Stakelbeck Tonight

Erick Stakelbeck: April 23, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

April 23, 2025 | S25:E423

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 23, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | April 23, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erik stackelberg.
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And you can tell a lot about someone by what they prioritize.
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What do they put first?
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What is at the very top of their agenda?
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Now this goes not only for individuals,
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But also for movements.
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Which brings me
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To the top priorities today for the american left.
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Democrats, of course, lost big time back in november
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Because their priorities were completely rejected
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By the american people.
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Priorities that were radical, woke, and frankly, insane.
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Democrats prioritized men playing in women's sports.
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They celebrated the mutilation of little kids
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With so-called gender change surgeries,
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And they gleefully threw open our southern border
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To let in millions upon millions of illegal aliens,
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Some of whom went on to commit horrific crimes.
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But now that republicans control the presidency
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And both houses of congress, you'd think maybe dems
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Would reconsider the error of their ways
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And move on from the far left fringe.
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Maybe move more to where the vast
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Majority of the american
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People are on issues like gender, the border, and crime.
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A return to sanity.
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But that's not what happened.
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They're in full trump derangement mode,
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And they're doubling down on the madness
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That earned them a resounding defeat back in november.
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Exhibit a democrat, senator chris van hollen.
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He was an el salvador last week to champion
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The cause of kilmore.
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Al briggle garcia, an illegal immigrant who, according to u.s.
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Courts and law enforcement, is a member of the violent ms13
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Gang, a gang which president trump recently classified
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As a foreign terrorist organization.
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Folks, let that sink in.
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Not only did van hollen travel to schmooze with garcia,
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But four house democrats are also now
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In el salvador, working with garcia's family lawyer.
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They're fighting for a man whose own wife
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Has gone on record accusing him of domestic abuse,
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And even had
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A restraining order against him as recently as 2021.
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Nice guy.
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So progressive democrats are globetrotting
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To bring an accused violent gang member, a terrorist and wife
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Beater who was living in maryland
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Illegally back to the united states.
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Folks, that's where we're at.
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Here's more from president trump.
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In 2019, garcia was issued a deportation order.
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Two separate judges affirm garcia was a member of ms.
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13, which is a gang that may be even worse and trendier.
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Rockwell.
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Two separate judges affirmed.
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Affirmed.
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Garcia was a member of mr.
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J. when garcia was originally arrested,
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He was wearing a sweatshirt with rolls of money pouring out
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An msi and an ms13 gang symbol.
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What senator van hollen and his liberal
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Colleagues are doing in el salvador is in compassion.
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It's madness.
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By the way, where was the outrage
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From these democrat officials when rachel moran lake and riley
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Joslin, number eight, and far too many other americans
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Were murdered by illegal aliens in recent years,
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When elected officials prioritize violent illegal
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Alien gang members over the safety of americans.
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Something is deeply broken, both in our system and in them.
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Coming up, we're joined by the legendary host
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Of the marc levine show and life, liberty and levine
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On fox news, the one and only mark levine.
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And he has a few words for not only senator van hollen,
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But for the iranian regime.
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China and the anti-semites running amok on america's
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College campuses.
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And it all starts now.
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As rogue judges run wild, enemy regimes
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Like iran and china grow bolder and radical leftist attempt
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To undermine president trump.
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The one and only mark levin is sounding the alarm.
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He's a constitutional warrior, bestselling author, and,
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Of course, host of both the mark levin show,
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One of the very top
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Nationally syndicated radio programs in america.
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And life, liberty and levin, seen every saturday and sunday
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Night on fox news, the man they call the great one
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Joins us now. mark, great to see you again, my friend.
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And we've got a lot to cover.
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But let's start with this strange
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Case of more abrego, garcia and mark.
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President trump
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Rightfully deported this illegal alien ms13 gang member member
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Whose own wife accused him of spousal abuse.
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And yet
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We've got a gaggle of democrats heading down to el salvador
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To bring him back.
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Is it possible that he could actually return
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To the united states, mark?
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Or is he hopefully gone for good?
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Now, this is so bizarre, eric, and thank you for having me.
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It's been a while and we appreciate you very much.
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This is really troubling to me.
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You have a judge in maryland, as i speak, who is now going
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To conduct discovery
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And depositions
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Against the lawyers who are representing we,
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The people who took steps to remove this reprobate
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From the united states.
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Now, let's understand a few facts here.
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They didn't have due process, he said.
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Due process repeatedly.
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He was in front of an administrative immigration judge
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Who said it's more likely than not.
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He is a member of ms13, and obviously he's here illegally.
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That's not even a discussion. that's not even a debate.
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He appeals it to the board of immigration review.
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That board concludes that the lower administrative
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Judge is correct, and they refuse to overrule
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That judge, as represented, i think, by the aclu.
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Now, that said, these judges
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Didn't even know that he was a wife beater, right.
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And yet none of this matters.
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He's here illegally.
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And the democrats have made this guy their cause celeb.
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So my attitude about this, eric, is, do it.
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He should cause celeb.
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That's your hero.
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The american people should know that the democrat party
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Has rallied around
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An ms13 member who is a wife beater,
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As you mentioned in your correct,
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Who is here illegally, who's been here
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Illegally for a very, very long time.
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There's even some questions that have been raised
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In tennessee about his car was stopped once, for
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He had seven individuals in the car, all of whom,
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Didn't speak english, none of whom had identification.
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And the democrats in the media want you to think that, oh,
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This poor marylander, he's got, he's got a wife, he's got kids.
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And look what hitler's trying to do to him.
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Now, this guy is an easy case, as are,
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Quite frankly, all these other cases.
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Whether it's this guy, carlisle,
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Columbia university and his connections to,
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This organization
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That he's leading, that is a front group for hamas.
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This guy, has become a cause celeb to
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For the first amendment. what are they talking about?
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You know, if you're promoting terrorism
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And a terrorist organization.
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And, by the way, the overthrow of the united states of america,
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You were here on a student visa.
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He's 34 years old.
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He wants to be a
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Graduate student, i guess, he's got a green card.
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I think it's important
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To go back to basics, eric, which is this.
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You don't have a right to be in america.
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We have an immigration system where we want people
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From around the world to come
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Legally who are going to contribute
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To america and not try to overthrow it.
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And you can take your hitler stuff and all the rest of it
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And go back to your paradise that you called gaza.
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And that's the end of that.
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Mark.
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Well said. as always.
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Hey, but what can we do about these rogue runaway judges
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At the district level?
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Even, mark,
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We're trying to block president trump at every turn
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In terms of deporting people like a khaleel and like a braco
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Garcia.
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Even the supreme court now making things more difficult
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For president trump to get his administration
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To get his agenda through
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And make america safe again and sane again.
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First, we need to accept the fact.
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I don't mean accept it forever,
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But accept what's going on today. this is judicial tyranny.
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There's absolutely no question about it.
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These federal district judges,
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Most of whom are democrats, appointed by democrats,
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Schumer said 235 of them were progressives
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That they purposely put on the court
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In order to stop and support trump.
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This is an attack on we the people, the electoral process.
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It is lawfare 2.0 where they were trying
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To stop trump and president trump bankrupt trump
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At the local, state and federal levels
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For democrat prosecutors.
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Now they're just trying to thwart his agenda,
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Which means our agenda since he won by a landslide.
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He's being told a thousand different things.
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He can't do that any manager,
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Any executive would need to do,
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Especially a president of the united states.
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The courts don't have this power.
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Now, what can we do? take it back.
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And we need the republicans in congress.
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They started with the house.
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When it comes
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To these national injunctions,
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Which are utterly unconstitutional.
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They're federal district judges.
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They're in a district.
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That's where they rule parties in a district.
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This whole national injunction staff started in the 60s,
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But really became,
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Hyper hyper these, these,
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These, these temporary restraining
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Orders and national injunctions
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And really, in the last 5 or 6 years,
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As the court has gotten more and more activists.
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But let me just be clear what's going on here.
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Congress can stop.
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Congress can eliminate these judgeships.
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They ought to eliminate some of them.
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They ought to attach it to the spending bills to defund them.
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So the senate can't use the filibuster
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So that they can do it.
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And they must do impeachment, won't work
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Because you need a supermajority in the senate.
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Good luck with that. so let's not waste our time.
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Let's just abolish some of these judges.
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Yeah. amen.
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Well said as always, mark.
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And more with the great one folks,
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After the break, we're talking iran.
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Mark mentioned hamas.
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What about their masters in tehran?
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Their nuclear program is ongoing.
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Nuclear talks more with the one and only mark levin
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After the break. stick around.
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After the break. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck
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Tonight
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We are talking to the great one, mark levin,
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Host of the mark levin
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Show every weekday, and life, liberty and levin
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Every saturday and sunday night on fox news.
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Also check him out on levin tv on the blaze.
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And of course, follow him on x.
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Mark, you've been talking a lot
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On x recently, and for good reason
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About the iranian nuclear threat, in particular,
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The nuclear talks ongoing now between the trump administration
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And the iranian regime
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And this growing, i guess you would say,
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Mark, an isolationist wing.
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That's pretty much saying, look, let iran get the bomb.
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No war in iran, by the way.
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No one is suggesting a war in iran.
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But some of us are saying this may be a good time
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For surgical strikes against that iran nuclear program
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For every american mark,
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Why is the iranian nuclear program
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Not just a threat for israel or for the region,
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But for the united states as well?
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You know, eric,
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We were hit on nine over 11 who hit us?
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The islamic terrorists, the nazis, modern day nazis
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Hit us for the 80th anniversary
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Of the liberation of dachau.
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Auschwitz.
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My wife and her mother right now are in poland
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As we speak, at auschwitz.
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And i want people to think about the modern day
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Nazis and what they would do with an atomic weapon
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And what they would do with a biological and chemical weapon.
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What happened on 911?
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If they had had access to an atomic warhead or something
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Worse, they would have used it and they would have blown
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New york city off the face of the earth.
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That's how serious this is.
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They're trying to build and they are building
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Intercontinental ballistic missiles.
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The title should tell people
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What that means. that's not intended
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For the region that's intended for us.
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And even more than that,
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They can give this technology to other terrorist regimes.
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They can give the terrorist groups.
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And so this will become utterly and completely unmanageable.
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And i cannot understand, and i cannot imagine us
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Allowing this regime
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That is funding all the terrorism
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In the middle east, that is funding,
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At least in part, the anti-semitism in our own country
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That has vowed over and over again,
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Death to america, death to america from its highest
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Level to its phony parliament to its streets.
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Why don't we believe what they're saying?
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We see what they're doing. they are cheating.
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They are lying on every deal they've ever made.
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They're terrorists.
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You can sign as many deals as you want with it.
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Look at this.
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We have a deal. peace in our time.
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No we don't.
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That man right there is a is is an evil, barbaric.
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And he's a throwback. he's a primitive.
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And they believe the next life is the better life.
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And they believe their ideology.
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It's not marxists and fascists.
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Which is worse enough, bad enough.
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They don't believe in mutually assured destruction.
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They just believe in destruction.
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This is a death cult.
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That's their ideology.
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And they tell you about it.
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So the idea that they would get a nuclear weapon,
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Then we have people in this country
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Who claim to be conservatives or republicans
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Who say that their foreign policy is a realist
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Foreign policy, that they're tired of forever wars.
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So are mine.
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So is everybody.
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A nuclear weapon isn't a forever war.
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When the enola gay dropped the atomic bomb on hiroshima,
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It took 45 seconds to blow that city off the face of the earth
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And 60,000 people with it.
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And we should have done what we needed to do
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Then that war, given the battle of oak.
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And now on how many casualties we had.
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Yeah, that's not my point.
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My point is, can you imagine a death cult, a terrorist regime
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That says death to america with these kinds of weapons?
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I cannot.
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So the isolationist, the pacifist, the appeasers,
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The world has dealt with them before.
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The fact is reality.
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We, this generation, is being told by a death cult
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That they want to eliminate the united states, that they're
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Within effectively weeks of having nuclear weapons
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And for our generation
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To impose on our children and grandchildren and generations
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Yet born.
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This kind of a threat is a sin.
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There is no way we can tolerate this, no doubt.
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And the iranian regime refers to israel as the little satan.
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Mark, as you said,
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America is the great satan and the ultimate prize for them.
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About a minute left mark before the break.
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Then we will bring you right back.
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Pretty strong leadership, of course, in president trump,
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Bibi netanyahu right now, are you confident
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They'll do the right thing going forward,
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Regardless of the outside noise?
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I am confident, but if i'm wrong,
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The israelis will have to go along
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Because the israelis cannot tolerate a nuclear iran.
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It just they just cannot.
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If they have to go alone, they will go alone.
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But i am very confident in donald trump.
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I first met him in 2015 at a tea party rally on capitol hill.
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And that rally
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Was against the iranians and the iranian weapons,
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And he attended it as a,
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Private citizen in 2015.
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And i met him there, and he told that crowd, no nukes for iran.
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He has said it ever since.
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I believe him.
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He's a very, very
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Well he's a wonderful man and he's and he's a man
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Who believes in his promises.
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And i believe that this is one
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That he's going to keep for sure, 100%. amen.
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Well said.
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Mark moore with mark levine after the break.
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What about the rise of anti-semitism,
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In particular on college campuses?
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And what about china and tariffs?
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More with mark levine after the break, don█t move.
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More with mark levine after the break, don█t move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck
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Tonight we are talking to the great one, mark levine.
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And mark, i buried the lead.
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Congratulations are in order.
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You just appointed to president trump's
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Homeland security advisory council.
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Tell us more about that role, mark. number one.
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And number two, i would think perhaps some of that relates
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To fighting back against the madness, the anti-semitism
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That's reared its head in america's
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Streets and on its college campuses.
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Well, i think it's an independent council.
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They'll be several of us on this council
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President has blown out all the left
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Wing kooks of this council that biden had put on there.
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And he has asked us to to help contribute
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To setting advice and policy with the secretary.
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Kristi noem was fantastic in him
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On securing the border, and that the department
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Takes on a lot of responsibilities,
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From the secret service to tsa to immigration
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And to a hundred other things.
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And so,
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I'm assuming it was my background as chief of staff
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To attorney general meese
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And my hard line on most of these issues.
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And when the president asks you to do something, you do it.
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And this president, it is an enormous honor for me
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To, to have been chosen.
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Yeah. you're the right man for the job, mark. no doubt.
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And and part of that look is just this rise in anti-semitism.
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And, mark, we've seen it since october 7th.
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You would think after october
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7th, people would get behind israel
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And the jewish people after the atrocity of october 7th.
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Yet in many cases, we've seen the opposite,
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In particular on american college
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Campuses. president trump
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Now pulling funding for the likes of harvard.
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What more can be done, mark, to get these universities,
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Get these colleges in line and put an end
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To this evil nonsense.
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President has
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Been nothing short of fabulous in this regard.
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It's a special unit set up in the civil
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Rights division
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Of the justice department, a special unit set up
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At the department
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Of education and their civil rights activities there.
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They're all coordinating with dhs.
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The attorney generals involved, the secretary, dhs is involved.
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The secretary of education is involved.
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He's looking at everything.
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He is defunding these colleges,
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Of federal grants and federal monies.
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He is, looking at the tax status because they have these
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Multi-billion dollar endowments that are tax free
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And they keep earning interest.
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And he said, there's no reason to give tax exempt status
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To these colleges or universities,
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Particularly the ivy leagues, but not exclusively,
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That are doing little
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And certainly not enough to fight anti-semitism
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In their faculty and their administration
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And among their student body.
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Not enough to
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Protect the jewish students there. and,
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This, this sort of activity that's going on in these college
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Campuses is funded in part by qatar or communist china,
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Iran, hamas.
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And they're looking at those funding streams as well.
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And, so this is very, very important
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What they're doing.
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Again,
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They're facing in some cases, these federal judges
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Like the case of carlisle and so forth.
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Yeah, these are not first amendment issues.
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We're not talking about rosa parks here.
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We're not talking about anything of the kind.
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These are people who are vile, who are violent.
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If they're not personally violent,
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They're pushing these riotous protests.
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They're coordinating with, foreign governments.
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They're coordinating with outside groups
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That have terrorist links, if not terrorist, per se.
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And they're going to overthrow
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This country if we don't put an end to it.
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Because there was a great report put out recently
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That talked about the fact that
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Typically these organizations
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Are spending as much time talking about
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Overthrowing the quote unquote, american empire.
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Yeah.
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And attacking the police like the nypd and other cops
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As they are talking about israel.
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Yeah.
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And they're really not even talking about israel
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Or promoting hamas.
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So this is an enemy within their well funded,
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They are using our constitution against our constitution.
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These radical left wing judges are hurting us.
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And what you're seeing on these campuses,
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Eric, is really a fusion between the marxist,
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The marxist faculty and so forth.
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And the islamists. yeah.
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And that's what's happening on these campuses right now.
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I think the administration
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Is doing a tremendous amount to deal with this.
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Yeah, it's really an unholy alliance, mark,
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As you said, radical left, radical islamist.
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And president trump essentially is not just defending america.
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Mark.
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He's a defender of judeo christian western civilization.
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Along those lines, last question about a minute
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Left, mark, you mentioned communist china.
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We've got a so-called trade war right now.
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The left wing media is in a tizzy over.
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You feel good going forward
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About the stance, the strong stance
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President trump has taken against the chinese communists.
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The chinese communists are our enemy.
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They're building military
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One day to try and choke us off economically navigable waters.
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Air power.
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They're working with the russians
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On military bases and the arctic circle.
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And, they're working on weapons, hypersonic missiles
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And other types of weapons and nuclear submarines.
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They have,
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For a while, controlled both sides of the panama canal.
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They have bases in west africa.
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They aim at our coast.
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Also in the middle of the pacific.
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So they are an enemy?
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They're making it clear they're in enemy.
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This battle, economic battle was just a matter of time.
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And i think what the president is doing
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Is dealing with it right now.
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And nation and worldwide.
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I think he is a free market, ope
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We put these tariffs in place.
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Now let's negotiate.
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We'll lower ours. your lower yours.
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So we have access to all our markets.
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We have access to all of your markets.
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And i think in the end, believe it or not eric,
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He's going to be closer to milton friedman
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Than any president in modern american history.
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Yeah. mark. well said.
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At the end of the day,
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These seem like just common sense policies.
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But it takes donald trump, a man like him, to come in
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And push him through.
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Mark, great job as always, my friend.
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Folks, check him out live in tv, the mark levin show, life,
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Liberty and levin, and of course all of his bestselling books.
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And on x the great one, mark levin.
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Mark, always great to see my friend.
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God bless. mark. keep up the great work.
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Coming up.
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My final thoughts on what mark and i
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Were just talking about making america sane 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
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With a great conversation with the great one, mark levin.
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The truth is, when judges twist the law, when left wing leaders
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Ignore our constitution, and when criminals are protected
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More than us citizens, a nation begins to unravel.
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But thankfully, we're not without hope.
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Number one, we've got a new administration in office.
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And number two, we've got god almighty.
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Isaiah chapter one, verse 26 says,
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I will restore your judges as at the first and your counselors
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As at the beginning.
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Afterward you will be called the city of righteousness,
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The faithful city. that's my prayer for america.
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That's god's promise.
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Justice can be restored, righteousness can return.
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But it requires courage from leaders, from churches,
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And from everyday americans who refuse to back down
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Through the madness.
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Speaking of which,
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Tomorrow night, bridget
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Gabrielle, a bold voice against radical islam, is with us
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And a huge advocate for israel.
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Bishop robert stearns, founder of eagles wings.
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You won't want to miss it until then.
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God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: April 23, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

April 23, 2025 | S25:E423

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