?
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- Thanks for all you do.
- 00:18:04.188 --> 00:18:06.023
- Well, i think the answer is pretty simple.
- 00:18:06.023 --> 00:18:07.891
- Let's do everything in our power to see people
- 00:18:07.891 --> 00:18:09.893
- That practice that kind of hypocrisy
- 00:18:09.893 --> 00:18:11.895
- Never have access to authority over our lives again.
- 00:18:11.895 --> 00:18:15.866
- If we'll do that, it'll all.
- 00:18:15.866 --> 00:18:17.201
- It'd be a safer place for all of us.
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- Game.
- 00:18:20.304 --> 00:18:20.871
- Gayle. email.
- 00:18:20.871 --> 00:18:21.805
- Thank you, pastor jackson, for all you do.
- 00:18:21.805 --> 00:18:23.840
- You're an inspiration for all who hear you.
- 00:18:23.840 --> 00:18:26.276
- I agree
- 00:18:26.276 --> 00:18:26.910
- We need to
- 00:18:26.910 --> 00:18:28.045
- Stand up to all the evil nonsense being pushed on us.
- 00:18:28.045 --> 00:18:30.581
- We do. we're not powerless.
- 00:18:31.181 --> 00:18:32.849
- If we'll start at our kitchen table
- 00:18:32.849 --> 00:18:34.251
- And our holiday table in those friends circles.
- 00:18:34.251 --> 00:18:36.687
- We can be difference makers.
- 00:18:36.687 --> 00:18:37.888
- We've all got a sphere of influence.
- 00:18:37.888 --> 00:18:40.624
- Stanley from nebraska wrote, i love your show
- 00:18:40.624 --> 00:18:43.160
- In the teaching of jesus christ.
- 00:18:43.160 --> 00:18:45.195
- We're live
- 00:18:45.195 --> 00:18:46.363
- For a special time in history, and i'm so happy every day
- 00:18:46.363 --> 00:18:48.999
- Wondering what the lord will do, not only for america,
- 00:18:48.999 --> 00:18:51.835
- But the world. it's a golden time.
- 00:18:51.835 --> 00:18:54.871
- What do you think?
- 00:18:54.871 --> 00:18:56.473
- Well, stanley, i couldn't agree more.
- 00:18:56.473 --> 00:18:58.442
- I think god called us to this unique season in history,
- 00:18:58.442 --> 00:19:01.812
- Far beyond politics or even culture wars.
- 00:19:01.812 --> 00:19:04.881
- God, in his wisdom and providence, looked across
- 00:19:04.881 --> 00:19:07.551
- The span of time and chose us for this unique time.
- 00:19:07.551 --> 00:19:11.989
- When communication
- 00:19:11.989 --> 00:19:13.590
- And travel are so available, the globe's very small.
- 00:19:13.590 --> 00:19:17.027
- There's really no language barriers anymore.
- 00:19:17.027 --> 00:19:19.363
- And god has called us.
- 00:19:19.363 --> 00:19:21.265
- It was a golden age long before
- 00:19:21.265 --> 00:19:22.733
- President trump came up with the label.
- 00:19:22.733 --> 00:19:25.068
- And we've got an assignment.
- 00:19:25.068 --> 00:19:27.137
- Finally, james
- 00:19:27.471 --> 00:19:28.338
- Wrote, arrest
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- The judges and attorneys that argue or interrupt
- 00:19:29.373 --> 00:19:30.974
- The deportation of illegal aliens,
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- Charge them
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- With accessory to the crimes of those being deported.
- 00:19:34.278 --> 00:19:36.913
- Well, i don't know about the legality of that.
- 00:19:36.913 --> 00:19:38.582
- It's enough to make us want that to happen.
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