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International fellowship of christians and jews.
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There is news
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That there is a well, it's about ten days old.
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Uss ford has been in the waters
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In the caribbean, outside of venezuela.
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There is concern, i think, in maduro's
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Inner circle that the us is about
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To potentially oust him from power within venezuela.
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Meanwhile, you have the venezuelan
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Cartel, narco trafficking boats that have caused
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A huge controversy, namely with pete hegseth.
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It seems as if, blake, that there is a growing,
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I would say op, but they are coordinating their efforts.
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Democrats are to, hopefully get rid of pete hegseth
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And their hope, not my hope, to get rid of pete hegseth.
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I think that effort will fail.
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But describe this dynamic of what's going on right now
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With pete hegseth.
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Well,
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What's interesting is
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In september
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They you know, they've been
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Doing these strikes on drug boats coming from latin
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America towards the united states,
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I should say alleged gunboats or drug boats,
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And that in september, they identified one of these.
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They told hegseth about it because he's the one who has
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To approve strikes,
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And that,
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According to the washington post,
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He not merely approved a strike,
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But said, basically kill them all in some way.
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And so they struck the boat.
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It sinks and breaks apart.
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But when they're observing it afterwards,
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They see that some people on the boat
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Are alive and clinging to wreckage.
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And rather than leave them there or rescue them
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And arrest them or whatever you would do,
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They drop another strike on them. yeah.
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And we have image 208 here.
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This is from the new york times.
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So that original story, the double tap story
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That they're alleging is a war crime.
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It was reported by the washington post.
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Now, the new york times
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Has issued a follow up reporting that reads
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That basically is a giant rebuttal to it.
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And the new york times says, according to five u.s.
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Officials who spoke separately and on the condition of
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Anonymity to discuss sensitive matters
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That are under investigation, mr.
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Headset, ahead of the september 2nd attack, ordered a strike
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That would kill the people on the boat
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And destroy the vessel and its purported cargo of drugs.
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But each official said mr.
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Headset's directive
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Did not specifically address what should happen
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If a first missile turned out
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Not to fully accomplish all of those things,
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And the officials said his order was not a response
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To surveillance footage showing that
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At least two people on the boat survived the first blast.
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Admiral bradley, the other character
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In this saga, ordered the initial missile strike
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And then several
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Follow up strikes that killed
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The initial survivors and sank the disabled boat.
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As that operation unfolded, they said mr.
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Headset did not give any further orders to him.
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So this is a direct rebuttal that, to the original story,
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Which suggested that pete headset was sort of in the room
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Pulling the levers, ordering the strikes.
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A follow up double tap, as you call it, to kill survivors.
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Now, the new york times is saying
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There was an initial directive
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That it should be a lethal strike.
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And then admiral bradley was the one who was actually
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Directing those now.
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Pete, headset has come out and said
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Admiral bradley has 100% of his support,
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That he stands by him, that america is lucky
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To have somebody of his stature and ability in the position
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That he's in. but
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Is this all part of a
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Broader effort by democrats to now go after peace?
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What's interesting here is what some have speculated on,
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And i don't know if we'll learn more about this,
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But what's really crazy is this all happened
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Just in the days after we had that very strange video
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They drop where they're
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Sort of implying you might get illegal orders,
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You know, not not saying anything in particular.
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And they're very evasive when they're confronted about it.
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They are going on tv and saying, you know, i don't
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I don't know of any specific illegal orders, but,
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You know, we're just, you know, hypothetically,
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If hypothetically, anything were to occur
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And they're taking that pose and suddenly this drops and
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These people in this case, u.s.
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Senators are not
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And lawmakers are not unaware of what is going on.
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They have contacts with reporters,
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Especially friendly reporters.
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And, one of them, slotkin, is like a cia veteran and such.
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And so they it seems very possible
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They may have known this story was coming
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And they were essentially it was all a process to
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Seed this story, to talk about, oh, illegal orders,
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You know, possibly coming out and then bam, here's
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Another story saying there is illegal orders.
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And now they've got their preferred framing and,
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You know,
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You could say this is an attempt to bring down hedges,
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But it's much more than that.
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It's an attempt
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To bring down
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The administration because they don't want
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Hegseth scalp here and just oh, you slot in a new guy
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What they want.
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They actually want that whole defy orders thing.
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They want to delegitimize and break down
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The apparatus of government for this administration.
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Because if they can't,
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You know,
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If the national guard just starts
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Defying the president, you're at a constitutional crisis
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Point where the administration can crumble.
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Well, and it's it's important to note,
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I first of all, i completely agree.
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I believe this was coordinated.
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This isn't orchestrated, op.
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And it's a pr op.
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It's also deadly serious because,
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We'll play this clip in just a bit.
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But, you know, senator eric schmitt
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Is basically saying that this has all the hallmark,
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Hallmarks of a color
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Revolution of ceding the ground for that.
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And then what was interesting is this story has played out
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Is i kept expecting
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Because they got caught with egg on their face.
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They've admitted that,
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That they're not alleging anything has been illegal
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Thus far necessarily.
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But then they will allude to these drug boat strikes.
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Right.
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So then i kept watching and expecting them
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To fall back and say, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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And mark kelly and slotkin and some of the others
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Have gone on a full tour of pr.
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I mean, they're hitting cnn,
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Msnbc, writing op eds, doing social media videos.
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And that was
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I think the tell is that they keep diving
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In, drilling the story deeper and deeper and deeper.
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And then you have mark kelly yesterday,
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Who gives a whole press conference,
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Which was just wild.
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He alleges that trump was trying
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His threatened to kill him.
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But then when pressed, was forced to admit that, you know,
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He wasn't actually speaking about any specific thing.
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192 on who this president is and who the secretary
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Of defense is, is, and specifically things
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That the president has said in the past and things he was
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Talking about doing in the future.
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So we were looking forward
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To try to head something off at the past
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That could have been really, really bad.
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So it wasn't about this specific thing.
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No one threatened to kill senator mark kelly
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Telling the military to refuse
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Orders is the controversy.
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They started it.
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Mark kelly and elissa slotkin and all these,
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They are the ones that started it
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With their insane video.
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What the president was doing was simply pointing out
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The seriousness of of seditious behavior.
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He was pointing to the fact that,
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Yeah, if you are guilty
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Of these things, one of the punishments
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Is the death penalty.
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That's just a fact.
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And the white house even later confirmed that
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President trump was not calling for him to be killed.
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He was pointing out that this was a serious offense.
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Mark kelly has spent years in uniform.
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He knows full well that calling it reminds me of military
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Orders is illegal.
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It reminds me of that,
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The start of the first trump administration,
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Where it would be something and they would just
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There was like, you know, the trump administration,
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Like when flynn was, you know, possibly,
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You know, talks to the russian ambassador
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And they're like,
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Oh, well, he he may be implied a diplomatic concession here.
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My gosh, the logan act, the logan logan act
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That carries infinity years in prison in the maximum penalty.
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No, exactly. we'll do this.
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The press does this all the time.
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Someone gets charged with something
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With a maximum of 800 years,
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And then they get like an administrative,
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You know, slap on the wrist or something.
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But this is what drives me nuts, is
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He is playing the victim.
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And why?
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Simply because the chain of command
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Is being reasserted by those who are actually in charge,
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Those who actually have power, namely
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Secretary of war pete hegseth
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And the president of the united states,
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The commander in chief.
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The wounds from
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October 7th didn't fade when the headlines did.
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Behind me rises
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A new rehabilitation home for israel's wounded soldiers.
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One of many urgent projects israel needs right now.
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Entire communities shattered.
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Families displaced.
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And each day,
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The impact of the need grows even more overwhelming.
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But the bible says it clearly.
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The righteous will live by faith and by faith.
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The fellowship is rolling up our sleeves
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And stepping into this immense challenge.
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Helping mothers who don't know where to begin again.
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Standing with paralyzed heroes.
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Fighting to take their first steps.
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Building centers of healing for the wounded
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And the traumatized.
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Bringing food and comfort to elderly israelis
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Who have no one else to care for them.
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To see the life saving work of the fellowship.
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Unfolding across israel right now.
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Visit ifc's dawg.
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Visit ifc's dawg.
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I know i already brought up the new york times
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Once today, and i'm loath to do it a second time.
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But they do have a new article out, saying and it's titled
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Rotating beds and cell phones maduro's plan to outlast trump.
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President trump's threat of military action
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Has, confronted president nicolas
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Maduro of venezuela with the gravest challenge
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Of his crisis ridden, ridden reign yet.
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And so basically, the story goes on to report that he's
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Upped his personal security with a bunch of cuban,
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Guns for hire that his personal security
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Is has been ramped up.
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But he's trying to save face in public
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By acting like everything's fine.
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He's doing tiktok videos of him crashing a wedding
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And dancing with people and all kinds of stuff.
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So he's trying to put on a strong and a brave face.
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However, behind the scenes, he's
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Terrified that president trump is about
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To oust him from power,
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Which brings up a whole larger conversation.
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Geopolitical in nature, about
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Should we be meddling in venezuela at all?
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I, i certainly don't think charlie would be enthusiastic
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About that.
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I think we've had we've been through this pattern.
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I do i will admit, i suspect
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Toppling venezuela would be not as bad
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As toppling libya or afghanistan.
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Latin americans don't have quite the same history
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As middle easterners of going, doing insane terrorism,
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Suicide, terrorism, you know, for the nihilistic love of it.
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They don't have radical islam.
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All of those are in play.
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There's more of a legit
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Opposition movement in venezuela.
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All of those things, i think would make it easier
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And less damaging.
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But i think at the same time,
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We've just seen this
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Bill of goods before of, it'll be really easy
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In and out, in and out. in five minutes.
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It'll be really cheap, really easy.
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And how often has that really played out?
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Even in wars we've won, it hasn't necessarily
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Played out the way we expected.
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Yeah.
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Well and you've got to imagine that they have
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There has been behind the scenes discussions.
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We've we know for a fact that president
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Trump and nicolas maduro have spoken.
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Maduro being the, the, dictator of venezuela.
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And the the interesting part here is you got maria corina
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Machado, who's the opposition leader.
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Now, remember when she was awarded the nobel peace prize?
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She dedicated it to president trump.
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She certainly knows.
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She certainly knows how to make a sell. yeah.
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So you you have to imagine that there was
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There was optics involved there.
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There was a strategy involved from her perspective.
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Now, a lot of international watchdogs suggest that she
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Actually won the election and that nicolas
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Maduro stole it, which does seem to be true.
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And so you do kind of wonder, are there underlying realities
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On the ground in venezuela that would
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Sort of seem to your point, that
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That would seem to suggest that
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If maduro was taken out of power, that there would be a,
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A, a nucleus of power and influence within that
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Country that could assume power in a more constructive way.
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Now, here's the thing. i mean, i totally agree with you.
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I think charlie would be against this
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Because, listen, we have domestic issues
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That we need to, need to address head on.
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Now, here's the argument for this.
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Now, i think that the admin
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Is playing a little bit of 3d chess.
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I do, and i don't mean to
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I know that we use that expression in it's cliche,
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But i do think that under the president,
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President trump's administration,
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We have seen a reassertion of the monroe doctrine, right?
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This this western hemisphere centric, foreign policy
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Where, hey, we're going to we're going to take back
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Control of the panama canal.
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We're going to strike key alliances
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With people like, bukele in el salvador.
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We're going to reassert,
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Dominance within south america.
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Right.
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And our our malay, a friendship
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That we've struck up, the leader of argentina.
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So you do sort of see the makings of this.
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Now, the other piece i will say is that venezuela and cuba
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Work hand in hand.
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You see this
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The fact that
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Cuban guards are now, part of the private
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Security detail for nicolas maduro.
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You see it with the sharing of intelligence.
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Now, people don't know this, but the cuban intelligence
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Is one of the most formidable in the world.
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Basically, they have no exports.
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They have no goods. besides, you know, cigars.
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They used to have sugar, a crazy thing.
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Something like 20% of cuba's population has apparently left
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Since about 2019. really?
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It's a it's a really messed up country.
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More so than people realize. i think you're right.
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And and but one of their exports
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That they sell to places like venezuela is intelligence.
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So they've, they've infiltrated
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In a lot of places within the, lower 48.
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They know stuff that venezuela wants to pay for, right,
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In other places. so that's another piece.
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A dynamic here is that if you if you do topple venezuela,
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If you do if you maduro and you put in this maria
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Karina machado, you get two regimes,
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Two regime changes,
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Which probably will not blow up in our faces at all
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Because we've learned our lesson.
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I just i actually kind of don't think that that's
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What they're going for. i think president trump
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Is trying to do the carrot and stick.
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He's he's saber rattling to get nicolas
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Maduro to leave on his own.
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I liked the idea of
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Just give him $500 million and he can go live wherever.
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And what stinks is we'd have more credibility on that
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If we'd stuck to our guns with, gadhafi instead.
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Yeah, yeah, there is a
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We're not a trustworthy actor in the palace.
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There's a reason
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Not to trust our our, our foreign policy promises.
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We're going to have michael knowles
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Join us next to help make sense of all of this and more.
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Don't go anywhere.
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That christmas morning.
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Wise men brought gifts from outside the holy land.
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But now that the war is over,
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This holy land and her people
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Are still carrying deep wounded.
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Many of the elderly are alone and suffering
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Like the wise men or wise women.
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When you open your heart and give a special holiday food
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Box to someone here in israel
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This christmas chronicles season.
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People like hannah who can't buy food.
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That's where the fellowship is called to feed the hungry.
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Please call, scan or go online now to help rush emergency
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Food and healing to elderly jews
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And their christian neighbors struggling
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To rebuild their lives from the war.
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What will happen when we make this holy day season?
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Holy indeed.
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Holy indeed.
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Michael knowles welcome
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Back to the charlie kirk show, my friend. good to see you.
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What's going on, man? good to be here.
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I'm not going to ask you about catholicism.
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I think we should. we should have a reason.
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We should never meet the pope after six months.
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Oh, you get that.
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Ask me about on text
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If you ever want to talk about all.
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I want to talk about the weekend.
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Well, okay.
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Blake's going to ask you to grade the pope in,
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In just a few minutes here, after the person carrying
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Baseball bats on planes, there was an ice dance party.
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There was a nice ball. yeah, yeah. yes.
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But not with the first question.
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Okay, so this is actually where we're going to start it.
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I want you to sort of make sense
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Of our political moment that we find ourselves in.
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There is all this consternation about venezuela, about pete
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Hegseth, and, you know, were these war crimes was there
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Double tap? the new york times seems to suggest it's not.
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It does
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Have this feeling of a, of a messaging op, sort of.
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They roll out this this suspicious video,
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The seditious six is as there is there being labeled.
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And then all of a sudden
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We get this whole inquiry into the venezuelan cartel,
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Narco trafficking, you know, strikes.
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What do you make of this moment?
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Why are they so fixated on pete?
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Headset.
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They've been going after pete hegseth since before the guy
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Was confirmed. i mean, let's not forget this.
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You know, a lot of us know pete.
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Not just people who were friends with pete,
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But who have watched pete every morning on fox news.
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And, you know, he's been a public figure for a long time.
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And more than any other member of this cabinet,
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The democrats seemed absolutely devoted
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To torpedoing him before he he came in as secretary of war.
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And so, to me, if i didn't know anything else
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About venezuela, i ran anything about the military.
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If all i knew is that this guy was the chief target
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In the cabinet for the democrats,
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I would be defending him wholeheartedly.
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Now, on top of that,
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You've had a very, very effective
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Military strategy under trump
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Recruitment way up, getting a lot of the woke out
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In terms of the policy, the military itself,
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Then obviously very, very successful
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Military operations in the middle east.
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Now we're looking at operations in latin america.
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So i think he's doing a very good job generally.
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But i just take it simply on a rule of thumb,
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If he's the guy they want to take out,
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He's probably the guy i'm going to be defending.
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Yeah, that's exactly been my posture as well.
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It's like,
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We must be over,
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Over the mark here
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With with secretary hegg seth, because they want
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To get him out so badly.
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But this is part of this larger.
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There's two basically at this point we diverge in a word.
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Right.
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There's two main through lines
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Narratives that are going on right now.
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There is this.
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We had the national guard
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Attack the ambush by an afghan refugee.
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And that brings up this whole foreign policy conversation
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In and of itself.
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But then meanwhile,
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There's all this intrigue around venezuela.
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Are we going to strike?
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Are we going to, you know, we're moving
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Carriers into the region and maga in the base
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Typically has been postured in a way that says, we
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Don't want to get involved in any more foreign entanglements.
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We don't want blood and death overseas.
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We want to focus domestically.
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What would you like to see play out in the next days
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And weeks ahead
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When it comes
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To venezuela specifically, and then we'll get into
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Our own immigration debate that we're also having?
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Yeah,
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I love the way you put it, andrew,
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Because it's kind of a confounding issue for maga.
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If the question were about some never ending regime change
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War in the middle east or africa or something,
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I think maga would be unified.
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Say, we don't want that at all.
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However, this is a little different
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Because this is much closer to home.
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The monroe doctrine, which says america runs
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The western hemisphere,
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Has been our official policy since 1823.
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This involves a direct threat to americans,
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Which is all the drugs that are coming largely
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From venezuela and specifically to foreign terrorist
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Organizations that are associated with
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The regime, kills over 75,000 americans a year.
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It also involves hard resources.
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One of the funniest things
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About president trump's foreign policy is how open he is.
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He says, you know, we didn't go to war for oil in iraq,
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But we at least should have gotten the oil.
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You know, natural resources really do matter.
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And, you know, this is our hemisphere.
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So i think it's a little dicier on what what americans are
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Thinking about it.
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Look, the ideal scenario is you completely destroy
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The narco terrorists.
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You wage a real war on drugs,
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Meaning you blow up all the guys who were
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Smuggling the drugs and and killing american kids.
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You take, a hostile dictator who is partnering up
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With a lot of our enemies,
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And you replace him with
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Someone who's maybe a little friendlier to us.
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And maybe that also helps the energy market, too.
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That's what everyone wants in the ideal.
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The question is, can can they pull this kind of thing off?
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I think they're going to get a lot more, grace from the base
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In terms of actions in latin america.
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The only question is, does the military, the cia, whatever
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The us government
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Do, we have a serious plan in place to to replace maduro
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If they actually want regime change?
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Because there's two views of the cia.
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One is james bond, jason bourne.
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You know, they control everything, the supervision.
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The other one is burn after reading.
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Like everything the cia tries to do
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Turns to ash and gets worse.
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And those are the that's the debate right now.
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What is really, going on here?
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All i will say on this, i favor a much more restrained
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Foreign policy that is much closer to home,
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That involves much more direct american interests.
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While i will say with trump is he has the most effective
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Foreign policy of my lifetime, probably including george h.w.
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Bush.
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And so
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I'm willing to give the guy
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A little bit more grace here,
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Because he just hasn't bungled it all up
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Like clinton did, like george w bush did,
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And certainly like obama and biden.
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The monroe doctrine was not just
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We dominate every country in western hemisphere.
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It was keeping foreign europeans at the time.
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And i imagine you could count
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Chinese today and russia, russia, of course.
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Out of the hemisphere, not influencing it.
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And yeah, well, you saw this in panama, right?
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The panama canal.
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President trump goes in and reasserts u.s.
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Dominance over the canal,
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Which was being taken over by china, actually,
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And so we were getting treated very poorly in the canal. so
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Let's switch our attention here, michael.
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We're kind of doing hopscotch here on topics, but the
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The other main story is the president.
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And now kristi noem, pam
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Bondi coming down hard on third world migration.
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Now i made a prediction that this was going to be
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President trump's most popular policy plank yet.
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And i mean, including the wall,
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Including the southern border.
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And we had rich barris on yesterday
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Who seems he's doing polling on this.
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And the initial results seem to indicate
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That this is, in fact, very, very appealing with the base.
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So you've got these.
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There's a confluence of two different stories,
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Foreign policy, which is always a snake pit
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Full of vipers, full of surprises, full of,
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Backlash for the president in the administration.
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And then you've got his hardline immigration stance.
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I received a message from our friends
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At international fellowship of christians and jews
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That i would like to share with you.
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It's a simple one. thank you.
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And one of the jewish communities
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Greatest times of need.
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Christians around the world have stepped up
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With generosity, standing in prayer
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And showing what it means to love their neighbors
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As themselves together with the fellowship.
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You're doing the holy work, providing food for the hungry.
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Care for the elderly and healing for the wounded.
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Your prayers and support are helping to restore hope
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And strength throughout israel and beyond.
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To learn more, visit ifc, ck dawg, that's ifc.org.
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Michael Knowles: December 3, 2025 | Charlie Kirk Today

December 3, 2025 | 25:2

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