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Allen Jackson: Pressure on President Trump to Join Israel's War | Allen Jackson Now

June 19, 2025 | 21:32

Allen Jackson: Pressure on President Trump to Join Israel's War | Allen Jackson Now
Captain Chuck Nash joins Allen Jackson to discuss the pressure President Donald Trump is under to join Israel's war.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: Pressure on President Trump to Join Israel's War | Allen Jackson Now | June 19, 2025
  • Well.
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  • Good evening.
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  • I'm alan jackson, and welcome to nashville.
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  • It's been said that the job of the us
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  • President is the loneliest job in the world.
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  • Dwight eisenhower once said that no one who does have to bear
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  • The specific
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  • And direct responsibility of making the final decision
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  • As to what to do, can understand the intensity of the burdens.
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  • Well, general eisenhower wrote that when he was trying
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  • To determine the date for the d-day invasion,
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  • President trump is likely feeling
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  • That same weight
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  • As he considers his options about what to do with iran.
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  • Israel has set the table,
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  • But there's a lot of pressure on the president
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  • Because, like prime minister netanyahu, he also said
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  • That iran will never be allowed to have nuclear weapons.
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  • Listen to his comment.
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  • We've been threatened by iran for many years.
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  • And if you go back and look at my history,
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  • If you go back 15 years, i would say we cannot let around
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  • Yet a nuclear weapon.
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  • I've been saying it for a long time.
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  • I mean it more now than i ever met.
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  • Well, after days of shelling,
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  • The biggest thing left in the iranian nuclear
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  • Development program is the vast fordo plant south of tehran.
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  • It's so deeply hidden in the ground
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  • That it can only be taken out by the 30,000 pound
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  • American bunker buster bombs.
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  • With that, we've asked for an early return visit
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  • Of our senior military analyst, captain chuck nash.
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  • Thank you for coming back on today, captain.
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  • My pleasure.
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  • Before we talk about bombing iran's nuclear plant,
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  • Let's talk through some of the other possibilities.
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  • Beginning with an iranian population
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  • Takeover, takeover of their government,
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  • Maybe ousting the ayatollah and what's left of his team.
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  • At that point, a new government could make peace with the west
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  • And shut down the plant with no bombs being dropped.
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  • Is that a realistic possibility?
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  • I don't know.
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  • At this point, i think what would have to happen
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  • Is some of the regional,
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  • The siege and, republican guard,
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  • The revolutionary guard units would have to be taken out.
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  • In other words, if the mullahs survive
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  • But have no forces to enforce their their will on the people,
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  • Then it's possible if the israelis start striking
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  • The provincial, guard units and besiege units,
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  • Then that would signal to the people that,
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  • The mullahs are basically powerless to work against them.
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  • So that's what i would keep an eye on right there.
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  • Well, russia and china
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  • Have been relatively quiet so far, though.
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  • German german is openly supports a u.s.
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  • Strike on iran.
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  • Members of congress.
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  • They're mixed in their support
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  • Somewhat to make the world a more peaceful place.
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  • And they don't trust anything that the ayatollah says.
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  • And there's others still afraid the u.s.
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  • Will get mired in another war
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  • In the streets of tehran, or almost empty.
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  • What do you think's the most likely option?
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  • I think the most likely option is for
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  • If the iranian mullahs do not surrender,
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  • As trump has demanded, then i believe that he's going
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  • To use, the b twos and the bunker busters.
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  • We will take down the fordo, fuel enrichment plant,
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  • As well as some other targets inside of iran.
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  • The navy carrier strike groups that are there,
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  • Carry not only the f-18s, but they also carry
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  • The f-18, g, the growler, which are the jamming platforms.
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  • So any air defense systems that the israelis have not taken
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  • Out will be jammed so that the b-2 can go in.
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  • They're stealthy,
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  • But they like to have the electronic warfare coverage.
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  • So the electronic attack.
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  • Marid.
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  • With the bunker busters will eliminate, that fordo plant.
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  • And when that happens, the mullahs truly are powerless.
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  • They've got nothing there. hezbollah,
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  • And hamas surrogates have been destroyed.
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  • Their nuclear capability has been destroyed,
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  • And a lot of their conventional forces have been destroyed.
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  • So they're just lying naked in the gutter.
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  • And so at that point,
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  • They have to realize that surrender
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  • Would have been their best option.
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  • The best time for them to surrender is not then.
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  • It's now before all that happens.
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  • Both sides.
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  • Pastor, both of these sides are in a death match
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  • Because they both face existential threat.
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  • Israel.
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  • Its existential threat is a nuclear iran.
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  • They cannot accept that to continue iran's
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  • Existential threat is losing their nuclear threat.
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  • And possibly a decapitation strike
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  • On the mullahs as the decapitation strikes
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  • And hamas and hezbollah have played out.
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  • Well, here's another factor that may be contributing
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  • To the ayatollahs stubborn behavior.
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  • It's been reported that the remaining senior staff
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  • That's advising him
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  • May be feeding him
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  • Inaccurate information about how iran is doing,
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  • Trying to keep him happy by telling him
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  • That his military is doing better than it really is.
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  • Is that really a factor?
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  • It could be.
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  • There are also
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  • Rumors that he has turned over a conduct of the war
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  • To the head of the islamic revolutionary guard corps.
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  • So at this point, it's very difficult to figure out
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  • Who is really running the show.
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  • But as far as the people of iran are being told,
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  • I'm sure they're being told that it is, khamenei, the,
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  • Their supreme leader,
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  • They cannot let that go,
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  • Because if they do, then it's back to your original question.
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  • Is it possible that there could be a civil uprising?
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  • There are two major factors in that.
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  • One is what we'll call the royal factor,
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  • Which is the son of the shah.
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  • Possibly,
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  • Reza pahlavi
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  • And the national council of resistance in iran.
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  • The ncri,
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  • Which the main faction there is the mujahedeen account.
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  • So one would be a return to a royal,
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  • Set up.
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  • The other would be kind of a grassroots,
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  • Organization.
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  • And either way, it's the people of iran
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  • Who will need to figure out what kind of government
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  • They want going forward and not have imposed on them
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  • By any outside forces.
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  • Well, it seems to me there's another piece of this puzzle,
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  • And it's the potential for the ayatollah
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  • To trigger renegade iranians here
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  • Who snuck in when our border was open.
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  • These past four years.
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  • The gateways
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  • Who could be roaming the us
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  • Right now waiting for a cue to attack from tehran.
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  • No, they don't have nuclear weapons.
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  • But with a drone from an electronics store
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  • And a homemade bomb,
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  • They could damage anywhere in the country.
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  • Is there any way we can be prepa
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  • We have so much of our infrastructure
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  • Totally defenseless.
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  • And the reason is, is in an economic society such as ours,
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  • You want everything
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  • To be open and available so that people will use it.
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  • They'll buy your product, they'll use your service.
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  • So everything is essentially out there,
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  • Taking down power substations
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  • And causing blackouts in the grid.
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  • Very, very easy to do.
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  • Plus.
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  • The other thing is just pure terror.
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  • I mean, what could a group,
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  • As you point out, to like a million
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  • And a half, 2 million got ways.
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  • How many of them?
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  • Would be able to get weapons
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  • And do terror attacks, like,
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  • Happened in the opera house in russia,
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  • Where a bunch of terrorists went in
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  • And just started slaughtering people. you could do that.
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  • I mean,
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  • Think of all the soft targets in this country.
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  • Good.
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  • Starting at grammar schools, churches and synagogues.
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  • Oh, yeah, it could be.
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  • It could be really bloody.
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  • Well, captain ash, please stay with us for another segment.
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  • We're back now with captain chuck nash,
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  • And we're discussing the various options
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  • That the
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  • President has to shut down iran's nuclear weapons program.
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  • We keep hearing about u.s.
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  • Military assets,
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  • Some of which are still on the way to the war zone.
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  • Is this part of what the president's
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  • Waiting for before he makes a final decision
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  • About what to do in concert with israel?
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  • I believe so.
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  • Over the last several days,
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  • Military assets have been flowing into,
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  • And being pre-positioned in the region.
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  • We've got two carrier strike groups,
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  • As well as a bunch of, tankers.
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  • U.s. air force tankers have moved into europe.
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  • That's important,
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  • Because if the beatles were to come across and be used,
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  • They would have to tank multiple times, from whiteman air
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  • Force base to get to the target, in inside of, iran.
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  • So all of the support assets are being positioned,
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  • And that should tell the mullahs one last time.
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  • He's not bluffing.
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  • He is not bluffing.
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  • Look at the reality.
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  • Not only what you've lost so far,
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  • But the potential for devastation going forward.
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  • He said he's going to make that decision in the next two weeks.
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  • I believe he's already made the decision.
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  • It's when to execute it and he's giving peace one last chance.
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  • Well, i want to ask about something
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  • That i haven't really heard any reporting on,
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  • Despite all the focus on the nuclear stations already hit,
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  • As well as the big one at fordo
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  • That would need the big bunker buster bombs to shake it up.
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  • Is it possible that iran has another nuclear facility
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  • That neither the israeli nor the us intelligence is aware of?
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  • Yeah, that falls into the category, pastor.
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  • If you don't know what you don't know. and,
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  • There could be, but,
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  • The the issue here is,
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  • You need a facility
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  • With thousands of centrifuges,
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  • And that's where fordo comes into play.
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  • We watched it being built, via satellite.
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  • Israelis claim to have blueprints of the facility.
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  • So, something that large is
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  • What is needed to to really get you to where you need to go.
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  • You don't want to build just one nuke.
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  • They want to have multiples.
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  • And what are they going to do with them?
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  • I don't know, maybe ballistic missiles into israel?
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  • A a, you know, a nation state
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  • That's the size of new jersey
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  • And of the 15 million core jews on the planet.
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  • 7 million of them live
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  • In that small state.
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  • So several nuclear weapons into their would be
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  • Turned that into the largest jewish concentration camp
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  • In history and would make what hitler did pale in comparison.
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  • The other 6 million jews live in the united states.
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  • And then 2 million scattered
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  • Throughout europe and south america.
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  • So it would be absolutely devastating, which is why,
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  • Prime minister netanyahu, he's not playing either.
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  • This has got to come to an end.
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  • Either the iranians are going to give it up,
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  • Or it will be taken from them.
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  • Either way, it's going to happen.
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  • Well, iran hit a hospital in israel today.
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  • They've committed other war crimes.
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  • Israel's ambassador to the united nations has spoken
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  • About the moral line between israel and iran.
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  • Listen to his remarks.
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  • Iran's goal is to kill as many civilians as possible.
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  • They are not hiding it.
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  • They are boasting about it.
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  • That is the moral line between us.
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  • Iran aims its resources at children
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  • While we target the regime's terrible machine.
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  • You know, that may mean something in the west,
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  • But does the ayatollah care about it?
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  • Now, there's no moral equivalency here.
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  • And when you see these demonstrations
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  • In the united states against u.s.
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  • Actions supporting israel, it's the same group of people
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  • Who were demonstrating in support of hamas.
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  • You know what?
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  • If whatever it takes to hurt israel,
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  • That's what they're doing.
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  • So the american left is actually tying in
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  • With people who intentionally
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  • Use big weapons against defenseless civilians.
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  • They're tied into that.
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  • So maybe a little self-reflection would do them
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  • Some good.
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  • Well, what else should we look for in the days ahead?
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  • And should we assume that when or if the us attack happens?
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  • We'll only know it after it's been conducted?
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  • I think so.
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  • I think operational security on this
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  • Is going to be very, very tight. but,
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  • I'm sure the media has whiteman air force base staked out,
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  • And we'll be looking for the launch
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  • Of 6 to 12 betas.
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  • And if that happens, then it's just a matter of doing the math
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  • And figuring out how long it's going to take them to get there.
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  • But we're not going to launch 6 to 12 betas
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  • Just so they can fly around.
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  • They're going to be going somewhere.
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  • And i think we all know where that somewhere is.
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  • Well,
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  • Captain ash, thank you again for your time today.
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  • Your experience.
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  • It is very helpful to us.
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  • My pleasure.
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  • In a moment, i'll have some hopeful thoughts of my own.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • We'll be right back.
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  • Israel has been at war for over 600 days
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  • After hamas brutally massacred innocent israeli civilians.
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  • There's a new chapter in that conflict.
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  • The confrontation with iran has become more direct.
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  • Israeli planes have been over iran targeting nuclear
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  • Facilities, rocket launchers, weapons factories
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  • And the islamic republic's military wing.
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  • Iran, on the other hand, is shooting
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  • Ballistic missiles into civilian areas in israel,
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  • Targeting hospitals and apartments.
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  • The iranian ayatollah said that the u.s.
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  • Would suffer
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  • Irreparable damage if it joined the israeli strikes on iran.
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  • The comments came as president trump left open the possibility
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  • Of participating in the military operation
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  • Against iran's nuclear facilities.
  • 00:15:45.505 --> 00:15:48.374
  • Now, so much of the discussion i've heard in the public
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  • Square has questioned
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  • The appropriateness of what israel is doing.
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  • More to the point,
  • 00:15:55.548 --> 00:15:56.449
  • There's been a repeated desire expressed,
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  • That the united states should not be a part of this conflict.
  • 00:15:58.551 --> 00:16:02.588
  • Well, the same voices that were cheering us to go into
  • 00:16:02.588 --> 00:16:05.191
  • Ukraine flying ukrainian flags and wearing ukrainian pins.
  • 00:16:05.191 --> 00:16:08.594
  • Those same voices are now
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  • Decrying our involvement
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  • With what's going on between israel and iran.
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  • I've heard confusion, equivocation,
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  • And a lot of opinions i simply don't agree with.
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  • Iran has spent decades pursuing nuclear weapons.
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  • They've said that once they secure them,
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  • They would eliminate israel and attack the united states.
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  • Although i've learned anything from my engagement
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  • In the middle east,
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  • It's this
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  • That when your adversary
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  • Tells you what they intend to do, believe them.
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  • It's not a place where idle threats tend to carry the day.
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  • I think u.s.
  • 00:16:39.292 --> 00:16:40.460
  • Involvement makes perfect sense to deny it or ignore it.
  • 00:16:40.460 --> 00:16:43.262
  • That puts all of us in a very precarious position.
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  • You know, to me, this isn't fundamentally a political issue.
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  • Our response to israel doesn't begin
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  • With geopolitical strategy or military capacity.
  • 00:16:51.437 --> 00:16:54.774
  • Israel and the jewish people are just another country
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  • Or another ethnic group.
  • 00:16:57.210 --> 00:16:58.878
  • They hold a unique place in god's economy,
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  • And we as christians need a biblical understanding
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  • Of who the jewish people are and the role god intends for them.
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  • You know, i know some might say,
  • 00:17:08.254 --> 00:17:09.455
  • Don't bring the bible into this, but it's about the bible.
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  • If we don't believe the word of god should be
  • 00:17:12.091 --> 00:17:13.726
  • Engaged in current culture, then our bibles are useless.
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  • We're in the midst of a spiritual conflict
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  • That's being waged throughout the earth.
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  • God is shaking the earth
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  • So we can see what's trustworthy and what is not.
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  • And the only thing that will remain is god's word.
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  • We've got to pay attention to it. we'll do that.
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  • There's more reasons for hope than despair.
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  • I promise in a moment i'll be back with your emails.
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  • I promise in a moment i'll be back with your emails.
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  • Thank you for spending a few minutes with us
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  • This evening.
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  • If you ever missed the live broadcast,
  • 00:17:52.598 --> 00:17:54.066
  • You can always go to aj now. dot com.
  • 00:17:54.066 --> 00:17:56.202
  • They're archived there
  • 00:17:56.202 --> 00:17:57.503
  • Along with a lot of other information about our program.
  • 00:17:57.503 --> 00:17:59.639
  • I think it'll be a help.
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  • Thank you for your emails, glenna emailed.
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  • Heaven has strict immigration laws.
  • 00:18:04.510 --> 00:18:06.812
  • Hell has open borders.
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  • In second chronicles 713, god shows his people what he will do
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  • If his people return to him and pray.
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  • We are losing our nation if we don't.
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  • Glenna, you have out preached the preacher good work.
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  • Mel from south carolina said, thank you for inviting
  • 00:18:21.994 --> 00:18:24.797
  • Ron dermer on the show.
  • 00:18:24.797 --> 00:18:25.998
  • He is accurate and he shares facts.
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  • I hope this program gets to many american homes
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  • So they learn what is really behind the war
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  • And learn to value our american heritage.
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  • God bless israel and the israeli people.
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  • Well, i was moved by what mr.
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  • Dermer had to say encouraging americans to love our nation.
  • 00:18:40.146 --> 00:18:44.617
  • Honestly, i would expect that message
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  • To come from our leaders, from our universities,
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  • From our classrooms.
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  • In its absence, i'm glad god is raising up
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  • Voices around the earth to remind us
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  • That what he has done
  • 00:18:55.161 --> 00:18:56.395
  • In the united states of america is about the blessing of god
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  • More than it is our ingenuity.
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  • And finally, jerry from missouri.
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  • So thank you, pastor allen,
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  • For your spiritual insight into turbulent times.
  • 00:19:05.404 --> 00:19:08.241
  • Many pastors are staying away from the social issues.
  • 00:19:08.241 --> 00:19:11.043
  • I believe jesus clearly said to occupy until he returns.
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  • Well, jerry, i believe that first and foremost,
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  • Our source of truth, objective truth, is the word of god.
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  • But then the assignment is what to do with that truth
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  • In the midst of the world in which we live.
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  • We can't hide in our churches and do bible studies
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  • About what happened in the first century.
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  • God called us to the 21st century.
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  • He's given us access to the word of god.
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  • Now we need the courage
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  • To take that forward, and the wisdom
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  • To listen to the direction of the holy spirit.
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  • If we'll do that,
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  • I believe there's a future that's bright
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  • For our children and grandchildren
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  • If we forfeit that.
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  • I'm very concerned.
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  • Thank you
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  • For spending a few minutes with us this evening.
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  • Your e-mails are always a highlight.
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  • I'm alan jackson, and i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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