From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: April 10, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | April 10, 2025
- Welcome to
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- Stakelbeck tonight i'm
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- Erick stakelbeck and amid all the mainstream media frenzy
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- This week over tariffs, trade wars and rumors of war.
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- I want to start tonight with some encouragement
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- Because no matter what happens
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- With the stock market or in america, showdown
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- With communist china, god almighty is still on the throne.
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- And no matter how the markets perform,
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- He is in control always.
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- And the great thing about it is that he promises to work
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- All things together for the good of those
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- Who love him and are called according to his purpose,
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- And that he will never leave us or forsake us.
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- That includes me and you.
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- Now, from time to time, he likes to give us
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- Some wonderful reminders of his presence.
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- And one way he's doing it today is through biblical archeology.
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- Over the past few weeks, we've told you
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- About two incredible
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- Discoveries in israel that bring bible times to life.
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- First, a 2200 year old ancient
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- Pyramid like structure uncovered in the judean desert.
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- And then a 3800 year old egyptian scarab
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- Amulet found by a three year old israeli girl.
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- Both were amazing finds.
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- And now we've got another in the heart of jerusalem's old city.
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- Right now,
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- A landmark archeological excavation is underway
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- Beneath the church
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- Of the holy sepulcher, which is the traditional site
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- Of jesus's crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
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- And folks, the findings are incredible.
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- New evidence uncovered beneath the church's floor suggest
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- That olive trees and grapevines once grew on this very ground.
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- Just as chapter 19 of the gospel of john describes, quote,
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- Now in the place where he was crucified,
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- There was a garden and in the garden,
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- A new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.
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- There.
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- They laid jesus that detail that there was a garden near
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- The place of the crucifixion
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- Has long been accepted by christians on faith.
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- But now, thanks to advanced botanical and pollen analysis,
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- We have tangible scientific evidence
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- That a cultivated garden did indeed exist
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- On this very spot over 2000 years ago.
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- Let that sink in.
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- The most sacred site in all of christianity,
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- Believed to be the location of calvary and the empty tomb,
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- Is now revealing physical remnants
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- Of olive trees and grapevines that may have stood there
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- In jesus's day.
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- The lead archeologist on the excavation
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- Called the findings a puzzle coming together.
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- Her team has unearthed artifacts dating back to the iron age,
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- And they've identified
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- Layers of agricultural use from the time of jesus,
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- Confirming that this area was once just outside the city
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- Walls and used for farming and burial exactly
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- As the gospels describe.
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- And just in time for easter, the excavation in jerusalem
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- Is a timely reminder that the bible is not a myth.
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- It's not a collection of fairy tales.
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- The people, the places, the events, they're all real.
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- And the more we dig, the more truth we uncover.
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- So keep all this in mind and be encouraged
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- As we continue to navigate through challenging times.
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- Challenging but also promising.
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- Up next, filmmaker and author dinesh d'souza joins us to share
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- How the tide is turning for america and israel.
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- And it all starts now.
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- He's always been ahead of the
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- Curve on the big issues facing our country.
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- Dinesh d'souza is a best selling author, filmmaker
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- And host of the hit dinesh d'souza podcast.
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- He's also a true watchman on the wall for our country,
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- And he joins us now in studio. dinesh.
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- Always great to see you, my friend. it's a real pleasure.
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- Thanks for having me. yeah.
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- And you and i were talking off camera that every day we wake up
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- And it's, hey, what did president trump do today?
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- It's been a glorious few months since he took office.
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- Once again, the agenda is being pushed
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- Through at breakneck speed, it seems. dinesh.
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- What do you see as the greatest potential obstacles
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- To president trump's agenda?
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- Is it the threat of violence?
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- Is it these runaway, rogue leftist judges?
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- How do you see it?
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- I think
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- That trump is trying to change the way
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- That we sort of do business in america.
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- He's taking things that were established
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- For decades, perhaps even a century,
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- And he's turning assumptions into question.
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- So, for example,
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- I was a young policy analyst in the reagan white house.
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- At the very end of reagan's term.
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- We were told, as when i came into government, that
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- You have political appointees and you have career
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- Bureaucrats, and the career bureaucrats are like professors.
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- They have tenure.
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- There's nothing you can do about them.
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- You can change out the political appointees,
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- But you have this permanent class of administrators
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- Kind of ruling the administrative state, the swamp,
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- And nobody questioned it, even under reagan.
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- Now trump comes along and he goes
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- Sort of where does it say, you know, he
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- He suddenly says, aren't they part of the executive branch?
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- And if so, don't they come under the purview of the president?
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- So trump is
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- Truly rocking the boat in the literal sense of the term.
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- And as a result, he is making not just the political left
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- Or the democrats, but all the people
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- Who have gotten comfortably used to living off
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- And profiting off of our system nervous.
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- So all those people are his secret or not so secret
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- Opponents, and they are all wishing that he fails
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- And they are all working in their own way to subvert him.
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- He's literally draining the swamp in real time, it seems.
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- Those judges, those left wing activist district
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- Judges more to local level,
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- But they're blocking national legislation
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- That president trump is putting forth.
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- What can be done about them?
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- Can anything be done to kind of blunt their effect?
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- So here's an interesting question.
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- Where does a federal judge
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- Get the authority to make a nationwide injunction?
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- Right.
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- It would seem that
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- There's got to be some law, some statute
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- That gives the judges this power.
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- As it turns out, there is no such law.
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- And then you think, well,
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- There must be some provision in the constitution, but
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- You can read the constitution and you won't find it in there.
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- And then you think, well,
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- There's got to be some supreme
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- Court case, some landmark case, maybe decades old,
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- That said that a judge has every authority.
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- And it turns out there isn't one of those either.
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- So, in other words, you've got a an admittedly
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- Established practice with absolutely no warrant for it,
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- And yet it exists only because it has existed that way before.
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- And trump is basically saying, really,
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- It can't
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- Be this way and he's dramatizing that.
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- It can't be this way.
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- Because when you have 600 judges and let's assume roughly
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- Half are on the other side, politically,
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- They could stop every single thing
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- He did for his entire four year term.
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- Yeah, right.
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- So trump is essentially saying,
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- Is this really what is this a system
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- That we have gotten from the founders?
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- Is this what it amounts to now?
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- I think the supreme court
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- Is going to realize it can't allow this.
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- Yeah, this. so. right.
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- So i think what's going to happen
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- Is trump has been tempted to ignore the judges.
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- I don't think he should do that
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- Because in the event
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- That the republicans lost the house in the midterms,
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- The democrats would be given an easy grounds to impeach him
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- A third time.
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- You'd have the same rigmarole.
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- So what trump is better off doing, i think, is accelerated
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- Appeals through the process to the supreme court.
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- And i think the supreme court
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- Is going to have to come in and say, listen,
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- There's a limit to how much of this kind of block and tackle
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- These judges can do.
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- Otherwise, we don't really have
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- I won't say we don't have a country,
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- But we don't have an effective government.
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- Yeah, something's got to give, dinesh.
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- And it's amazing you laid it out.
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- President trump is he's smashing paradigms left and right,
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- Whether it's in this country, whether it's
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- With with gaza, say, whether it's russia, ukraine.
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- He kind of comes in, he analyzes the situation and says,
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- Why are we doing it that way?
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- A lot of it is just plain common sense.
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- One way to block that, of course, are these left
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- Wing judges we mentioned, but also the threat of violence.
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- One of the left's favorite tactics.
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- We see tesla dealerships and cars attacked.
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- We see riots, obviously, especially on college campuses.
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- We see swatting.
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- How concerned are you when these four years continue
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- As these four years continue to proceed,
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- That the left, unhinged as they are,
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- Will increasingly turn to violence?
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- I think the left saw
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- That violence paid off for them during the blm riots.
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- They got away with it.
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- They got a lot of money out of it.
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- Blm got grants from the most mainstream corporations.
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- They cashed in big time.
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- So the left basically saw
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- We can do this and nothing's going to happen to us.
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- For this reason.
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- I think it's very important that these rioters
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- And these vandals be held accountable and prosecuted.
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- I think pam bondi is determined to do that.
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- The reason elon musk is such a threat is he his he is going
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- After the privileged lifestyle
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- Of the bureaucratic class.
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- Now, these guys have set up a very elaborate system
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- In which they loot the taxpayer, they loot the treasury,
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- But they do it in the language of compassion.
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- So in other words, they act like they are doing good,
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- But in fact, they are doing very well for themselves.
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- And they have done this by setting up
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- A very elaborate system of money
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- That seemingly goes out of the government but
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- Circles back into their back pockets through a network.
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- Funny how that happens.
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- Right.
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- I mean, there's no other explanation
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- For how a politician making $150,000
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- A year can finish their careers and they've got $30 million.
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- Hello, nancy pelosi.
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- Hello. chuck schumer and the list goes on.
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- The clintons. the clintons tonight.
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- We got to leave it right there. we're heading to the break.
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- Everything that's been done in darkness is now being brought
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- To light.
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- More with the one and only dinesh d'souza after the break.
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- What about the end of bvi and the end of the invasion?
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- That's right.
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- The end of the invasion at our southern border.
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- More with the one and only dinesh d'souza, host
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- Of the dinesh d'souza podcast after the break.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight,
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- We are talking to the one
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- And only dinesh d'souza, host of the dinesh d'souza podcast,
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- Best selling author
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- Many times over and a voice for truth
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- For such a time as this, dinesh, something you've talked
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- A lot about is dni and its disastrous consequences,
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- Not only on american
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- Corporations at our universities and beyond.
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- Will president trump issuing executive orders
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- To effectively end dti in the federal government?
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- How important is that?
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- I think the real power that is being exercised
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- By trump is not even so much the executive order.
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- It is the literal, strong arming of the universities.
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- Yeah, so essentially trump is going in and saying, look,
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- All of you guys, whether you're private or public,
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- That distinction is not so important
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- When it comes to federal aid
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- Because all of you are getting hundreds
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- Of millions of dollars from the taxpayer.
- 00:12:18.872 --> 00:12:21.308
- And so trump's point is, you want the federal money,
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- Then you need to follow the letter of the law
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- When it comes to the civil rights act,
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- Which talks about nondiscrimination
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- And doesn't say you can discriminate against whites
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- And in favor of blacks, it doesn't talk about
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- Compensatory discrimination or benign discrimination.
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- All discrimination is bad.
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- It's not allowed.
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- Number two,
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- Title nine makes it very clear you have sports for boys.
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- You have sports for girls.
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- There's no intermingling allowed. boys i can't play.
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- And that's a violation of title nine.
- 00:12:52.105 --> 00:12:54.341
- So what trump is doing is he's taking
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- The manifest language of these statutes and laws
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- And telling the universities, these are the ten things
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- You have to do if you want to keep getting federal money.
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- Otherwise, we're going to hold it.
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- Hey, switching gears a bit,
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- You made a great film
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- Vindicating trump just before the 2024 election.
- 00:13:11.191 --> 00:13:14.060
- We talked about here and stand by tonight, great film,
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- A great film called 2000 duels as well.
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- What are your thoughts in terms of the state of play right now
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- When it comes to election integr
- 00:13:23.403 --> 00:13:29.009
- I think that the
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- Great value of 2000 miles was that it it busted a scheme
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- That once that is publicly busted, cannot be done again,
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- Because if you send mules in the middle of the night to drop
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- With backpacks full of ballots, wearing latex gloves,
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- You know,
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- Putting multiple ballots in a box
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- And taking photos of those ballots going
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- In, people are going to be looking for it.
- 00:13:50.297 --> 00:13:52.465
- And this happened in 2010, as you document in the film.
- 00:13:52.465 --> 00:13:55.535
- Yes, it happened in 2020.
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- And we didn't see it in 2024.
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- And the patriots were looking for it,
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- Which is why
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- I think the 2024 election was a more honest election than 2020.
- 00:14:02.342 --> 00:14:06.012
- But that being said, there is a lot of dishonesty
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- Or vulnerability,
- 00:14:09.883 --> 00:14:11.084
- Maybe a kind of a more a softer term in our system.
- 00:14:11.084 --> 00:14:14.921
- We have voter rolls that are notoriously unreliable,
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- Which is to say there are all kinds of people
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- On the rolls who shouldn't be there.
- 00:14:19.626 --> 00:14:21.628
- Many americans move, you get up and you leave arizona
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- And you go to pittsburgh, let's say,
- 00:14:25.732 --> 00:14:28.001
- Well, when you when you move, everybody knows you
- 00:14:28.001 --> 00:14:30.570
- Moved, right?
- 00:14:30.570 --> 00:14:31.805
- The dmv knows you moved and the tax people know you moved. and
- 00:14:31.805 --> 00:14:35.875
- The only place where your name
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- Is not taken off a list and added to a list
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- Automatically is the voter rolls.
- 00:14:39.913 --> 00:14:41.448
- So dishonest voter rolls are the starting point of voter fraud.
- 00:14:41.448 --> 00:14:46.119
- Of course,
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- Nothing is made easier
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- With the mail in drop boxes
- 00:14:47.620 --> 00:14:49.389
- Because that's another opportunity for fraud.
- 00:14:49.389 --> 00:14:51.858
- Because when you mail out ballots,
- 00:14:51.858 --> 00:14:54.694
- Who knows who opens the envelope?
- 00:14:54.694 --> 00:14:56.129
- Who knows who fills it out?
- 00:14:56.129 --> 00:14:58.131
- In fact, even when you get a mail
- 00:14:58.131 --> 00:14:59.699
- In ballot back and you open the ballot
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- And you take it out of the envelope,
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- The signature, as it turns out, is not on the ballot.
- 00:15:04.304 --> 00:15:06.539
- It's on the envelope.
- 00:15:06.539 --> 00:15:07.907
- So once you've separated those two pieces,
- 00:15:07.907 --> 00:15:10.176
- You can not even go back and put them back together
- 00:15:10.176 --> 00:15:13.279
- To see if this guy actually voted that ballot.
- 00:15:13.279 --> 00:15:16.783
- So our system has a lot of holes in it.
- 00:15:16.783 --> 00:15:20.587
- I think trump is
- 00:15:20.587 --> 00:15:22.022
- Determined to fix them,
- 00:15:22.022 --> 00:15:23.356
- But it's not going to be easy to fix, in part
- 00:15:23.356 --> 00:15:25.358
- Because the system of elections is run by the states.
- 00:15:25.358 --> 00:15:28.695
- Yeah, and kudos to you, dinesh, for shining a light on it
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- Without 2000 mules.
- 00:15:32.766 --> 00:15:34.367
- I don't think we would have had the success we had in 2024
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- In terms of keeping them honest as much as we could,
- 00:15:37.303 --> 00:15:40.540
- I guess you would say. about 30 seconds left.
- 00:15:40.540 --> 00:15:42.976
- You'll be right back with us after the break.
- 00:15:42.976 --> 00:15:44.611
- The invasion at our southern border over.
- 00:15:44.611 --> 00:15:47.480
- Now, in a sense, since president trump took office.
- 00:15:47.480 --> 00:15:50.150
- Trump has stopped it dead in its tracks.
- 00:15:50.150 --> 00:15:51.918
- And yet we have to say that there have been millions,
- 00:15:51.918 --> 00:15:56.656
- Some would say over 10 million illegals
- 00:15:56.656 --> 00:15:59.793
- Now in the country as part of a systematic scheme.
- 00:15:59.793 --> 00:16:04.097
- I can't even blame the illegals entirely
- 00:16:04.097 --> 00:16:06.499
- Because essentially the biden
- 00:16:06.499 --> 00:16:07.901
- Administration was waving them in.
- 00:16:07.901 --> 00:16:10.303
- Something's got to be done about that.
- 00:16:10.303 --> 00:16:12.072
- Yeah, big, big issue.
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- More with dinesh d'souza after the break.
- 00:16:13.440 --> 00:16:15.208
- We're going global.
- 00:16:15.208 --> 00:16:16.609
- China, israel, iran.
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- Much more with dinesh d'souza,
- 00:16:18.611 --> 00:16:20.180
- Filmmaker, bestselling author and host,
- 00:16:20.180 --> 00:16:21.881
- Of course, of the dinesh d'souza podcast.
- 00:16:21.881 --> 00:16:24.017
- More with dinesh after the break. don't move.
- 00:16:24.017 --> 00:16:31.015
- More with dinesh after the break. don't move.
- 00:16:31.015 --> 00:16:34.426
- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- We're talking to our good friend, dinesh d'souza.
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- Dinesh, we talked a little bit
- 00:16:38.797 --> 00:16:39.798
- About the domestic front earlier, foreign policy,
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- And we've talked about president trump smashing paradigms.
- 00:16:43.569 --> 00:16:47.306
- What's your take so far on his approach to the world?
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- I think of tariffs.
- 00:16:50.275 --> 00:16:51.643
- You and i were discussing that off camera
- 00:16:51.643 --> 00:16:54.046
- And his approach generally a return of peace
- 00:16:54.046 --> 00:16:57.249
- Through strength and putting america first.
- 00:16:57.249 --> 00:16:59.451
- It seems
- 00:16:59.451 --> 00:17:01.753
- Trump is rethinking the
- 00:17:01.753 --> 00:17:04.456
- The kind of world order as it's existed,
- 00:17:04.456 --> 00:17:07.493
- And he is
- 00:17:07.493 --> 00:17:10.629
- For trump.
- 00:17:10.629 --> 00:17:11.830
- I think his domestic vision and his international vision
- 00:17:11.830 --> 00:17:15.100
- Go together. yeah.
- 00:17:15.100 --> 00:17:16.668
- So i think he recognizes that over the past
- 00:17:16.668 --> 00:17:20.305
- 30 years or so, we have had an economic system
- 00:17:20.305 --> 00:17:24.209
- That whatever its theoretical merits, has had the clear effect
- 00:17:24.209 --> 00:17:29.181
- Of taking our middle class
- 00:17:29.181 --> 00:17:32.451
- And splitting it, splitting it so that the
- 00:17:32.451 --> 00:17:36.255
- Thought of
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- It has moved into an affluent class
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- And has
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- Become part of a global elite that has benefited enormously
- 00:17:40.259 --> 00:17:43.195
- From free trade outsourcing technology.
- 00:17:43.195 --> 00:17:47.299
- But the bulk of the middle class,
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- I would say about two thirds of it
- 00:17:48.934 --> 00:17:50.769
- Has either stagnated or slumped down.
- 00:17:50.769 --> 00:17:54.106
- And these are people
- 00:17:54.106 --> 00:17:55.174
- Who have paid the price of this globalization.
- 00:17:55.174 --> 00:17:59.478
- And these are the trump voters, as it turns out.
- 00:17:59.478 --> 00:18:02.080
- So i think trump's idea is, listen,
- 00:18:02.080 --> 00:18:05.551
- I have to
- 00:18:05.551 --> 00:18:06.885
- Deliver for these people because what kind of american
- 00:18:06.885 --> 00:18:10.422
- Dream is it where only one segment of the population
- 00:18:10.422 --> 00:18:14.793
- Gets to cheer loudly and and, you know,
- 00:18:14.793 --> 00:18:19.198
- And break out the champagne every time they open up
- 00:18:19.198 --> 00:18:22.367
- Their returns
- 00:18:22.367 --> 00:18:23.769
- And everybody else is struggling, even on two incomes,
- 00:18:23.769 --> 00:18:27.406
- To make ends meet and watching the value
- 00:18:27.406 --> 00:18:30.008
- Of their of their money go down and down.
- 00:18:30.008 --> 00:18:33.879
- It's it's appalling, really.
- 00:18:33.879 --> 00:18:35.781
- And so i think a lot of the shrieking about this
- 00:18:35.781 --> 00:18:39.218
- Is coming from the old winners
- 00:18:39.218 --> 00:18:42.054
- Who don't recognize what trump is actually doing here.
- 00:18:42.054 --> 00:18:45.224
- Yeah, that's well said.
- 00:18:45.224 --> 00:18:46.425
- He is certainly ahead of the curve, as are you.
- 00:18:46.425 --> 00:18:49.094
- When you think of
- 00:18:49.094 --> 00:18:50.229
- Global threats right now threatening the united states,
- 00:18:50.229 --> 00:18:53.198
- China, iran, pretty much at the top of the list
- 00:18:53.198 --> 00:18:56.568
- At iranian axis.
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- And of course, the communist regime in beijing.
- 00:18:57.569 --> 00:19:01.206
- Yes, i think
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- That russia is not as big a threat
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- As those to china and iran for different reasons.
- 00:19:06.044 --> 00:19:10.148
- The effect of the united states policy in ukraine,
- 00:19:10.148 --> 00:19:15.420
- I think, regrettably, has been to push russia toward china.
- 00:19:15.420 --> 00:19:20.926
- It's the reverse of what nixon tried to do.
- 00:19:20.926 --> 00:19:23.295
- Nixon tried to leverage china against the soviet
- 00:19:23.295 --> 00:19:27.866
- Union or against the old russia, if you will.
- 00:19:27.866 --> 00:19:31.003
- And what we should be doing now, i think is somewhat
- 00:19:31.003 --> 00:19:34.606
- Of the opposite,
- 00:19:34.606 --> 00:19:35.874
- Which is to say, i mean, it's an old rule of politics, right?
- 00:19:35.874 --> 00:19:39.144
- In other words, if the united states,
- 00:19:39.144 --> 00:19:40.412
- For example, wants to protect its interests in asia, find
- 00:19:40.412 --> 00:19:43.815
- All the powerful countries in asia around china,
- 00:19:43.815 --> 00:19:46.985
- And make sure
- 00:19:46.985 --> 00:19:48.120
- That you have good alliances with them, japan, korea,
- 00:19:48.120 --> 00:19:51.323
- India, for example.
- 00:19:51.323 --> 00:19:54.026
- And so
- 00:19:54.026 --> 00:19:55.894
- But the united states has had, i think,
- 00:19:55.894 --> 00:19:57.896
- For the last couple of decades, a very ideological approach
- 00:19:57.896 --> 00:20:01.700
- To foreign policy, whereas the chinese have had a
- 00:20:01.700 --> 00:20:05.604
- You could call it a businessman or transact arsenal approach
- 00:20:05.604 --> 00:20:09.308
- With like what can what can i do for you?
- 00:20:09.308 --> 00:20:12.377
- And you have got to do something for me in return.
- 00:20:12.377 --> 00:20:14.946
- And the truth of it is,
- 00:20:14.946 --> 00:20:16.148
- Most of the world understands that language much better
- 00:20:16.148 --> 00:20:19.117
- Than they understand the wagging finger.
- 00:20:19.117 --> 00:20:21.820
- You need to be better at your democracy coming from a country
- 00:20:21.820 --> 00:20:25.524
- That in some ways is undermining democracy even at home.
- 00:20:25.524 --> 00:20:29.294
- And i think is the language that even
- 00:20:29.294 --> 00:20:30.929
- The chinese would understand.
- 00:20:30.929 --> 00:20:32.197
- Yeah, because the way the trump deals with the chinese is
- 00:20:32.197 --> 00:20:35.133
- Is not going to be you're my enemy in everything you're for.
- 00:20:35.133 --> 00:20:38.570
- I'm against.
- 00:20:38.570 --> 00:20:39.571
- It's we can find common ground.
- 00:20:39.571 --> 00:20:41.773
- But let's remember you look out for your interests
- 00:20:41.773 --> 00:20:44.743
- And i'll be looking out for ours and we deal with each other
- 00:20:44.743 --> 00:20:48.313
- On that basis. what can you offer me?
- 00:20:48.313 --> 00:20:51.016
- Hey, last question.
- 00:20:51.016 --> 00:20:52.284
- Are you optimistic about what you see in america right now?
- 00:20:52.284 --> 00:20:55.687
- Do you think we're heading in the right direction?
- 00:20:55.687 --> 00:20:57.789
- A lot of work to be done.
- 00:20:57.789 --> 00:20:58.790
- Of course, it's not going to be easy.
- 00:20:58.790 --> 00:21:00.392
- But are you generally saying,
- 00:21:00.392 --> 00:21:02.094
- Okay, this thing's heading now back in the right direction
- 00:21:02.094 --> 00:21:05.197
- Now that president trump's back in office.
- 00:21:05.197 --> 00:21:07.132
- The right direction, to be sure,
- 00:21:07.132 --> 00:21:08.734
- When the election occurred, my initial feeling
- 00:21:08.734 --> 00:21:12.504
- Was not even exhilaration, but almost relief.
- 00:21:12.504 --> 00:21:16.408
- It was that we we were careening toward the precipice
- 00:21:16.408 --> 00:21:20.078
- And we averted it.
- 00:21:20.078 --> 00:21:21.813
- Right.
- 00:21:21.813 --> 00:21:22.614
- It's almost like i almost thought
- 00:21:22.614 --> 00:21:23.815
- The country had, like, been through an exorcism, you know?
- 00:21:23.815 --> 00:21:27.052
- But what i didn't anticipate was this kind
- 00:21:27.052 --> 00:21:31.289
- Of trump blitzkrieg, which i think has been
- 00:21:31.289 --> 00:21:35.794
- At a more rapid pace, very effective.
- 00:21:35.794 --> 00:21:38.964
- Trump is, of course, a world class troller of the left.
- 00:21:38.964 --> 00:21:43.435
- And so it's been exhilarating and entertaining
- 00:21:43.435 --> 00:21:46.938
- And fun to watch.
- 00:21:46.938 --> 00:21:48.006
- I think there's a long way
- 00:21:48.006 --> 00:21:49.441
- To go to put the country back on track,
- 00:21:49.441 --> 00:21:51.343
- But at least i think we are on the right track.
- 00:21:51.343 --> 00:21:53.779
- Yeah, and donald trump is a man with a sense of urgency.
- 00:21:53.779 --> 00:21:57.215
- I think he knows the severity, the urgency.
- 00:21:57.215 --> 00:21:59.618
- He's got four years to do it. so it's a breakneck pace.
- 00:21:59.618 --> 00:22:02.487
- Amazing to see.
- 00:22:02.487 --> 00:22:03.522
- The next great job is always my friend. hey.
- 00:22:03.522 --> 00:22:05.490
- Follow dinesh on x across social media.
- 00:22:05.490 --> 00:22:08.727
- Check out his great films and his books.
- 00:22:08.727 --> 00:22:10.562
- Dinesh, thanks again, my friend.
- 00:22:10.562 --> 00:22:11.830
- God bless. we'll see you again soon.
- 00:22:11.830 --> 00:22:13.432
- And coming up after the break, my final
- 00:22:13.432 --> 00:22:15.500
- Thoughts on making america great again.
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- That's next. stick around.
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- That's next. stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck
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- Tonight, folks, as we wrap up here,
- 00:22:31.619 --> 00:22:32.921
- That was a great breakdown on the state of play in america
- 00:22:32.921 --> 00:22:35.657
- And beyond from our good friend dinesh d'souza.
- 00:22:35.657 --> 00:22:37.725
- But i love the opening monologue as well.
- 00:22:37.725 --> 00:22:39.461
- When i laid out this incredible archeological discovery
- 00:22:39.461 --> 00:22:42.230
- Beneath the church of the holy sepulcher
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- In jerusalem
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- With all of these incredible
- 00:22:44.632 --> 00:22:46.234
- Bible archeology finds, i think, of two verses
- 00:22:46.234 --> 00:22:49.003
- Off the bat in particular, psalm 85, verse 11 faithfulness
- 00:22:49.003 --> 00:22:53.007
- Springs from the earth and righteousness
- 00:22:53.007 --> 00:22:55.844
- Looks down from heaven and luke, chapter 19, verse 40
- 00:22:55.844 --> 00:22:59.047
- I tell you, jesus said,
- 00:22:59.047 --> 00:23:00.715
- If they keep quiet, the stones will cry out.
- 00:23:00.715 --> 00:23:03.918
- The stones are quite literally crying out right now.
- 00:23:03.918 --> 00:23:07.188
- And you'll see more of that in jerusalem tomorrow night.
- 00:23:07.188 --> 00:23:09.557
- We're on the ground there with our good friend
- 00:23:09.557 --> 00:23:11.292
- Danny the digger harmon, to show you
- 00:23:11.292 --> 00:23:12.727
- Some incredible archeological finds where jesus walk.
- 00:23:12.727 --> 00:23:16.598
- You won't want to miss that until then.
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- God bless you. we'll see you soon.
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