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March 31, 2025 | 20:11

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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.
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  • 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
  • 00:13:00.877 --> 00:13:04.614
  • 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.
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  • 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,
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  • Being slaughtered, and deservedly so.
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  • But i think we can
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  • Still continue to force russia to come to the bargaining table.
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  • 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.
  • 00:13:46.489 --> 00:13:50.459
  • 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?
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  • When it supposedly is a threat, the europeans need to grow up
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  • And realize that this threat is real,
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 00:14:25.361 --> 00:14:27.263
  • What was going on in the biden years.
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  • 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,
  • 00:14:37.540 --> 00:14:40.476
  • 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
  • 00:14:43.713 --> 00:14:45.648
  • 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
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  • In our in our country today, and now we have to begin
  • 00:15:00.496 --> 00:15:03.966
  • The difficult process of figuring out who they are,
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  • Where they are, what they're doing,
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  • 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.
  • 00:15:20.249 --> 00:15:22.485
  • I'll be back with some thoughts of my own when we return.
  • 00:15:22.485 --> 00:15:31.008
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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
  • 00:15:49.944 --> 00:15:52.514
  • 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
  • 00:15:55.784 --> 00:15:58.720
  • 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
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  • As the wives and daughters were forced to watch.
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  • They said babies on fire.
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  • 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.
  • 00:16:24.712 --> 00:16:27.515
  • 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
  • 00:16:46.067 --> 00:16:47.869
  • 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
  • 00:16:59.914 --> 00:17:01.249
  • 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.
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  • When we return, i'm going to read some of your comments.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • However, i am irritated
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  • At the reaction of the democratic party,
  • 00:17:43.834 --> 00:17:45.435
  • Who never held hillary clinton accountable for her emails
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  • And computer used and excused former president biden
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  • 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.
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  • Let's do everything in our power to see people
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  • That practice that kind of hypocrisy
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  • Never have access to authority over our lives again.
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  • If we'll do that, it'll all.
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  • It'd be a safer place for all of us.
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  • Game.
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  • Gayle. email.
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  • 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.
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  • I agree
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  • We need to
  • 00:18:26.910 --> 00:18:28.045
  • Stand up to all the evil nonsense being pushed on us.
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  • We do. we're not powerless.
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  • If we'll start at our kitchen table
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  • And our holiday table in those friends circles.
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  • We can be difference makers.
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  • We've all got a sphere of influence.
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  • 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
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  • For a special time in history, and i'm so happy every day
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  • 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.
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  • What do you think?
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  • Well, stanley, i couldn't agree more.
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  • 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
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  • 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
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  • President trump came up with the label.
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  • And we've got an assignment.
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  • Finally, james
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  • Wrote, arrest
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  • The judges and attorneys that argue or interrupt
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  • The deportation of illegal aliens,
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  • Charge them
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  • With accessory to the crimes of those being deported.
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  • Well, i don't know about the legality of that.
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  • It's enough to make us want that to happen.
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