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Charlie Kirk Today | Kurt Schlichter: November 7, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today | November 7, 2025
- Brought to you in part by the
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- International fellowship of christians and jews.
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- Honored to be with you all.
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- And what an evening this was the first time network
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- Television live primetime with jesse waters.
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- Let's show the clips. let's, let's do it.
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- Well, actually, i, i want to i just want to. okay. yeah.
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- Go ahead.
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- You pick the first clip, let's do,
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- Let's just do clip 250.
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- You told your children that charlie was going
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- On a work trip with jesus.
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- Are they still asking where's daddy?
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- Yes, my daughter
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- Continues to ask, but it's really sweet
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- Because i keep explaining to her a few things.
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- And i said, if ever you want to talk to daddy,
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- You just look up to the sky and start talking to him.
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- He can hear you, i told her, i said,
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- You know,
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- Daddy, daddy is in heaven.
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- She goes, do you think i could go sometime?
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- I said, baby,
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- We will all go one day.
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- We will all go one day.
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- Yeah.
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- I mean i don't know about you blake,
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- But the kid clips specifically i just a lot of people
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- Clipped them put them on social media but i just,
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- There is something crazy hard
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- To watch about to get clips.
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- Anyways.
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- Keep it.
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- God, we saw the hats being fun.
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- I put my phone down
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- And it was on silent, so i have no reason to look back at it.
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- When i moved my mom, i went back to grab my phone,
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- And that's when mikey started calling me.
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- Call me. within seconds,
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- I, called erica.
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- I remember it rang like 3 or 4 times.
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- I didn't know what to say.
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- Those are the words that will change someone's life forever.
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- And you have to be the one to say it
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- As the first time i've ever called her
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- During a campus tour stop.
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- And so mikey called me.
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- And i'll never forget.
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- I'm just being like, charlie's been shot,
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- He's been shot.
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- Get the kids, get security, get the kids, get the kids.
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- He's been shot.
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- I sprinted out of her treatment center,
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- Just collapsed in the middle of the parking lot.
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- The fact that he never called her from an event was because
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- There was no need to, you know, let's keep going here.
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- Let's do you know,
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- This is another one i thought was interesting?
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- She's saying,
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- That she's just not going to ever actually look at the
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- Video herself. let's do 377.
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- There's certain
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- Things you see in your life that mark your soul forever.
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- I want my husband's
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- Public assassination
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- To be something i ever see.
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- I don't want my kids to ever see that.
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- And for people who actually enjoy watching that,
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- Which is quite literally sick.
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- What if that was your father
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- Or your brother or your sister?
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- It's a perspective shift there.
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- We're human.
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- Life is fragile.
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- And there's
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- So much beauty in this world.
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- Why would you waste any portion
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- Of your life looking at something so evil?
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- And, you know, one last one.
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- Because i really wish you could play all of these,
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- But a lot of people have sent us stuff.
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- They've sent us things into, you know, the office,
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- Into the studio.
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- And i think, you know, they might wonder how that's gone.
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- And so erica actually showed jesse what we've been doing
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- With that.
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- Yeah.
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- So let's play.
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- 363 oh my goodness. i know
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- Everyone's sending
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- All of this here.
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- They received tens of thousands of letters,
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- Cards, gifts, personal bibles, paintings, and more.
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- A lot of this is from when people came to the campus,
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- The turning point usa offices, and left it outside the gates.
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- Also, a lot has been mailed.
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- I mean, it's just unbelievably humbling,
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- But this is all mail.
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- I told them not to throw anything away.
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- I want every single card saved for my kids
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- And for when.
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- If the day gets hard at your desk,
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- You come in in this mail room and i want you to come in
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- And i want you to pick up
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- Any of these cards, and i want you to read it
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- So you can put it into perspective. why you work here?
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- Oh my gosh, i need to stop in there.
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- I haven't actually gone. yeah, i haven't gone in yet.
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- I know, i know, it is there.
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- I should go by later today.
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- In genesis
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- 12 three, god made a powerful promise
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- To abraham, the father of the jewish people.
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- I will bless those who bless you.
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- The christian bible tells us that we have been grafted
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- Into god's family tree, the rich olive tree of israel.
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- The very foundations of the christian faith,
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- The bible and jesus, whom christians call
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- The messiah, are deeply rooted in israel.
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- Supporting israel aligns christians with god's
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- Prophetic timeline.
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- It demonstrates our willingness to be instruments of
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- God's blessing, uplifting his chosen people,
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- And it calls us to confront and heal
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- The centuries old wounds of anti-semitism.
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- The scripture says how good and how
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- Pleasant it is when brethren dwell together.
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- You can be part of this historic movement
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- Of bringing light to our world.
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- Learn more by going to ifc.
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- J.org today.
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- J.org today.
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- Our first guest of the day, kurt schlichter.
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- Kurt, you're a senior columnist at town hall.
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- You have a new piece out, actually,
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- That we're going to get to in just a second.
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- But, you know,
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- We've been going through clips of erica's interview,
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- The first the exclusive first with jesse waters
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- Last night,
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- And we're getting to a couple more pieces, and i want to
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- We'll get you in on the reaction for this.
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- But there's a there's a clip just talking about, you know,
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- Blake, you set it up.
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- You set it up.
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- Oh. do you want the one on, on cameras?
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- Yeah. yeah, yeah, i believe that is. sorry.
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- We're just got behind here.
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- It is 374.
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- The defense wants to ban cameras in the courtroom.
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- How do you feel about that?
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- There were cameras all over my husband
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- When he was murdered.
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- There have been cameras all over
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- My friends and family mourning.
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- There have been cameras all over me.
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- Analyzing my every move,
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- Analyzing my every smile,
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- My every tear.
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- We deserve to have cameras in there.
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- Why not be transparent?
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- There's nothing to hide.
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- I know there's not.
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- Because i've seen what the case is built on.
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- Let everyone see what true evil is.
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- This is something
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- That could impact a generation and generations to come.
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- Bring us into that courtroom.
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- What is the deliberation even you know, about cameras
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- Or no cameras explained that to us.
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- Clearly,
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- For for some reason, the defense doesn't think
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- It's going to be to their benefit
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- To have, cameras in the courtroom. and.
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- Look, i, i defended, people in civil cases.
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- I also brought cases.
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- I get it.
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- And,
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- It is important that we protect the rights of this
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- Accused person.
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- After all, if he's found guilty of what
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- He did, he's likely to get the death penalty.
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- And if he's guilty of it, he'll deserve it.
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- I think every american
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- Has a right to see how justice is done.
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- Trials are public.
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- You can go there.
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- I don't understand why you can't have cameras there.
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- And yes, sometimes lawyers play to the cameras, okay?
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- They play to the jury all the time.
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- That's why you have a judge to say,
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- Calm down, counsel, this is a serious matter.
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- I expect you to pay him like a serious, attorney
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- With the appropriate level of respect
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- And the appropriate level of dignity
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- That this, situation, demands.
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- Look, eric is absolutely right.
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- The american people have a right to see this evidence.
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- They have a right to see if it proves him guilty.
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- They have a right to see if the state can't make its case
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- Again.
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- We're we are attempting as as a government.
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- We're attempting to take the life of this man.
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- He's up for the death penalty.
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- He should be up for the death penalty if he can be proven
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- Beyond a reasonable doubt to have done what he did. now,
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- Do i do i believe that the evidence is very strong?
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- I believe it's very strong.
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- I believe he's very likely to be convicted.
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- That's not the point.
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- The point is that when we do something like this, we
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- The people, we have nothing to hide.
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- We have nothing, that
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- We don't want everyone to see.
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- So why not have cameras in the courtroom?
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- I think it'd be. it's an important lesson.
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- And it's important to tell the american people why this,
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- This, this person allegedly did what he allegedly did.
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- We want to see it.
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- We want to know this.
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- This is going to change.
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- This has changed the course of america's history.
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- All right.
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- This is this is a crime.
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- And all crimes are devastating to their families.
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- But this this also hurt us as a country, as a, in a way,
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- Only a political assassination can hurt us.
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- So we have a right
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- To know exactly what's going on, to know
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- That our, prosecutors are doing their job, to know
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- That this person's given the right
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- To a complete and full defense,
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- To get all the facts out that he thinks are important,
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- While we get all the facts out that we think are vital.
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- So there is no good reason
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- In my mind for a judge in this case,
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- Not to allow cameras in the courtroom again,
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- If he's afraid that, people are going to grandstand
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- On, you know, there's not a good trial lawyer
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- Out there who hasn't had a judge say, simmer down, mr.
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- Schlichter, you're getting over your skis.
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- This is a trial, not
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- Not a performance art, not an interpretive dance.
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- Present your case.
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- You've got a new piece out in town hall
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- That is it it's in perfect curt schlichter fashion.
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- It says tuesday night sucked.
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- Now get over it.
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- Tell us what the takeaway should be from the debacle
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- That was tuesday night.
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- Well, the
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- The takeaway is don't go jump off a bridge, okay?
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- You have bad nights in elections.
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- All right?
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- I, i am old,
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- I remember the 1972 presidential election,
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- Which worked out pretty well for us.
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- Mcgovern was totally humiliated and i was in second grade.
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- And believe me, i lorded it over all the other kids
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- In my class because i was in california,
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- A liberal area, and they were commies.
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- But the
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- There have been a lot of great nights.
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- 1980 when reagan won 94, when we took back
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- The house for the first time in, what, 40 years?
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- 2016, 20, 24 great nights and there are bad nights.
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- 2012 was a bad night.
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- Okay, 2006 bad night.
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- Yesterday or two days ago.
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- Bad night.
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- Okay, we got we got creamed and there's no
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- Other way to put it.
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- But if i have to get creamed in a election, i'd rather
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- It be the off year election in a couple of blue states
- 00:12:05.550 --> 00:12:08.886
- Rather than a midterm or guy heaven forbid a presidential,
- 00:12:08.886 --> 00:12:15.860
- Who was going to win?
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- Well. oh, i predicted it.
- 00:12:17.461 --> 00:12:19.463
- The democrat states are likely to elect democrat governors.
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- Wow. i got it right now.
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- I don't want to minimize what happened because we did
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- Learn some stuff.
- 00:12:29.941 --> 00:12:30.942
- We learned that we're having trouble
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- Turning out
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- Some of the new members of the america first coalition.
- 00:12:33.444 --> 00:12:36.480
- Hispanic numbers went down, young people went down,
- 00:12:36.480 --> 00:12:40.718
- And young women have just gone completely crazy.
- 00:12:40.718 --> 00:12:43.788
- They're all over all these communists.
- 00:12:43.788 --> 00:12:46.190
- But it doesn't mean just because you can get
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- Information out of a bad night.
- 00:12:52.096 --> 00:12:55.299
- You know that that's.
- 00:12:55.299 --> 00:12:58.402
- That's the silver lining on the cloud.
- 00:12:58.402 --> 00:13:00.238
- Look, don't be happy about it.
- 00:13:00.238 --> 00:13:02.440
- We could have done a lot better.
- 00:13:02.440 --> 00:13:04.775
- And there are mistakes that we made.
- 00:13:04.775 --> 00:13:07.678
- Right. and it's important
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- We need to take the lessons that we've learned.
- 00:13:10.848 --> 00:13:13.084
- We have 363 days until the midterms.
- 00:13:13.084 --> 00:13:16.220
- Midterms are very important.
- 00:13:16.220 --> 00:13:18.389
- These, democrats are have gone completely insane.
- 00:13:18.389 --> 00:13:22.526
- Well, actually, i don't think there
- 00:13:22.526 --> 00:13:23.628
- And say anything, just flat out evil.
- 00:13:23.628 --> 00:13:26.430
- And who knows what they'll do to our country
- 00:13:27.331 --> 00:13:29.667
- If they get any power, they'll certainly stop donald trump
- 00:13:29.667 --> 00:13:32.570
- From fixing the problems they created.
- 00:13:32.570 --> 00:13:35.873
- So we've got to get serious and we've got to go,
- 00:13:35.873 --> 00:13:39.043
- And we've got to fight and play to win next time.
- 00:13:39.043 --> 00:13:43.614
- I don't think we did that this time.
- 00:13:43.614 --> 00:13:49.086
- Where are the tears
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- Or from the pain of the life that she lived?
- 00:13:51.656 --> 00:13:54.759
- She's a survivor of auschwitz.
- 00:13:55.359 --> 00:13:58.763
- The years that they would just beat her
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- Ears, that she didn't have food and felt hungry.
- 00:14:01.132 --> 00:14:04.802
- And our answer is love.
- 00:14:05.303 --> 00:14:08.973
- With a gift of only $25.
- 00:14:09.507 --> 00:14:11.776
- You'll deliver a life
- 00:14:11.776 --> 00:14:12.944
- Saving food box into the hands of an elderly jew in need
- 00:14:12.944 --> 00:14:17.448
- Of a in you saying people have a heart.
- 00:14:17.448 --> 00:14:20.685
- There are good people today.
- 00:14:20.685 --> 00:14:22.520
- Call, scan or go online now.
- 00:14:22.520 --> 00:14:25.256
- And the international
- 00:14:25.256 --> 00:14:26.390
- Fellowship of christians
- 00:14:26.390 --> 00:14:27.658
- And jews will rush your food box today.
- 00:14:27.658 --> 00:14:30.428
- Love you. this is a holy moment.
- 00:14:30.428 --> 00:14:33.297
- What you're doing is not simply being kind.
- 00:14:33.297 --> 00:14:36.701
- You are prophetically stepping into the scriptures
- 00:14:36.701 --> 00:14:40.538
- And being part of their redemption and our own.
- 00:14:40.538 --> 00:14:44.008
- Please call, scan or go online now.
- 00:14:44.008 --> 00:14:48.003
- Please call, scan or go online now.
- 00:14:48.003 --> 00:14:52.920
- I am so excited about this next guest.
- 00:14:53.754 --> 00:14:56.390
- Somebody that,
- 00:14:56.390 --> 00:14:57.491
- Not too long ago, we spent some a really amazing time,
- 00:14:57.491 --> 00:15:01.595
- Right here in, conference room.
- 00:15:01.595 --> 00:15:04.264
- I could walk to it in about three seconds.
- 00:15:04.264 --> 00:15:06.400
- And that is, of course,
- 00:15:06.400 --> 00:15:07.368
- Gil eckstein, ifc global president and ceo.
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- That's international fellowship of christians and jews.
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- Yeah, yeah.
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- Welcome to the charlie kirk show.
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- Thank you so much, andrew.
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- What a blessing to be here with you.
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- Yeah.
- 00:15:20.547 --> 00:15:21.615
- And it's the first time you've been on obviously,
- 00:15:21.615 --> 00:15:23.817
- Since the tragic news that we got that we,
- 00:15:23.817 --> 00:15:27.054
- That charlie had been taken
- 00:15:27.054 --> 00:15:28.389
- From us and taken from this world.
- 00:15:28.389 --> 00:15:30.324
- And when it happened, yeah.
- 00:15:30.324 --> 00:15:32.860
- Well, i couldn't help but recall,
- 00:15:32.860 --> 00:15:36.130
- As i just said, that time we spent in june.
- 00:15:36.130 --> 00:15:39.633
- So just a couple months ago
- 00:15:39.633 --> 00:15:41.335
- Together in the conference room here in phoenix.
- 00:15:41.335 --> 00:15:45.039
- And it was one of the most memorable,
- 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:48.275
- Meetings that i had ever had
- 00:15:48.275 --> 00:15:49.610
- With charlie, as a matter of fact.
- 00:15:49.610 --> 00:15:50.844
- And you're you were so sweet.
- 00:15:50.844 --> 00:15:52.780
- And you, you wanted to just engage in this ideas.
- 00:15:52.780 --> 00:15:55.949
- And charlie was was, riffing,
- 00:15:55.949 --> 00:15:58.652
- And he had all these, like, thoughts,
- 00:15:58.652 --> 00:16:00.020
- And you were just like, i want it like,
- 00:16:00.020 --> 00:16:01.622
- Let me get my note back, and i'd take this.
- 00:16:01.622 --> 00:16:03.123
- And i was like, absolutely.
- 00:16:03.123 --> 00:16:04.892
- So the floor is yours.
- 00:16:04.892 --> 00:16:06.260
- I'll maybe just, you know, start there and reflect on
- 00:16:06.260 --> 00:16:09.930
- Your personal friendship with charlie
- 00:16:09.930 --> 00:16:11.832
- And kind of what that meant and what you learned
- 00:16:11.832 --> 00:16:14.802
- And how you're thinking
- 00:16:14.802 --> 00:16:15.836
- About these weeks since, he was taken from us.
- 00:16:15.836 --> 00:16:19.139
- Wow. well, to
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- See you there, andrew, in the studio
- 00:16:20.507 --> 00:16:23.644
- Doing this podcast gives me so much hope for the future.
- 00:16:23.644 --> 00:16:26.447
- And to see charlie's empty chair is
- 00:16:26.447 --> 00:16:29.316
- Something that i think we'll all feel in our hearts forever.
- 00:16:29.316 --> 00:16:33.087
- I'll never forget that day that we sat together
- 00:16:33.087 --> 00:16:37.357
- With charlie.
- 00:16:37.357 --> 00:16:38.358
- We had around a ten minute meeting scheduled,
- 00:16:38.358 --> 00:16:40.727
- And charlie came in.
- 00:16:40.727 --> 00:16:41.728
- He was so busy, and i know that look,
- 00:16:41.728 --> 00:16:43.430
- And i know that feeling.
- 00:16:43.430 --> 00:16:44.565
- And i was like, okay, i'm here for as long as you have.
- 00:16:44.565 --> 00:16:47.034
- Don't worry about anything, he said.
- 00:16:47.034 --> 00:16:48.802
- What do you want to talk about?
- 00:16:48.802 --> 00:16:49.837
- Yeah. i said, share your heart with me, charlie.
- 00:16:49.837 --> 00:16:51.705
- You could tell me anything.
- 00:16:51.705 --> 00:16:53.307
- Tell me the hard things.
- 00:16:53.307 --> 00:16:54.374
- Tell me the hard things about israel.
- 00:16:54.374 --> 00:16:56.076
- Tell me the hard things or tell me anything that you want.
- 00:16:56.076 --> 00:16:58.745
- You could just share with me.
- 00:16:58.745 --> 00:17:00.180
- And it was incredible how suddenly he transformed
- 00:17:00.180 --> 00:17:03.317
- Into the most loving, passionate,
- 00:17:03.317 --> 00:17:06.954
- Wise kind of leader i've ever seen in my life.
- 00:17:06.954 --> 00:17:10.624
- And i've sat with a lot of world leaders,
- 00:17:10.624 --> 00:17:13.460
- And what i saw in him was both
- 00:17:13.460 --> 00:17:15.996
- This humble servant heart.
- 00:17:15.996 --> 00:17:19.066
- Of course, being that i live in israel,
- 00:17:19.066 --> 00:17:21.034
- I represent israel and jewish christian relations,
- 00:17:21.034 --> 00:17:23.704
- And where jews and christians
- 00:17:23.704 --> 00:17:25.806
- Find that common bond spiritually.
- 00:17:25.806 --> 00:17:27.674
- I saw a spirit that was alive, live and in love with israel.
- 00:17:27.674 --> 00:17:32.112
- And he was someone who i think
- 00:17:32.112 --> 00:17:33.514
- Held such truth in the sense of
- 00:17:33.514 --> 00:17:36.550
- He was able to be critical of policies
- 00:17:36.550 --> 00:17:39.853
- Of the israeli government without at all
- 00:17:39.853 --> 00:17:44.024
- Being critical of israel as the spiritual homeland.
- 00:17:44.024 --> 00:17:48.262
- He was able to both say, this is a just war.
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- We have to get these hostages back.
- 00:17:51.565 --> 00:17:53.600
- And when the
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- Hostages came back, just a day before charlie's birthday,
- 00:17:54.768 --> 00:17:58.071
- I know you and me both, andrew were like, thank you, charlie.
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- We know you were praying for this.
- 00:18:02.075 --> 00:18:03.710
- We know you had a part in this.
- 00:18:03.710 --> 00:18:05.012
- But what i saw was he was able to recognize
- 00:18:05.012 --> 00:18:08.348
- What israel's going through and the complexity within it.
- 00:18:08.348 --> 00:18:11.518
- Recognizing good as good, bad as bad, and also recognizing
- 00:18:11.518 --> 00:18:15.923
- You can have concerns and be critical of israel
- 00:18:15.923 --> 00:18:19.593
- Without completely saying israel doesn't
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- Have a right to exist, or that the jewish people
- 00:18:21.461 --> 00:18:24.198
- Shouldn't have a homeland or any of the other things
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- That so many people are saying today. man. yael.
- 00:18:26.333 --> 00:18:28.735
- This is a remarkable stat that i was just shared with me
- 00:18:28.735 --> 00:18:32.406
- That since october 7th, the fellowship
- 00:18:32.406 --> 00:18:35.175
- Provided over $300 million in direct aid,
- 00:18:35.175 --> 00:18:39.813
- As did i get a
- 00:18:40.147 --> 00:18:41.381
- Did i accidentally add an extra zero on there or is that it?
- 00:18:41.381 --> 00:18:44.685
- God is so much bigger than anything we imagine.
- 00:18:44.685 --> 00:18:48.422
- Yes, we've distributed over $300 million of lifesaving
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- Aid in israel
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- To all communities in israel, to the jewish community,
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- To the christian community, to the druze, to the bedouin,
- 00:18:55.762 --> 00:18:58.065
- Even to the muslim community in israel,
- 00:18:58.065 --> 00:18:59.766
- Of course, some 20% of israel's population are non-jews.
- 00:18:59.766 --> 00:19:03.103
- And so we distribute aid according to need,
- 00:19:03.103 --> 00:19:05.939
- Not according to religion or anything else.
- 00:19:05.939 --> 00:19:08.375
- So so i mean, that's a huge accomplishment.
- 00:19:08.375 --> 00:19:11.778
- And so congratulations to that.
- 00:19:11.778 --> 00:19:13.847
- And what a blessing.
- 00:19:13.847 --> 00:19:15.282
- But but i have a question because
- 00:19:15.282 --> 00:19:18.018
- So now that we're in peace,
- 00:19:18.018 --> 00:19:20.654
- Obviously you guys were so focused on the war effort
- 00:19:20.654 --> 00:19:23.857
- And helping all the need
- 00:19:23.857 --> 00:19:25.392
- That was arising out of this tumultuous situation.
- 00:19:25.392 --> 00:19:28.161
- So now where is the focus of icj
- 00:19:28.161 --> 00:19:32.266
- Going to be place, or is it still kind of
- 00:19:32.266 --> 00:19:33.967
- Is there still more that we don't know
- 00:19:33.967 --> 00:19:35.235
- About kind of going on with the
- 00:19:35.235 --> 00:19:37.237
- In and around gaza or with
- 00:19:37.804 --> 00:19:39.106
- The idf, like what's what's happening now?
- 00:19:39.106 --> 00:19:42.175
- Well, we look at the scriptures and we're told to feed
- 00:19:42.175 --> 00:19:44.511
- The hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the poor.
- 00:19:44.511 --> 00:19:46.580
- That's what the fellowship has been doing for over 40 years.
- 00:19:46.580 --> 00:19:49.783
- So we're going to continue to do that right now.
- 00:19:49.783 --> 00:19:52.219
- In a way, during these times of quiet,
- 00:19:52.219 --> 00:19:54.121
- Is our opportunity to be able to seed into the peace
- 00:19:54.121 --> 00:19:58.458
- Of jerusalem,
- 00:19:58.458 --> 00:19:59.426
- See it into bringing food
- 00:19:59.426 --> 00:20:01.328
- And hope to the holocaust survivors, going to the orphans
- 00:20:01.328 --> 00:20:04.965
- And the children who have been affected,
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- And bringing them food and clothing and telling them
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- Christians and jews around the world stand with you,
- 00:20:09.303 --> 00:20:12.506
- That in so many ways, andrew, now that war ends is
- 00:20:12.506 --> 00:20:15.342
- When the real work begins to rebuild these communities.
- 00:20:15.342 --> 00:20:18.945
- The fellowship just, built kindergartens on the border
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- With gaza
- 00:20:22.616 --> 00:20:23.450
- That were destroyed on october 7th,
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- So the kids couldn't go back to school.
- 00:20:25.152 --> 00:20:27.554
- And so we're here in israel planting those seeds.
- 00:20:27.554 --> 00:20:31.024
- We built a hospital in nazareth.
- 00:20:31.024 --> 00:20:33.193
- And we'll continue to do everything to help the people.
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- Yeah, sorry, i didn't mean to interrupt,
- 00:20:36.029 --> 00:20:37.331
- Because i know you've probably got,
- 00:20:37.331 --> 00:20:38.932
- Like, a bunch of projects you could rattle off, so.
- 00:20:38.932 --> 00:20:41.702
- But with the kibbutz is. so there was a little.
- 00:20:41.702 --> 00:20:44.271
- I mean, these things
- 00:20:44.271 --> 00:20:45.238
- These kibbutz has got totally devastated.
- 00:20:45.238 --> 00:20:48.208
- All right.
- 00:20:48.508 --> 00:20:49.476
- Where are they at in rebuilding, or have they,
- 00:20:49.476 --> 00:20:51.812
- If they've been abandoned, are they getting rebuilt?
- 00:20:51.812 --> 00:20:53.413
- Like what's what's the status with some of those communities?
- 00:20:53.413 --> 00:20:56.583
- It's a great question.
- 00:20:57.050 --> 00:20:58.118
- I was just recently in near oz, which is on the border
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- With the gaza strip, and 1 in 4 people from that jewish
- 00:21:01.054 --> 00:21:04.925
- Kibbutz were either kidnaped or killed.
- 00:21:04.925 --> 00:21:08.762
- Every single house was burned down,
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- And it still hasn't been rebuilt.
- 00:21:11.565 --> 00:21:13.400
- But the people want to come back.
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- And so they're putting caravans next to the kibbutz.
- 00:21:14.835 --> 00:21:18.271
- They're putting anything that they could in order
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- To go and move back and show this resilience,
- 00:21:20.240 --> 00:21:23.377
- This hope, this their seeds that are blooming with hope for
- 00:21:23.377 --> 00:21:27.013
- The future.
- 00:21:27.013 --> 00:21:27.981
- And now that the war is over, we'll start
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- To rebuild those kibbutzim.
- 00:21:30.384 --> 00:21:31.752
- But there is so many, needs.
- 00:21:31.752 --> 00:21:34.755
- There are trauma centers that there are wounded soldiers
- 00:21:34.755 --> 00:21:38.658
- Who have generation of 18 year olds are missing limbs and
- 00:21:38.658 --> 00:21:41.962
- But they're determined to go out and work.
- 00:21:41.962 --> 00:21:44.498
- We actually we had one man, who we brought from the former
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- Soviet union
- 00:21:48.402 --> 00:21:49.202
- And aliya, the biblical prophecy
- 00:21:49.202 --> 00:21:51.104
- Coming to fruition of the ingathering of the people.
- 00:21:51.104 --> 00:21:53.006
- And he came from this biblical
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- Land of the north with the fellowship to israel.
- 00:21:54.174 --> 00:21:56.743
- And he ended up joining the idf as a lone soldier.
- 00:21:56.743 --> 00:21:59.679
- He was injured by, terrorists that they threw,
- 00:21:59.679 --> 00:22:03.183
- Anti-tank missile
- 00:22:03.183 --> 00:22:04.284
- At his missile, at his, tank, and he lost his leg.
- 00:22:04.284 --> 00:22:08.054
- But he's now volunteering with the fellowship,
- 00:22:08.054 --> 00:22:10.424
- Distributing food boxes to elderly.
- 00:22:10.424 --> 00:22:12.626
- And he even learned how to ride a handicapped bike
- 00:22:12.626 --> 00:22:15.495
- And is competing, on behalf of the state of israel
- 00:22:15.495 --> 00:22:19.232
- In, in the competitions for handicapped.
- 00:22:19.232 --> 00:22:22.836
- So we are seeing a resilience that we
- 00:22:22.836 --> 00:22:26.473
- I couldn't even imagine for october 7th.
- 00:22:26.473 --> 00:22:28.942
- And the fellowship
- 00:22:28.942 --> 00:22:29.843
- Is there both to give hope and strengthen.
- 00:22:29.843 --> 00:22:31.978
- That's awesome.
- 00:22:31.978 --> 00:22:32.712
- That's
- 00:22:32.712 --> 00:22:33.914
- I love those kinds of stories and the resilience of the
- 00:22:33.914 --> 00:22:35.916
- Of the people of israel has been truly amazing.
- 00:22:35.916 --> 00:22:39.686
- But so we prayed last time
- 00:22:39.686 --> 00:22:41.455
- And i got one minute left, yael,
- 00:22:41.455 --> 00:22:43.290
- For we have to say goodbye to our show today.
- 00:22:43.290 --> 00:22:45.025
- But we prayed for the hostages to get released.
- 00:22:45.025 --> 00:22:48.929
- So what is what?
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- What should we be thinking about and praying about now?
- 00:22:50.096 --> 00:22:52.299
- What is the next call that?
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- Well, i pray for america every single day.
- 00:22:54.434 --> 00:22:56.937
- I believe a strong america is a strong world and i pray
- 00:22:56.937 --> 00:22:59.940
- For the peace of jerusalem, just as the scriptures tell us.
- 00:22:59.940 --> 00:23:02.943
- And i believe that with a strong america
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- And a strong and unified israel will be able to see
- 00:23:05.078 --> 00:23:07.881
- More countries join the historic abraham accords.
- 00:23:07.881 --> 00:23:11.084
- This is something that i believe
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- It's blessed in the eyes of god.
- 00:23:12.953 --> 00:23:14.554
- That's possible.
- 00:23:14.554 --> 00:23:15.622
- And we have to believe that light always overcomes
- 00:23:15.622 --> 00:23:19.192
- The darkness.
- 00:23:19.192 --> 00:23:20.260
- We've seen darkness, and now it's time for light.
- 00:23:20.260 --> 00:23:24.264
- We truly are living in a historic time.
- 00:23:25.065 --> 00:23:27.901
- After 738 days, the 20 living israeli hostages
- 00:23:27.901 --> 00:23:32.072
- Have been released from captivity
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- And those who were killed will finally rest in peace near
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- Their loved ones. praise god!
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- In this time of celebration, our good friends
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- At the international fellowship of christians and jews
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- Send their deepest gratitude for your prayers
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- And unwavering support.
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- Thanks to you, the fellowship has provided
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- $300 million in emergency aid since october 7th,
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- Including millions in direct support for the hostages
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- And their families.
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- Of course, the road ahead is still a long one.
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- Much needs to be done to restore
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- And revive these victims of terrorism.
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- But that's exactly what the fellowship does.
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- For example,
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- They're assisting returned hostages,
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- Along with their families and friends, with immediate
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- Medical, psychological and financial support.
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- They're also providing
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- Mental health care for israelis of all ages.
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- To find out how you can help, visit ifc.org.
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- That's ifc.org.
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