Don Bramer: Trump Administration on Global Relations | Allen Jackson Now

December 9, 2024 | 19:51

Allen Jackson interviews Don Bramer, a veteran and intelligence analyst, discussing the ongoing conflicts in Syria, Gaza, and Ukraine. They explore the complexities of the region, the impact of the incoming Trump administration on global relations, and the potential for peace in these troubled areas. They also touch on the release of hostages and the role of strength and courage in shaping world events.

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Allen Jackson NOW | Don Bramer: Trump Administration on Global Relations | Allen Jackson Now | December 9, 2024
  • Well, good evening and welcome from nashville.
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  • I'm alan jackson, and i'm glad you were able to join us.
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  • Much of the world is setting the table
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  • For the political change.
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  • It's about to take place in washington.
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  • The hot spots overseas are not getting any cooler.
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  • From russia and ukraine to israel and iran's terror
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  • Funded groups to china, north korea,
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  • Plus the thousands of foreigners co-mingled with our population
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  • Here, some of whom have already been
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  • Identified as known criminals who we know are up to no good.
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  • Now, add to that troubled mix a new flashpoint syria,
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  • Where an al-qaida breakaway group by the name of hdz
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  • Threatened the regime of president bashar al assad.
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  • Listen to how the secretary of state put it.
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  • What we've just seen in syria with the offensive by,
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  • Hdz reflects the fact, the fact that
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  • Assad's key backers, key, key allies, whether it's, russia,
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  • Whether it's hezbollah, whether it's iran,
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  • Have all in different ways been distracted,
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  • Notably by
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  • Problems of their own making.
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  • Well, what's going on in the region
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  • Is not just challenging, but confusing.
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  • It's not easy
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  • For any of us to follow the ebb and flow of the battlefield.
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  • The almost tribal barriers to peace.
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  • Well, fortunately, we have an exceptionally
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  • Qualified interpreter with us tonight.
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  • Don bremer has served his country on the battlefield.
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  • Capitol hill and the pentagon
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  • Providing advice and intelligence analysis
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  • At the highest level of government.
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  • It's a pleasure to welcome you back, don.
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  • Thank you. sir.
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  • It is my pleasure to be back here with you this evening.
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  • We need your expertise.
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  • Which side is the us on in syria?
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  • We've had our challenges with al assad.
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  • But is israel
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  • Better off?
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  • So as you look at syria, this has been an ongoing problem
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  • That goes all the way back to even the early days of the
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  • Past trump administration.
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  • There were crises going on there.
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  • There were those soldiers on the ground.
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  • That's where we found our al-baghdadi.
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  • So syria has all these factors.
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  • A lot of these factions come from al-qaida.
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  • They come from isis with isis, which are offshoot of al-qaida,
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  • From iran.
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  • So all these different pieces move around.
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  • They turn on each other because they're a very tribal
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  • Breed of people or clans
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  • That tend to change their enemies and change their friends
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  • On a day to day basis.
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  • So this continues on,
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  • And i believe that it'll be one
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  • Of the first things that president trump
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  • Has to deal with when he takes office in january.
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  • We'll talk to
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  • Us about this partial ceasefire in lebanon.
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  • There's a starting point with hezbollah need to come
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  • With continued attacks.
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  • I think one of the first things that we need to look at
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  • As both sides sit to the table is
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  • They need to come to
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  • A conditional cease fire with a cease and all attacks.
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  • That's the only way
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  • We're going to get to move a certain point forward
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  • Where the hostages can be set free.
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  • And i believe that
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  • We have to have those hostages every before trump.
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  • Trump takes office or we'll see a similar situation that we did
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  • When when reagan came in with the iran hostage crisis.
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  • You know, many decades ago.
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  • What?
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  • Let's what what's going on in gaza,
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  • How much of hamas has been taken out?
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  • And is there any hope of getting all those hostages out?
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  • U.s. and israeli.
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  • Well, guys have taken a huge hit
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  • Both on its civilian population but more importantly
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  • On its active members.
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  • They have they've suffered, but they continue to be dug in.
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  • They buried in the other tunnels.
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  • The one thing i think we really aren't sure of, and we know of,
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  • Is how many of the hostages are actually still alive.
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  • I think that would be one of the first things
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  • That if i were sitting down negotiating,
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  • I would ask for an active count of who's still living,
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  • What condition they're in and who has deceased.
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  • You know, here at home,
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  • The american jewish community is divided about gaza.
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  • Many support the continuing israeli attacks,
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  • And others condemn them.
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  • How much of a challenge is that with trump taking over soon?
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  • Or is he going to completely want to side with prime?
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  • The prime minister's plans?
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  • Well, i believe you know, israel and the jewish community,
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  • Just like the united states across borders, is a very,
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  • You know, politically polarized, faction right now.
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  • You have 5050 on each side.
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  • And a lot of,
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  • You know, his age base,
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  • A lot of younger people are very much influenced
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  • By what they see on social media.
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  • So they tend to lean more towards being pro-palestine.
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  • Trump, as we know, is very, very pro-israel.
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  • And he's certainly friends with, netanyahu.
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  • Matter of fact, you know, as most people
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  • I've seen just recently, the prime minister's wife
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  • And son were at mar-a-lago for dinner.
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  • President elect trump has said that he was
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  • The hostage is still held by hamas to be returned to israel
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  • Before his inauguration on january 20th.
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  • And if not, he says there will be hell to pay.
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  • There's not a lot of wiggle room there.
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  • How do you interpret that warning?
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  • Well, i don't believe there is any wiggle room.
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  • And i would say knowing that the way the president is engaged
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  • And already moving and putting pieces in place
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  • So that he is ready to go to work on day one,
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  • I would bet there are contingency plans
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  • Already in place
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  • For for actions to occur if those horses are free.
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  • On the day that he raises his right hand.
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  • To the north, the tenuous cease fire
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  • Between hezbollah and israel has both sides a bit on edge.
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  • Here's secretary blinken's take on it.
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  • The cease fire is holding,
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  • And we're using the mechanism that was established
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  • When any concerns have arisen, about any,
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  • Alleged or purported violations.
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  • I think fundamentally, both parties,
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  • That is to say, israel
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  • And hezbollah through the lebanese government
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  • Wanted and continue to want the cease fire.
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  • What is your hope for lebanon in this cease fire?
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  • What's next?
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  • You know, i'm optimistic about the cease fire.
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  • And like the secretary said, while we we don't agree a lot.
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  • I think it's good for both sides if this will work out.
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  • You know, the continued conflicts
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  • That we've seen on the israeli first with gaza
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  • And then on the israeli side with the with jordan,
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  • You know, it's costly, is costly in
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  • Civilian lives, it's
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  • Costly in property, and it's costly to the military.
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  • So it's a good thing if we can keep this and i'm
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  • Happy and i and i hope that they find a way to make it work.
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  • You know, in in both lebanon
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  • And syria, it seems there's really nobody in charge.
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  • And it's a playground for troublemakers.
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  • Is there any way, you know,
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  • This gets sorted out or does it remain confusing?
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  • You know, that part of the world,
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  • You know, hasn't changed a lot since since i was first there.
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  • And in iraq.
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  • It leaders change.
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  • It is very much a power grab.
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  • It is a grab for for whatever means you can have survival.
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  • So whoever is in charge today won't be in charge tomorrow.
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  • There's always a void that has to be filled. just.
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  • And it's a cultural thing that is taking place
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  • Throughout the muslim and islam community.
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  • Turkey seems to have stepped in in these last few days.
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  • Does that bring you any concern?
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  • I think anything with aragorn should always have some
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  • Concern to it.
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  • And also that we should be aware of.
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  • You know,
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  • Eragon is very much like one of those tribal warlords.
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  • You know, he's always going to be looking for.
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  • Where can he take power
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  • And where can he gain an extra foothold
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  • So that it puts him and turkey on a better stage
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  • For negotiating with the larger powers,
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  • Such as the united states and russia?
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  • We're going to turn the globe a bit and ask don bremmer
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  • About ukraine, russia and donald trump.
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  • Don't go anywhere.
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  • Don't go anywhere.
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  • We're back with don bramer.
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  • He's a veteran of combat.
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  • The pentagon and capitol hill.
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  • He's a gifted intelligence analyst.
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  • And we're turning our attention
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  • Now to another of the world's hotspots,
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  • The long war that russia started with ukraine.
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  • President trump has said he would end the war
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  • Between russia and ukraine within 24 hours.
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  • Do you think that's at all realistic?
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  • And what do you think he has in mind?
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  • First sign that the president elect did
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  • Was appointing, keith kellogg as his envoy to ukraine.
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  • The general has a he's very well respected in both
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  • The intelligence
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  • Arena, also with the military and the pentagon.
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  • I think he's going to be
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  • The right person to go over and lead this.
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  • He's very well known within the the defense industrial base.
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  • So he's a good guy to this.
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  • And i think that's a good first step.
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  • You know, and he has long said that he has no issues
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  • With supplying arms
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  • And supporting ukraine from a military standpoint.
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  • But there will be a condition on that that both sides,
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  • Both russia and ukraine,
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  • Would have to come back and sit at the table
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  • And have solid, meaningful discussions.
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  • One of the biggest things that the generals said
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  • Is that ukraine needs to look at lowering its draft age.
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  • You know, like the united states,
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  • When we had a draft, we were at 18.
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  • Ukraine still has a 25 year,
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  • Age set for its, its draft.
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  • And there's a lot of population are that or kind of lost.
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  • And both sides,
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  • Both russia and ukraine are losing its forces there.
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  • They've dwindled down
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  • With russia now bringing forces in from other countries
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  • To support its efforts.
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  • And ukraine itself is actually
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  • Getting low on manpower and needs to replenish those.
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  • As we go into more than a year where its fighting forces are
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  • Just getting tired.
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  • This war has resulted in a million casualties.
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  • That seems like a very high price to pay.
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  • It should be a lot of incentive for peace.
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  • You know, i hope that sometimes these are world leaders,
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  • Especially with zelensky and putin will allow pride
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  • To to put a backstage and let's end this war.
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  • And i think the worst person that will have
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  • To swallow his pride a little bit will be putin.
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  • You know, if you look at what he spent on
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  • Just the gdp for russia alone, you know, he's exhausted.
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  • What would be their
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  • Normal defense budget for at least the next ten years?
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  • He's exhausted a lot of their ammo suppliers.
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  • They're they're civilian casualties.
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  • So his resources are limited.
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  • And now he's going to have debts to play
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  • To to china, to north korea and iran.
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  • That's going to take him a long time to
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  • To negotiate back where he is in a place of power.
  • 00:10:27.618 --> 00:10:31.422
  • Well, the biden administration is playing a massive game
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  • Of beat the clock in its arms and financial aid to ukraine.
  • 00:10:35.093 --> 00:10:39.297
  • Their fear is they have to get as much moved as they can before
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  • The new administration takes over.
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  • What are your views on that?
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  • Well, there's no mistake that the biden family has long
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  • Rooted friendships and ties in ukraine.
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  • So they're absolutely going to take an opportunity to do this.
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  • You know,
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  • A lot of these large packages that they're pushing through,
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  • I wish people would read
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  • Between the lines of the one we just saw for for 24 billion.
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  • You know, it's and i hate to say that word only,
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  • But but only 8 billion of that actually go to ukraine.
  • 00:11:06.824 --> 00:11:10.495
  • The biggest chunk, the 16 billion, actually never leaves
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  • The united states.
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  • And it goes towards rebuilding
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  • And replenishing our own supplies that we've let go.
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  • Where do you see the arc of this war?
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  • What should ukraine be doing,
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  • Given that it has far fewer troops on the battlefield?
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  • I think ukraine is doing exceptionally
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  • Well with the technology that they have,
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  • The technology that they have been given
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  • From the united states, from norway and our other allies.
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  • They need to hold their ground.
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  • And i think as long as they hold their ground,
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  • They're going to be
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  • In a stronger position to negotiate with putin.
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  • They actually have the advantage here.
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  • They have the upper hand.
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  • So they just need to hold their ground, keep moving forward.
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  • And i think they're in a good place
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  • To to go to the negotiation table.
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  • Well, there have been some threats
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  • Bounced around
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  • Lately, maybe even saber rattling
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  • About the use of nuclear weapons.
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  • Do you think that's just talk is a negotiating strategy
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  • Or is that a real threat on our horizon?
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  • You know, it's always a threat that that's out there, sir.
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  • All it takes is one bad moment, one misjudge
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  • For for something that just catastrophic to happen.
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  • I hope it's rhetoric and i hope it's, saber rattling,
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  • But, you know, no one ever knows the true mental state,
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  • Of putin and knows, you know, what is possible,
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  • When you sometimes when you have a world leader
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  • Who feels like they have nothing else to lose,
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  • And that's when they make the worst mistakes.
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  • Well, i think maybe there's a connection.
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  • Hezbollah has been weakened a little bit north of israel.
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  • It looks like russia is focusing
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  • Some attention back into that region again
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  • With that redirection of attention.
  • 00:12:46.791 --> 00:12:48.392
  • Maybe allow them to let the ukraine settle down a bit.
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  • You know, ukraine may need to settle down
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  • With, you know, russia, you know, like like israel.
  • 00:12:54.131 --> 00:12:56.868
  • They have,
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  • Military operations going on in several different fronts,
  • 00:12:58.069 --> 00:13:01.305
  • And they have a weakened economy.
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  • And they're borrowing,
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  • They're borrowing borrowing from china and north korea.
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  • So they're looking to really consolidate their resources.
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  • And it could have a tight you know, their
  • 00:13:10.281 --> 00:13:12.250
  • Their manpower is limited. almost gone.
  • 00:13:12.250 --> 00:13:15.152
  • So their fighting forces is going down to no.
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  • And they certainly don't
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  • Have the ammo, the tanks, the other vehicles that they had
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  • Because they've lost them to the ukraine, ukraine conflict.
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  • Well, i want to ask you a bigger picture question.
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  • With the return of mr. trump on the horizon.
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  • There seems to be a projection of strength
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  • In a way that the biden administration has not.
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  • What's the impact of that
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  • Globally on both our allies and our adversaries?
  • 00:13:38.976 --> 00:13:42.046
  • Well, i think if you look at the previous trump
  • 00:13:43.047 --> 00:13:45.883
  • Administration when he was in office,
  • 00:13:45.883 --> 00:13:47.785
  • We already have a taste of what this administration is going to
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  • Look like.
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  • And especially if you look at the void
  • 00:13:52.657 --> 00:13:55.326
  • And the absence of leadership
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  • That we've had under the biden administration,
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  • We have a good feel of what's going to be there.
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  • But i think
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  • What people aren't looking at is this time the president
  • 00:14:01.332 --> 00:14:03.668
  • Is not going to be able to run for reelection.
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  • He knows who his allies are,
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  • And he's putting
  • 00:14:08.139 --> 00:14:09.340
  • The right people in place who are not worried about polls.
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  • They're not worried about offending anyone.
  • 00:14:12.209 --> 00:14:14.812
  • They're more concerned with
  • 00:14:14.812 --> 00:14:16.480
  • Putting america into a place of strength,
  • 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:19.250
  • And they're going to be doing whatever it takes,
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  • And they're not going to be afraid to take risk.
  • 00:14:20.985 --> 00:14:23.220
  • This also is kind of like a new freedom
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  • That the president will have.
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  • And also the,
  • 00:14:27.224 --> 00:14:28.259
  • The allies that he puts in his cabinet, that it's
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  • More about getting the job done.
  • 00:14:30.728 --> 00:14:32.096
  • If i were a world leader, that was one of our adversaries.
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  • I'd be concerned right now that what trump says
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  • And what he's already put in place
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  • Just in the last two months, is going to come to
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  • Fruition on 20th january.
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  • Well, i've got just a few seconds,
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  • But i got one more question.
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  • Do you think with mr.
  • 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:49.880
  • Trump in that projected strength, taiwan will
  • 00:14:49.880 --> 00:14:51.949
  • I mean, china will step back from their ambitions towards
  • 00:14:51.949 --> 00:14:55.119
  • Taiwan, at least for a bit.
  • 00:14:55.119 --> 00:14:58.089
  • I think they will, at least for the next few years.
  • 00:14:58.089 --> 00:15:00.124
  • You know, china had their way.
  • 00:15:00.124 --> 00:15:02.626
  • Were they they knew, how to play
  • 00:15:02.626 --> 00:15:05.529
  • President biden's dance card,
  • 00:15:05.529 --> 00:15:07.198
  • But they also know that there is that's a different person
  • 00:15:07.198 --> 00:15:10.368
  • On the floor when it's with president trump.
  • 00:15:10.368 --> 00:15:12.503
  • So i look at as president moves forward, ukraine with israel
  • 00:15:12.503 --> 00:15:16.507
  • And taiwan.
  • 00:15:16.507 --> 00:15:17.408
  • That's going to change across the globe.
  • 00:15:17.408 --> 00:15:18.943
  • And i think that taiwan will be stronger
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  • And realize that they actually have a new friend in washington.
  • 00:15:21.412 --> 00:15:25.349
  • Well, don bramer,
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  • Thank you for giving us a global tour of american policy.
  • 00:15:26.951 --> 00:15:30.388
  • We've learned a lot,
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  • And i hope you'll come back and see you soon.
  • 00:15:31.422 --> 00:15:33.491
  • Any time.
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  • Sir, you have a blessed holiday and christmas,
  • 00:15:34.458 --> 00:15:36.594
  • And we look forward to seeing you soon.
  • 00:15:36.594 --> 00:15:39.163
  • You as well.
  • 00:15:39.163 --> 00:15:40.664
  • Well, stay with us.
  • 00:15:40.664 --> 00:15:41.866
  • I have a personal message for you right after this break.
  • 00:15:41.866 --> 00:15:49.005
  • I have a personal message for you right after this break.
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  • When?
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  • October the 7th first happened,
  • 00:15:52.644 --> 00:15:54.012
  • I looked at the president or the state department
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  • To say something, to do something of significance.
  • 00:15:55.981 --> 00:15:59.718
  • I went to washington, d.c., to the israeli embassy
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  • And watched the security tapes
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  • Of the horrific attacks from hamas and the terrorist.
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  • Instead, we got almost no leadership,
  • 00:16:07.492 --> 00:16:09.628
  • No show of strength from the white house for over a year.
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  • Only passivity.
  • 00:16:12.764 --> 00:16:14.266
  • Well, hostages, including american hostages,
  • 00:16:14.266 --> 00:16:17.536
  • Have endured suffering beyond imagination.
  • 00:16:17.536 --> 00:16:20.872
  • Well, now president elect trump
  • 00:16:20.872 --> 00:16:22.174
  • Has come along and calls on hamas
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  • To release all the hostages
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  • Prior to when he takes office on january 20th.
  • 00:16:25.710 --> 00:16:29.014
  • The tone in israel, it changed with that one statement.
  • 00:16:29.014 --> 00:16:33.218
  • Netanyahu reacted by saying president trump
  • 00:16:33.218 --> 00:16:35.487
  • Put the emphasis in the right place on hamas
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  • And not on the israeli government,
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  • As has been customary almost everywhere else.
  • 00:16:40.092 --> 00:16:43.295
  • Well, when wisdom is expressed, it puts into stark
  • 00:16:43.295 --> 00:16:45.764
  • Contrast the foolishness that has been present.
  • 00:16:45.764 --> 00:16:49.468
  • There's a verse in deuteronomy that i think is appropriate.
  • 00:16:49.468 --> 00:16:51.670
  • It's chapter 31 and verse 23.
  • 00:16:51.670 --> 00:16:54.139
  • God gave this commandment to joshua.
  • 00:16:54.139 --> 00:16:55.907
  • He said, be strong and courageous.
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  • For you'll bring the israelites into the land
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  • I promised them on oath, and i myself will be with you.
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  • Look, here's the reality.
  • 00:17:03.949 --> 00:17:04.916
  • We live in a dark world filled with turmoil.
  • 00:17:04.916 --> 00:17:07.819
  • Strength and clarity shine through.
  • 00:17:07.819 --> 00:17:10.222
  • When god's opinion is expressed, when we as christ
  • 00:17:10.222 --> 00:17:13.592
  • Followers will speak up, we give god something to work
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  • With, to utilize.
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  • When we take the position of courage.
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  • God promises to work with us.
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  • I believe that with god's help, we can see barriers
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  • That seem immovable. yield.
  • 00:17:25.937 --> 00:17:29.040
  • We have been frightened or fearful,
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  • Or at least timid for far too long.
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  • We need the courage to tell the truth.
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  • Starts at our kitchen table.
  • 00:17:37.649 --> 00:17:39.351
  • We can expand it to our holiday table
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  • And then to the table of our friends and acquaintances.
  • 00:17:41.753 --> 00:17:44.456
  • But the change begins with us, not washington, d.c.
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  • We'll do that.
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  • There's more reason for hope than despair.
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  • A promise.
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  • Well, i'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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  • Well, i'll be back in just a moment with your emails.
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  • Thank you for taking the time to send your emails.
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  • We very much look forward to reading them.
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  • Scott, from oklahoma, said biden said he would not issue
  • 00:18:10.283 --> 00:18:13.052
  • A pardon for his son, but now he did.
  • 00:18:13.052 --> 00:18:15.821
  • Is trump right in calling it abuse?
  • 00:18:15.821 --> 00:18:19.358
  • You know, i have, in watching mr.
  • 00:18:20.092 --> 00:18:22.061
  • Trump and his first,
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  • Election and now in his second campaign,
  • 00:18:25.064 --> 00:18:29.202
  • I have had to adjust my attitude
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  • With the first time i heard mr.
  • 00:18:30.836 --> 00:18:31.871
  • Trump look at the media and call him fake news.
  • 00:18:31.871 --> 00:18:34.340
  • I cringed, and then i heard him talk about the weaponization
  • 00:18:34.340 --> 00:18:38.711
  • Of the justice system, and i cringed.
  • 00:18:38.711 --> 00:18:42.014
  • I have to admit, as i've watched through the years,
  • 00:18:42.014 --> 00:18:44.116
  • He was telling us the truth before most of us had the wisdom
  • 00:18:44.116 --> 00:18:46.886
  • Or the courage to recognize it, or certainly to speak about it.
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  • I don't agree with the pardon of hunter biden,
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  • Particularly on the heels of month
  • 00:18:53.926 --> 00:18:55.628
  • After month in the midst of an election
  • 00:18:55.628 --> 00:18:57.430
  • Saying you wouldn't do it.
  • 00:18:57.430 --> 00:18:59.298
  • So i understand the difficulty, the position.
  • 00:18:59.298 --> 00:19:02.001
  • But on this one, i'm going to have to give mr.
  • 00:19:02.001 --> 00:19:03.569
  • Trump the nod.
  • 00:19:03.569 --> 00:19:04.870
  • I think what he's saying and calling it
  • 00:19:04.870 --> 00:19:06.339
  • Abuse is an accurate description.
  • 00:19:06.339 --> 00:19:09.575
  • It's like finally, michael g.
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  • From palm city, florida.
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  • I appreciate your program. and finally informative.
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  • I just finished watching the episode concerning abortion.
  • 00:19:15.181 --> 00:19:18.184
  • We haven't given our founding fathers the credit they deserve.
  • 00:19:18.184 --> 00:19:20.853
  • They settle the issue of abortion of american children
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  • In both the declaration of independence
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  • And the constitution.
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  • I agree, michael, the founders have been
  • 00:19:26.959 --> 00:19:29.962
  • Criticized now for several decades.
  • 00:19:29.962 --> 00:19:32.531
  • They gave all of us a gift. we should be thankful.
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