Joel Rosenberg: Huckabee's Take on Israel's Future | The Rosenberg Report

May 7, 2025 | 26:42

Tonight on the Rosenberg Report, U.S. Ambassador to Isreal Mike Huckabee talks about the future of Israel, Iran, Gaza and evangelicals.

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  • Tonight on the rosenberg report.
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  • Just how worried should israelis, moderate arab leaders
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  • And evangelicals be over president trump's aggressive
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  • New push to negotiate a nuclear deal with the iranian regime?
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  • Is trump just laying the ground for a massive military attack,
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  • Or is there a risk trump could get played by tehran?
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  • Why is the president
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  • Coming to the middle east next week, but not to israel?
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  • And are there any signs that a us brokered deal
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  • To free the rest of the hostages is close at hand?
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  • An exclusive sit down interview with president trump's
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  • New pointman in israel, ambassador mike huckabee.
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  • His first since arriving at the american embassy in jerusalem
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  • Tonight on the rosenberg report.
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  • Mike huckabee, the new u.s.
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  • Ambassador to israel, is in the house.
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  • He is not only in the country, but he is here in the tbn
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  • Studios here in jerusalem.
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  • And i'm going to talk to him
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  • For our first exclusive interview since he arrived.
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  • And i'm really looking forward to that.
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  • We got a lot to cover.
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  • I want to ask him about,
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  • Growing israeli but also evangelical concerns.
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  • What where exactly is president trump
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  • Going with these negotiations with iran?
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  • If there's anyone we could trust to deal with iran and israel,
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  • It's president trump.
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  • But i don't think most of us are were expecting
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  • Trump to engage the iranians and to say, i want a deal.
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  • I don't want to bomb you if i can help it.
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  • We don't we're not opposed to that.
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  • We want a deal, but it has to be a good deal.
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  • So where are we in that process?
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  • Israelis and some evangelicals are anxious.
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  • I want to talk to him about that.
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  • I also want to talk to him about, the hostages.
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  • Where are we?
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  • Is there any hope of an american led breakthrough?
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  • President trump, of course, is coming to the region.
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  • He's not coming to israel, so far as we know.
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  • That's not in the plan. at least it's not public.
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  • So there's no evidence of that.
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  • But he is going to saudi arabia.
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  • He's going to the uae
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  • And the qatar, and we're going to ask the ambassador why?
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  • Because obviously that affects us.
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  • Middle east policy affects, u.s.
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  • Policy towards israel.
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  • But first, i just want to say, hey, welcome.
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  • It's great to have you.
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  • Thank you so. much, ambassador.
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  • Well, it's a privilege to be here
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  • And, you know, you and i talk often,
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  • But it's usually 7000 miles apart.
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  • So, what a delight to get to be with you here in, jerusalem.
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  • And i appreciate you able to come and. what have you.
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  • We often say this, that, you know,
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  • This is not a green screen. this is the real.
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  • It really is the real deal. yeah.
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  • And there's not another view
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  • Quite like this anywhere in jerusalem.
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  • Tbn, studio and its view of the old city is second to none.
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  • Amen. well, so glad to have you.
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  • This particular day
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  • Is interesting that you and i meet,
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  • Which this will air on thursday and over the weekend.
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  • But as you and i record this on sunday, my son,
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  • My youngest of four,
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  • Was we took him to be inducted into the idf.
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  • He's being drafted today.
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  • So this is a whole new thing.
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  • We've already had two of our four already serve in the idf.
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  • The oldest was already getting married
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  • And was heading back to the state, so,
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  • He didn't end up serving, but.
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  • So this is,
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  • All these questions i'm
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  • Going to ask you about war and peace and hostages.
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  • And, you know,
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  • It's becoming very, very personal once again for us.
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  • The other thing is, this morning, a
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  • Ballistic missile built by iran but fired from yemen
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  • Broke through u.s.
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  • And israeli anti-missile defense systems and hit
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  • The grounds of ben-gurion international airport,
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  • Our main civilian airport. so maybe we start there.
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  • Just your reaction to these incredible, videos of passengers
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  • And all being terrified by that explosion.
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  • You know, it's sort of like everyday life
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  • In the world of an israeli.
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  • Now, not every time
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  • Missile gets through, most of the time, either.
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  • The arrows, the iron dome of the fired
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  • Missiles will intercept it, take it out.
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  • In fact, a little earlier this morning, we heard a loud boom!
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  • I was out in the backyard with my two little dogs,
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  • And i hit this big boom.
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  • And it was, miles from us.
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  • Didn't even activate the jerusalem sirens.
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  • But it gives you some idea of the small country.
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  • The sound of the boom
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  • Was large, and it was a missile being intercepted.
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  • Then later, this one got through.
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  • And that's unfortunate, because normally they don't.
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  • But no defense system is perfect.
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  • It's a very important reminder that israel is under attack
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  • Regularly from people who want to not just
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  • Trouble them, but want to destroy them.
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  • And it's part of the ethos of this incredible country
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  • That people have to wake up every day
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  • Knowing that there are threats to their very existence.
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  • Yeah, just over the last month, we've had, i think, 20.
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  • I think this is the 26 missile that was fired out
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  • Just from yemen.
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  • Again, most of them shot down by the us, sometimes by israel.
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  • President trump doing a great job at really unleashing.
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  • Taking the gloves off and hitting the houses.
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  • But obviously there's a lot more work
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  • To be done to neutralize that threat.
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  • Which brings us really to the larger threat,
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  • The head of the octopus, which is iran.
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  • But as i just started a moment ago,
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  • Israelis are anxious,
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  • Because we were, i think, fairly certain
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  • President trump would come in and
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  • And give a quick ultimatum, you know, make a fast deal
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  • Or that's it.
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  • They've had all these years,
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  • But we're now in engaged in this week by week process.
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  • And i think israelis and i think i think
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  • As, as time goes by, more evangelicals are thinking, okay,
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  • We do trust president trump more than any
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  • American president and certainly more than the last.
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  • But where's he going with this?
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  • Does he really trust the iranians
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  • To to cut a deal with him?
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  • What should we be knowing about what he's thinking
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  • And where he's going?
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  • I would say listen to what he actually says.
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  • Don't listen so much
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  • To the new york times in the washington post.
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  • It would have you to
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  • Believe that he's about to resurrect jcpoa,
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  • 2.0 and go back and embrace the obama policies.
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  • He was the one that got rid of jcpoa in his first term.
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  • He's been very clear.
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  • The iranians are not going to have a nuclear weapon.
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  • That's not on the table.
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  • There's no negotiation about that part of it.
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  • Two things i think people need to kind of
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  • Look at in the big picture.
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  • One, this is a president who would rather
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  • Find a peaceful way for the iranian government
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  • To back off their ambition for a nuclear weapon.
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  • It's not a matter of
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  • Are they going to get one, maybe just a little smaller one.
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  • They're not going to get one.
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  • That's one thing he has been consistent.
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  • Never change that. never hesitated to say it.
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  • Can there
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  • Be a way to avert an all out war?
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  • If so,
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  • This is a president who would rather have peace than war.
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  • Yeah. well, i think you we all evangelicals
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  • Support that, right?
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  • You're a peacemaker. that's what we want.
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  • But we have very, very high doubts
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  • Over a long period of time, 50 years, that this regime
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  • Or anyone like them would make a deal that we could.
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  • Yeah.
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  • I don't i don't think anybody believes
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  • That the iranians
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  • Will make a good deal unless they're doing it
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  • Just to protect themselves, their regime.
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  • And if they make one,
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  • How do we ever believe they will keep it?
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  • For 46 years, the ayatollahs have been in power.
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  • They've never made or kept a deal. yet,
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  • That somehow showed that they
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  • Were willing to be good neighbors.
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  • They're terrible neighbors.
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  • They're the ones who have financed the houses.
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  • Hezbollah and hamas.
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  • The reason
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  • So many people got slaughtered on october the 7th is because
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  • You can say it was hamas, and it was,
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  • But the check was written in tehran.
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  • And if you look at even those missiles
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  • That came out, as you mentioned,
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  • You know, those are really postmarked
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  • Tehran, the houthis may have shot them,
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  • But they were first delivered to the houses from the iranians.
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  • So we're not seeing any evidence
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  • That they're changing their ways, that the,
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  • Leopard is getting rid of its spots.
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  • So i want to be clear about that.
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  • The president's message
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  • Just last week, when he was on the way to
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  • The funeral for the pope and he was asked by reporter,
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  • Are you going to let israel drag the united states into a war?
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  • I love this answer
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  • Because he said, nobody's dragging us into anything.
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  • If the iranians don't understand,
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  • They're not going to have a nuclear weapon.
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  • They won't.
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  • We won't be dragged into it.
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  • I'll be leading it.
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  • I'll make sure that they don't have it.
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  • I would say those kind of words and statements are much more
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  • The policy of the trump administration
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  • Than hearing somebody who is spouting off
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  • To the new york times or the washington post,
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  • Neither of which are going to ever give donald trump,
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  • Time of day. and fair enough.
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  • Fair enough.
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  • But, early
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  • On, you got steve wyckoff,
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  • Who was a very accomplished negotiator, in fact.
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  • We'll get to it later in the show, that he did
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  • A brilliant job getting the the next round of hostages out.
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  • And we hope that he can do it again.
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  • But he does look a little stretched, a little thin.
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  • He's trying to end the war between russia and ukraine.
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  • Get all of our hostage out.
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  • Deal with the iranian portfolio.
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  • And the winning portfolio is a steep
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  • That's a steep learning curve.
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  • His his first statement, the first substantive statement
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  • Was that he was going to let the u.s.
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  • Was going to let iran
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  • Continue to enrich and i think 3.67% or something.
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  • That's jcpoa numbers.
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  • That's why there is this talk of maybe we're going back.
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  • Now he did retract that. yeah.
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  • But that seemed like the misstep
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  • That a doesn't seem like steve.
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  • But on the other hand, he's got a lot of things to cover.
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  • Is it too much. is he i mean is there any
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  • There are
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  • Some reasons to be concerned that maybe with everything going
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  • On, president trump might take a deal that he wouldn't
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  • Wish for, but he would be okay with?
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  • No, i don't have that anxiety.
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  • I'm not saying that,
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  • And i've talked to the president,
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  • I've talked to steve wyckoff, i've talked to marco rubio.
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  • I'm not hearing anywhere in the administration
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  • That there's a willingness just to get a deal to have a deal.
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  • And i think increasingly, there's a clear understanding
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  • That the iranians can't, you know, do some,
  • 00:10:01.190 --> 00:10:04.627
  • Shock and, and jiving on this.
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  • They're going to have to get down to the bare bones.
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  • They're going to have to be willing
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  • To let inspections take place if anything happens.
  • 00:10:10.099 --> 00:10:13.402
  • But i also believe the president would like to say,
  • 00:10:13.402 --> 00:10:16.472
  • Sort of to quote the words of a john lennon song,
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  • Let's give peace a chance.
  • 00:10:18.941 --> 00:10:20.643
  • Now, peace may not have a chance in this,
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  • But if there has to be an all out attack,
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  • I think the president wants to be able to say
  • 00:10:28.617 --> 00:10:30.119
  • To the world, look, we did everything possible
  • 00:10:30.119 --> 00:10:34.423
  • To achieve some, positive results.
  • 00:10:34.423 --> 00:10:37.460
  • I mean, diplomatically.
  • 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:39.695
  • But when diplomacy fails, the military steps in.
  • 00:10:39.695 --> 00:10:42.598
  • It's always better to put diplomacy first,
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  • Military action second.
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  • I agree. with that.
  • 00:10:47.036 --> 00:10:47.970
  • And i and i appreciate the way you put it.
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  • When we come back, let's talk
  • 00:10:49.138 --> 00:10:50.306
  • About why president trump is coming into the region,
  • 00:10:50.306 --> 00:10:54.210
  • To talk to our arab allies.
  • 00:10:54.210 --> 00:10:55.678
  • And iran certainly give me a critical issue.
  • 00:10:55.678 --> 00:10:58.347
  • Don't go away.
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  • We'll be right back on the rosenberg report.
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  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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  • Why is president trump coming to the middle east
  • 00:11:05.454 --> 00:11:07.857
  • Next week to saudi arabia, the uae and qatar,
  • 00:11:07.857 --> 00:11:10.993
  • But not israel?
  • 00:11:10.993 --> 00:11:12.294
  • And why is trump visiting qatar at all when this gulf arab
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  • Regime is so closely aligned with iran and hamas?
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  • Don't miss ambassador huckabee's reasons to joel's
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  • Direct questions when the rosenberg report
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  • Continues on tbn right after this break.
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  • Continues on tbn right after this break.
  • 00:11:29.003 --> 00:11:33.149
  • Okay.
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  • The president's coming.
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  • It's a big first international trip, aside
  • 00:11:35.351 --> 00:11:37.186
  • From paying his respects to pope francis,
  • 00:11:37.186 --> 00:11:39.688
  • But he's not coming to israel. so let's start there.
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  • You're the ambassador to israel.
  • 00:11:42.024 --> 00:11:43.392
  • Why isn't the president
  • 00:11:43.392 --> 00:11:44.426
  • Who's the most pro-israel president in history?
  • 00:11:44.426 --> 00:11:46.896
  • Why is he not coming here?
  • 00:11:46.896 --> 00:11:47.963
  • I mean,
  • 00:11:47.963 --> 00:11:48.764
  • He spent an enormous amount of time
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  • With prime minister netanyahu in washington.
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  • And i think that right now, he would love to see the abraham
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  • Accords expanded.
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  • He would love to see a greater level of partnership
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  • Within the region and the gulf states.
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  • So it makes sense.
  • 00:12:02.444 --> 00:12:03.479
  • He's had a strong relationship with the saudis.
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  • They're a key to moving the abraham accords forward.
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  • So i think that's part of it.
  • 00:12:09.785 --> 00:12:10.953
  • There's also some very significant
  • 00:12:10.953 --> 00:12:12.588
  • Economic opportunities
  • 00:12:12.588 --> 00:12:13.889
  • That he's going to be dealing with and announcing on the trip.
  • 00:12:13.889 --> 00:12:16.892
  • So he's going to three, key strategic.
  • 00:12:16.892 --> 00:12:20.262
  • I would say allies of the region,
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  • The saudis, the qataris and the emiratis.
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  • The emiratis are already part of the abraham accords.
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  • They're a country that i have great respect for
  • 00:12:28.304 --> 00:12:30.973
  • Because they stuck themselves
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  • Out there in the early days of the abraham accords.
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  • Much to the chagrin of some of their neighbors.
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  • But it's proven to be an increase, a good relationship.
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  • And i had a visit with the ambassador,
  • 00:12:41.951 --> 00:12:44.153
  • From the emirati to israel.
  • 00:12:44.753 --> 00:12:47.623
  • They're extremely pleased
  • 00:12:47.623 --> 00:12:49.325
  • With what has resulted in terms of economic activity.
  • 00:12:49.325 --> 00:12:52.728
  • There's a lot more that can be done.
  • 00:12:52.728 --> 00:12:54.997
  • And they're looking to do it. yeah, no, i agree.
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  • You may recall that one of the delegations
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  • Of evangelical leaders that i led that unfortunately,
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  • You know, i invited you just for the record.
  • 00:13:02.905 --> 00:13:04.540
  • But for the record, i did invite mike.
  • 00:13:04.540 --> 00:13:06.408
  • What's on. your fault?
  • 00:13:06.408 --> 00:13:07.610
  • I know exactly, but you had a full, dance card.
  • 00:13:07.610 --> 00:13:11.280
  • But we met with, president mohammed bin zayed.
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  • He was the crown prince at the time,
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  • And it wasn't boilerplate, but i said to him, look, you know,
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  • This is the first country that's invited us first.
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  • You're the first leader
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  • That's invited
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  • Us, that in the arab world that doesn't have a peace treaty
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  • With israel.
  • 00:13:27.296 --> 00:13:27.830
  • And we're just looking
  • 00:13:27.830 --> 00:13:29.031
  • Who is going to be the next arab leader to, to make peace.
  • 00:13:29.031 --> 00:13:31.867
  • It's been, at that point, a quarter of a century
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  • After egypt, after jordan.
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  • And i just wanted to get it sort of on the record with him.
  • 00:13:36.372 --> 00:13:38.841
  • And he said, joel, it's going to be me.
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  • And we were all of us.
  • 00:13:41.310 --> 00:13:42.378
  • We're like. the newsmaker. yeah.
  • 00:13:42.378 --> 00:13:44.113
  • And he spent the next hour
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  • Explaining how his calculus had changed.
  • 00:13:45.915 --> 00:13:48.450
  • He said, israel's not the threat.
  • 00:13:48.450 --> 00:13:50.319
  • Yeah, that we thought once.
  • 00:13:50.319 --> 00:13:52.154
  • And that was all of us in the arab world thought it's iran
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  • That's the threat.
  • 00:13:55.190 --> 00:13:56.225
  • And that that calculus shift changed everything
  • 00:13:56.225 --> 00:13:59.561
  • Because we hadn't agreed that that was an off
  • 00:13:59.561 --> 00:14:02.131
  • The record conversation at the time.
  • 00:14:02.131 --> 00:14:03.565
  • So we walked out with this huge headline.
  • 00:14:03.565 --> 00:14:05.768
  • Yeah, we didn't share it because you know what?
  • 00:14:05.768 --> 00:14:07.970
  • We get our word.
  • 00:14:07.970 --> 00:14:09.104
  • But sure enough,
  • 00:14:09.104 --> 00:14:10.272
  • It was just about two years almost to the day,
  • 00:14:10.272 --> 00:14:12.975
  • And he announced with president trump and, prime minister
  • 00:14:12.975 --> 00:14:15.644
  • Netanyahu, that he was starting the abraham accords process.
  • 00:14:15.644 --> 00:14:19.448
  • And it was really amazing.
  • 00:14:19.448 --> 00:14:21.150
  • So what should
  • 00:14:21.150 --> 00:14:23.018
  • But those arab countries, i can tell you
  • 00:14:23.018 --> 00:14:24.687
  • From personal conversations with mbs, mbz and others,
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  • They're very worried about the iran threat.
  • 00:14:27.222 --> 00:14:29.725
  • So again. yeah.
  • 00:14:29.725 --> 00:14:30.626
  • Is iran part of the agenda?
  • 00:14:30.626 --> 00:14:33.796
  • I mean, a briefing on what's going to happen,
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  • And how president trump is proceeding
  • 00:14:37.866 --> 00:14:40.836
  • With these negotiations for these arab leaders face to face.
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  • Heart to heart
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  • Yeah.
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  • I'm not able to talk about what will all be on the
  • 00:14:45.641 --> 00:14:48.043
  • The table.
  • 00:14:48.043 --> 00:14:49.244
  • I think it's fair to say that, you've assessed correctly
  • 00:14:49.244 --> 00:14:52.881
  • That everyone in the region understands
  • 00:14:52.881 --> 00:14:55.217
  • Israel is not their enemy.
  • 00:14:55.217 --> 00:14:56.685
  • It just isn't
  • 00:14:56.685 --> 00:14:57.987
  • The real threat, the real enemy, the real danger, the outlier.
  • 00:14:57.987 --> 00:15:01.924
  • And all of this is iran.
  • 00:15:01.924 --> 00:15:04.193
  • And then it that multiplies exponentially
  • 00:15:04.193 --> 00:15:08.364
  • Should they be able to obtain a nuclear weapon.
  • 00:15:08.364 --> 00:15:11.166
  • So they're a threat, right now with their capacity
  • 00:15:11.166 --> 00:15:14.036
  • With ballistic missiles and all of the just things
  • 00:15:14.036 --> 00:15:17.973
  • That they have continued to build up.
  • 00:15:17.973 --> 00:15:19.608
  • And people remember that israel
  • 00:15:19.608 --> 00:15:21.643
  • Degraded their military pretty handily,
  • 00:15:21.643 --> 00:15:23.879
  • Pretty much took down their air support system.
  • 00:15:23.879 --> 00:15:26.281
  • But the iranians have been building
  • 00:15:27.049 --> 00:15:29.051
  • Rockets, missiles and bombs every day as fast as they can
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  • Since that happened.
  • 00:15:33.022 --> 00:15:34.456
  • So if anyone thinks that they just stopped and quit
  • 00:15:34.456 --> 00:15:36.692
  • Building their inventory, they're quite wrong.
  • 00:15:36.692 --> 00:15:38.827
  • And they're weaker today
  • 00:15:38.827 --> 00:15:41.463
  • Than they were when the attacks from israel,
  • 00:15:41.463 --> 00:15:44.767
  • Were launched to counter the attacks that israel had had.
  • 00:15:44.767 --> 00:15:48.804
  • But they're stronger today than they were yesterday.
  • 00:15:48.804 --> 00:15:51.373
  • And they'll be stronger tomorrow.
  • 00:15:51.373 --> 00:15:52.674
  • Time is of the essence.
  • 00:15:52.674 --> 00:15:53.976
  • So the other big element
  • 00:15:53.976 --> 00:15:55.911
  • That certainly the saudis want to hear,
  • 00:15:55.911 --> 00:15:58.180
  • But all the arab
  • 00:15:58.180 --> 00:15:59.348
  • States want to hear is where are we going with gaza?
  • 00:15:59.348 --> 00:16:02.951
  • And aren't you going to make a palestinian state?
  • 00:16:02.951 --> 00:16:05.387
  • We can't really make peace with israel, at least from riyadh
  • 00:16:05.387 --> 00:16:08.524
  • To jerusalem, unless there's a palestinian state.
  • 00:16:08.524 --> 00:16:11.393
  • That's what they're saying.
  • 00:16:11.393 --> 00:16:12.494
  • Yeah.
  • 00:16:12.494 --> 00:16:13.395
  • Now, that's president trump's position
  • 00:16:13.395 --> 00:16:17.032
  • Historically was a demilitarized palestinian state.
  • 00:16:17.032 --> 00:16:20.702
  • That was the deal of the century that he rolled out in,
  • 00:16:20.702 --> 00:16:23.439
  • January 2020.
  • 00:16:23.439 --> 00:16:25.240
  • Where are we now?
  • 00:16:25.674 --> 00:16:26.708
  • I mean, what's,
  • 00:16:26.708 --> 00:16:27.943
  • What is the president's position on a palestinian state,
  • 00:16:27.943 --> 00:16:31.146
  • Given that gaza has become, you know, it
  • 00:16:31.146 --> 00:16:33.382
  • Almost effectively was a palestinian.
  • 00:16:33.382 --> 00:16:35.017
  • Will say it's a palestinian state.
  • 00:16:35.017 --> 00:16:37.219
  • The people need to remember that the 10,000 jews that lived in
  • 00:16:37.219 --> 00:16:40.355
  • Gaza were all moved by gunpoint of the idf,
  • 00:16:40.355 --> 00:16:44.326
  • The israeli army were
  • 00:16:44.326 --> 00:16:45.794
  • The ones who moved the jewish people out back in 2005.
  • 00:16:45.794 --> 00:16:49.064
  • Two years later, those people voted in hamas
  • 00:16:49.064 --> 00:16:51.233
  • To run the country.
  • 00:16:51.233 --> 00:16:52.434
  • And it's been a disaster ever since.
  • 00:16:52.434 --> 00:16:54.703
  • It was a de facto palestinian state.
  • 00:16:54.703 --> 00:16:57.306
  • When people say, we need a palestinian state,
  • 00:16:57.306 --> 00:16:58.874
  • I said, you had one called gaza.
  • 00:16:58.874 --> 00:17:00.542
  • How'd that turn out?
  • 00:17:00.542 --> 00:17:01.877
  • But i do think october the 7th changed everything.
  • 00:17:01.877 --> 00:17:04.847
  • It changed it certainly inside of israel.
  • 00:17:04.847 --> 00:17:07.282
  • Israelis who are front and center.
  • 00:17:07.282 --> 00:17:09.985
  • Two state solution.
  • 00:17:09.985 --> 00:17:11.954
  • You're not talking about that anymore
  • 00:17:11.954 --> 00:17:13.622
  • Because they see that the closer you let
  • 00:17:13.622 --> 00:17:15.357
  • People who have been trained to hate you live next to you,
  • 00:17:15.357 --> 00:17:18.760
  • It doesn't necessarily go well.
  • 00:17:19.394 --> 00:17:21.396
  • So when people talk about a palestinian state,
  • 00:17:21.396 --> 00:17:23.832
  • My next question is where's this going to be? right.
  • 00:17:23.832 --> 00:17:25.901
  • Does it have to be in judea and samaria?
  • 00:17:25.901 --> 00:17:27.903
  • Does it have to be in land that israel,
  • 00:17:27.903 --> 00:17:31.039
  • Really has had claim to for 30, 500 years?
  • 00:17:31.907 --> 00:17:34.276
  • Or is it possible to say there'll be a palestinian state,
  • 00:17:34.276 --> 00:17:36.578
  • But it's going to be in a region that has some room.
  • 00:17:36.578 --> 00:17:39.982
  • There just isn't that much room here.
  • 00:17:39.982 --> 00:17:41.683
  • And i remind people, muslim countries own 644 times
  • 00:17:41.683 --> 00:17:46.321
  • The amount of real estate that israel has. 644 times.
  • 00:17:46.321 --> 00:17:50.159
  • So when people say, how come israel doesn't give up
  • 00:17:50.159 --> 00:17:52.728
  • Some land?
  • 00:17:52.728 --> 00:17:53.929
  • I'm thinking, why would they?
  • 00:17:53.929 --> 00:17:56.265
  • Would any other country in the world who won the war
  • 00:17:56.265 --> 00:17:58.400
  • Say they do that because.
  • 00:17:58.400 --> 00:17:59.601
  • The president is so determined to get a story?
  • 00:17:59.601 --> 00:18:02.804
  • I mean,
  • 00:18:02.804 --> 00:18:04.072
  • This would be the ultimate game changing mother of all peace.
  • 00:18:04.072 --> 00:18:06.975
  • It was saudi israeli deal with u.s.
  • 00:18:06.975 --> 00:18:09.044
  • Guarantees and so forth.
  • 00:18:09.044 --> 00:18:10.546
  • But if the saudis are saying we need a palestinian state
  • 00:18:10.546 --> 00:18:13.448
  • And the president is skeptical at best,
  • 00:18:13.448 --> 00:18:17.352
  • And the team around him is pretty skeptical at best,
  • 00:18:17.352 --> 00:18:21.023
  • How does one square that and especially
  • 00:18:21.823 --> 00:18:23.892
  • When he's making his first stop, saudi arabia.
  • 00:18:23.892 --> 00:18:27.362
  • I would just say stay tuned. let's see.
  • 00:18:27.362 --> 00:18:29.565
  • And the the honest answer to that is i don't know.
  • 00:18:29.565 --> 00:18:33.368
  • I'm not sure anybody does,
  • 00:18:33.936 --> 00:18:35.737
  • But if anybody can pull this off is president trump.
  • 00:18:35.737 --> 00:18:38.073
  • I've never seen anyone quite like him
  • 00:18:38.073 --> 00:18:40.275
  • Who's able to sit down with people
  • 00:18:40.275 --> 00:18:41.910
  • Who have a very hostile position.
  • 00:18:41.910 --> 00:18:43.645
  • And by the time it's over, you know, they're making a deal.
  • 00:18:43.645 --> 00:18:47.049
  • He's really good at this.
  • 00:18:47.049 --> 00:18:49.251
  • He wrote the book on it, the art of the deal.
  • 00:18:49.251 --> 00:18:51.587
  • And if, if it can be done,
  • 00:18:51.587 --> 00:18:54.523
  • I don't know of anyone else who could get this done
  • 00:18:54.523 --> 00:18:57.159
  • Other than president trump. okay.
  • 00:18:57.159 --> 00:18:58.760
  • When we come back, i want to talk about the hostages
  • 00:18:58.760 --> 00:19:01.363
  • And where we go from that, with that, because it's
  • 00:19:01.363 --> 00:19:04.600
  • It's such a festering wound.
  • 00:19:04.600 --> 00:19:07.469
  • Israelis cannot.
  • 00:19:07.469 --> 00:19:09.037
  • It was difficult to celebrate in the 77
  • 00:19:09.037 --> 00:19:12.107
  • Years of this modern, prophetic jewish state,
  • 00:19:12.107 --> 00:19:15.310
  • Knowing that 24 or
  • 00:19:15.310 --> 00:19:18.146
  • So of our countrymen are not free.
  • 00:19:18.146 --> 00:19:21.283
  • They're not safe.
  • 00:19:21.283 --> 00:19:22.451
  • They're being tortured.
  • 00:19:22.451 --> 00:19:23.585
  • And maybe they're not even all alive at this point.
  • 00:19:23.585 --> 00:19:25.687
  • So, let's talk about that in a moment.
  • 00:19:25.687 --> 00:19:27.589
  • But one more really quick. i got to ask you. qatar.
  • 00:19:27.589 --> 00:19:30.292
  • So he's going to qatar now.
  • 00:19:30.292 --> 00:19:32.227
  • I'll just, you know,
  • 00:19:32.694 --> 00:19:34.529
  • You're not the ambassador to qatar.
  • 00:19:34.529 --> 00:19:35.864
  • I get that you're not the foreign minister,
  • 00:19:35.864 --> 00:19:37.332
  • But, secretary state.
  • 00:19:37.332 --> 00:19:38.400
  • But i got a problem with qatar.
  • 00:19:38.400 --> 00:19:40.502
  • I got a problem because they are playing both sides.
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  • They are a deep friend of hamas.
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  • They host hamas leaders.
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  • They host. they. they love iran.
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  • And yet they're they've got our centcom base,
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  • And they're acting like our ally.
  • 00:19:51.146 --> 00:19:53.115
  • But after all this time, 18 months.
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  • Why can't qatar pressure hamas to get these hostages out?
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  • Why is the president going to qatar?
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  • I think it may be in part to, to put a little encouragement
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  • There as
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  • Part of economic opportunities
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  • That will be beneficial
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  • To the us and probably to qatar as well. but,
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  • I would just say this the reason that ultimately hamas
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  • Has not bowed to the pressure,
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  • And there's been a lot of pressure
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  • From the egyptians, from the guitar is from the emirati
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  • Pressure has been there.
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  • They've got nothing else to hold on to.
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  • Hostages are there one last card.
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  • And they know that.
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  • We know they gave up those hostages.
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  • There's nothing left.
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  • No one there to protect them, nobody there
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  • To give them a reason for hanging on.
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  • It's a very difficult decision.
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  • I know from talking to hostage families,
  • 00:20:44.333 --> 00:20:46.668
  • Which i've done almost every day that i've been here.
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  • You know, if this were my child, i'd say i don't care
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  • What you got to do. get my kid home.
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  • That's all i want to do. get him home.
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  • Then we'll worry about everything else.
  • 00:20:55.310 --> 00:20:56.978
  • But it's not quite that easy.
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  • I wish it was because i have a feeling that would be done.
  • 00:20:58.347 --> 00:21:01.883
  • But the leaders who are inside gaza running hamas
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  • Actually have a more hard line than the hamas leaders
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  • That are from the outside.
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  • There's a lot more willingness from those on the outside
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  • To get the hostages out than there are from
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  • The hamas leaders on the inside. all right.
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  • Hold that thought more.
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  • When we come back next on the rosenberg report.
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  • Coming up next on the rosenberg report.
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  • Just how close are ambassador mike huckabee and israeli
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  • Prime minister benjamin netanyahu?
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  • And how does this unique
  • 00:21:34.583 --> 00:21:35.984
  • Relationship between a devout american evangelical
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  • And a traditional israeli jewish man impact u.s.
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  • Israeli relations?
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  • Find out when the rosenberg report continues on tbn
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  • Right after this break.
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  • Right after this break.
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  • Mr. ambassador, we only have a few minutes left.
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  • I want to ask you about your relationship
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  • With prime minister netanyahu.
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  • First of all, the longest serving prime minister
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  • In the history of modern israel and the first full night,
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  • Certainly the first cabinet shabbat dinner that you had.
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  • You and janet
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  • Were invited
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  • To be their guests, benjamin and sarah, at their home.
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  • What was that like?
  • 00:22:14.857 --> 00:22:16.359
  • You know, without giving you anything that's inappropriate.
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  • But, you know, your relationship,
  • 00:22:18.628 --> 00:22:21.330
  • You know, being welcomed and but you got a lot of challenges,
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  • To work on.
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  • Together in the, the years ahead.
  • 00:22:26.669 --> 00:22:29.172
  • One of the advantages is that i've known the prime minister
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  • For over 30 years,
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  • And i've been in and out of israel, met with him.
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  • I don't know how many times, dozens and dozens of times
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  • Even went at his invitation to campaign for him
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  • When he was in one of his reelection in 2018.
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  • So we have a long standing relationship.
  • 00:22:43.920 --> 00:22:45.988
  • It's a very warm one.
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  • It's a little different now
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  • Because i'm not just here as a friend.
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  • I'm representing president trump in the united states,
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  • So i'm not able to say anything you want.
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  • You got it.
  • 00:22:56.299 --> 00:22:57.366
  • My job is to carry the message of the president.
  • 00:22:57.366 --> 00:23:00.002
  • I tell people an ambassador is not the chemist.
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  • He doesn't get to make the medicine.
  • 00:23:03.105 --> 00:23:04.807
  • He's the pharmacist.
  • 00:23:04.807 --> 00:23:05.975
  • He just delivers it and dispenses it.
  • 00:23:05.975 --> 00:23:08.377
  • But we do still have the kind of relationship that is very,
  • 00:23:08.377 --> 00:23:12.448
  • Honest, forthright and trusting.
  • 00:23:13.082 --> 00:23:16.118
  • And i would just close by this.
  • 00:23:16.118 --> 00:23:18.754
  • I've spent so much time with the prime minister
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  • Since i have been here that i told him the other day.
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  • If i spend any more time with you, you're going to have
  • 00:23:23.259 --> 00:23:26.028
  • To put me on your family health insurance plan as a dependent.
  • 00:23:26.028 --> 00:23:29.232
  • I'm spending more time with you that i am with my wife.
  • 00:23:29.232 --> 00:23:32.101
  • So what would you think of how much this has closed the gap
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  • From previous administration that wouldn't even invite
  • 00:23:35.238 --> 00:23:38.307
  • The prime minister in wartime
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  • To the white house, to the oval office.
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  • Prime minister has already been there twice.
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  • I think you make a good point
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  • That, you know, if
  • 00:23:45.214 --> 00:23:46.215
  • If trump decides just to go visit
  • 00:23:46.215 --> 00:23:47.617
  • The arabs, it's not like he he's not blowing off the,
  • 00:23:47.617 --> 00:23:51.120
  • The israeli prime minister and sending you.
  • 00:23:51.120 --> 00:23:53.556
  • Yes, you're a friend and your relationship
  • 00:23:53.556 --> 00:23:55.424
  • Has changed, but that's why he's sending you
  • 00:23:55.424 --> 00:23:57.393
  • Is because you guys are so close and you have
  • 00:23:57.393 --> 00:23:59.729
  • That sense of deep trust and you know each other.
  • 00:23:59.729 --> 00:24:01.864
  • And, it's also interesting. you just have to say,
  • 00:24:01.864 --> 00:24:05.668
  • To have the first
  • 00:24:06.102 --> 00:24:07.336
  • His, this historic, first devout, openly,
  • 00:24:07.336 --> 00:24:11.641
  • Devout evangelical christian be the u.s.
  • 00:24:11.641 --> 00:24:14.410
  • Ambassador.
  • 00:24:14.410 --> 00:24:15.077
  • And again, i was so blessed,
  • 00:24:15.077 --> 00:24:17.046
  • I was surprised, but not in the cosmic sense of it.
  • 00:24:17.046 --> 00:24:20.182
  • But then and i was just so amazed to see you and janet
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  • And your security detail walk up to us,
  • 00:24:22.518 --> 00:24:24.921
  • Outside the garden tomb on easter.
  • 00:24:24.921 --> 00:24:27.089
  • Resurrection sunday morning. what a blessing.
  • 00:24:27.089 --> 00:24:29.525
  • And you couldn't say. well, we just got here.
  • 00:24:29.525 --> 00:24:31.594
  • We're going to sleep in,
  • 00:24:31.594 --> 00:24:32.795
  • And we wouldn't have thought any worse of you or not,
  • 00:24:32.795 --> 00:24:35.765
  • That we would have worshiped, but, i mean, the,
  • 00:24:35.765 --> 00:24:38.034
  • I think i have you, but thank you for doing that.
  • 00:24:38.034 --> 00:24:40.469
  • That was such a great signal as a believer. yeah.
  • 00:24:40.469 --> 00:24:43.139
  • Having nothing to do with being the ambassador.
  • 00:24:43.139 --> 00:24:44.674
  • But you are the first.
  • 00:24:44.674 --> 00:24:45.808
  • I'm sure it was ever done.
  • 00:24:45.808 --> 00:24:47.109
  • That an incredible experience to be there on easter sunday.
  • 00:24:47.109 --> 00:24:49.579
  • I told the president i wanted to be
  • 00:24:49.579 --> 00:24:51.847
  • On location by the end of passover,
  • 00:24:52.615 --> 00:24:55.551
  • And by easter sunday i made it by a day and a half, barely.
  • 00:24:55.551 --> 00:24:59.155
  • But i made it,
  • 00:24:59.155 --> 00:25:00.122
  • And i wasn't going to miss
  • 00:25:00.122 --> 00:25:01.190
  • The opportunity to celebrate easter sunday
  • 00:25:01.190 --> 00:25:03.626
  • At one of the most amazing places on earth the garden tomb.
  • 00:25:03.626 --> 00:25:06.362
  • The empty tomb. amen.
  • 00:25:06.362 --> 00:25:07.597
  • Thank you so much. well, thank you guys for watching.
  • 00:25:07.597 --> 00:25:09.932
  • There's so much more.
  • 00:25:09.932 --> 00:25:11.067
  • We will we will and could, but we will in the future.
  • 00:25:11.067 --> 00:25:13.636
  • Discuss with, ambassador mike huckabee.
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  • Thank you so much for watching the show.
  • 00:25:16.172 --> 00:25:17.673
  • Hey, please be sure to post a link to this
  • 00:25:17.673 --> 00:25:21.210
  • Show, on your social media so your family and friends
  • 00:25:21.210 --> 00:25:24.547
  • Can hear directly from the new ambassador.
  • 00:25:24.547 --> 00:25:28.184
  • Don't forget to go to joshua fund.com and check out.
  • 00:25:28.184 --> 00:25:32.088
  • And i hope you will sign
  • 00:25:32.088 --> 00:25:33.189
  • Up for our alaska cruise the first week of august.
  • 00:25:33.189 --> 00:25:36.926
  • I wish i could bring the ambassador and his wife,
  • 00:25:36.926 --> 00:25:38.761
  • But now he's in this new role. he can't do that.
  • 00:25:38.761 --> 00:25:41.297
  • He's done wonderful thing for the joshua fund in the past.
  • 00:25:41.297 --> 00:25:43.432
  • We're very grateful.
  • 00:25:43.432 --> 00:25:44.533
  • But check that out. it's gonna be an amazing time.
  • 00:25:44.533 --> 00:25:46.235
  • We're not yet ready to bring,
  • 00:25:46.235 --> 00:25:48.938
  • You know, full big large tours here to israel.
  • 00:25:48.938 --> 00:25:51.440
  • We'll get there.
  • 00:25:51.440 --> 00:25:52.642
  • And i think we're moving in the right direction,
  • 00:25:52.642 --> 00:25:54.110
  • But with just with the ballistic missile,
  • 00:25:54.110 --> 00:25:56.112
  • You know, landing at ben-gurion airport
  • 00:25:56.112 --> 00:25:58.214
  • As i recorded, we recorded the show today.
  • 00:25:58.214 --> 00:26:00.850
  • We're just not there.
  • 00:26:00.850 --> 00:26:02.084
  • And this is an opportunity to
  • 00:26:02.084 --> 00:26:03.653
  • To learn more, to be the last, to be refreshed
  • 00:26:03.653 --> 00:26:06.088
  • And to learn what is god doing?
  • 00:26:06.088 --> 00:26:07.623
  • And how can christians
  • 00:26:07.623 --> 00:26:08.624
  • Be a blessing to israel and our neighbors?
  • 00:26:08.624 --> 00:26:10.760
  • The alaska cruise joshua fund.com first week of august.
  • 00:26:10.760 --> 00:26:14.030
  • Don't miss it and please check it out.
  • 00:26:14.030 --> 00:26:16.399
  • Thank you so much for watching.
  • 00:26:16.399 --> 00:26:17.767
  • Have a great week with you and your family.
  • 00:26:17.767 --> 00:26:19.635
  • As you spend time in the word,
  • 00:26:19.635 --> 00:26:21.303
  • As you walk in the power of the holy spirit,
  • 00:26:21.303 --> 00:26:23.506
  • As you love your neighbor,
  • 00:26:23.506 --> 00:26:24.774
  • As yourself, and as you bless israel and her neighbor
  • 00:26:24.774 --> 00:26:27.843
  • In the name of jesus. have a great week.
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  • God bless you and i'll see you, lord willing,
  • 00:26:30.012 --> 00:26:32.248
  • Next week right here on the rosenberg report.
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