Stakelbeck Tonight

Erick Stakelbeck: August 12, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

August 12, 2025 | S25 E812 | 25:5

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: August 12, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | August 12, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck, and we are in the midst right now
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Of one of the most stunning turnarounds in american history.
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Folks, think about where we were as a nation at this time
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Last year.
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Hundreds of thousands of people
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Were swarming over our southern border every month.
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We lived into our country by the biden administration.
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Now, wave is the operative word here
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Because many of
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These illegal aliens engaged in a brutal crime wave
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That left young americans
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Like rachel moran, lake and riley and 12 year old jocelyn
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Gray dead while criminal gangs roamed our streets.
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Child mutilates roamed our hospitals.
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There's no other way
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To describe the utter madness that occurred during the biden
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Years, as young kids were being surgically altered,
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Mutilated to supposedly change their gender.
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This is pure demonic evil.
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So is separating americans by race or sexual preference
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Favoring one group over another under biden?
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That's exactly what diversity, equity and inclusion or
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Dei programs did in workplaces across america.
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It was un-american.
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Speaking of which, if you turn uphold american values at home,
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There's a good chance you won't do it abroad either.
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One year ago,
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The united states was seen by our adversaries as a paper
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Tiger with a declining military overrun by wokeness.
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By early november 2024, america stood on the brink of oblivion.
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If we kept going the way we were going as a nation,
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Turning away from the very god who made us great
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In the first place,
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Let's just say it would not have ended well.
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A radical left wing harris wallace administration
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Would have only accelerated our national decline.
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I say this not to dwell on the past, but to remind you
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Of the incredible things that are happening right now
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In the present.
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Here in the united states, under donald trump,
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In just seven months,
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We've seen massive policy reversals that are shaking
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Washington, d.c., and rattling america's enemies.
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That biden border invasion that i mentioned earlier done
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Illegal border crossings were down 93% in
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July compared to the same time last year.
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Our southern border
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Has never been more secure than it is right now.
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And those child sex changes?
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A new trump administration rule will cut off all medicare
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And medicaid funds to any hospital
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That performs these destructive procedures on minors.
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Not just for those procedures,
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But for every service they build
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To the federal government. now,
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Most hospitals can't survive without that federal money.
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And nearly two dozen have already backed off
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From mutilating children.
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In the meantime, die is dead, and we're seeing
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A cultural shift away from woke madness
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And back towards patriotism and national pride.
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Trump is also showing moral clarity overseas.
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He says hamas cannot remain in gaza.
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Period.
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No lecturing of israel.
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No phony moral equivalence.
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Just the truth.
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Terrorists who rape and murder civilians
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Cannot be allowed to stay in power.
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Benjamin netanyahu's plan is to eradicate hamas.
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And trump is in constantly badgering
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Israel to show restraint, like biden did.
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Instead, he's standing with israel until the job is done.
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Once again, peace through strength and leverage work.
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And trump is using both on the foreign policy
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Front to great effect.
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He just pulled off a stunning geopolitical win
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By flipping armenia, a loyal russian ally,
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For decades, into america's orbit.
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Armenia signed a u.s.
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Brokered peace deal with azerbaijan
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At the white house last week, ending decades of war
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And attracting american investment.
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Vladimir putin is now in full damage control
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Mode in the run
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Up to his meeting with president trump in alaska this friday.
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Folks, instead of seeing american decline,
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You are witnessing an america in restoration
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That includes a restoration of faith.
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Generation z is coming to the lord in large numbers,
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And there's even a white house faith office.
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So be encouraged because god is moving here
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In america at the highest levels.
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We're talking about all of this and much more.
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With one of the sharpest
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Geopolitical minds in america today, doctor rod martin.
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And it all starts now.
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Fox business calls him a tech guru.
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Britain's guardian describes him as a philosopher, capitalist
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And the blaze tv has dubbed him
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One of america's leading public intellectuals.
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Doctor rod
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Martin is a visionary thinker and conservative leader
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And a must follow on x, where every day
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He's breaking down the seismic geopolitical shifts
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We're seeing under president trump.
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Doctor martin is also the founder
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And ceo of martin capital, and he joins us now.
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Rod, great to see you.
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And i think a great place to
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Start is with making america safe again.
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President trump announced yesterday
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That he will take control the federal government
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Will take control of the d.c.
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Metropolitan police force to crack down on the crime
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Wave plaguing our nation's capital.
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Ron, how big is this?
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It's one thing to take control in d.c., which is much needed.
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But what about chicago, la, philly,
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New york city, other crime ridden cities run by democrats?
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Could we see this new policy by president trump spread?
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Well, obviously, in
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The district of columbia,
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You have constitutional authority
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For the federal government to run the place.
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They passed the home rule act a number of years ago,
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And so the city largely runs itself.
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But that is necessary.
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The federal government
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Has every right to run every aspect of the district.
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If it chooses to.
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And the president doesn't have that power unfettered,
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But he does in combination with congress.
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Crime rates.
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Absolutely unbelievable.
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It's just beyond excessive.
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And the people who should be the most concerned about that,
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Or the people who purport to stand
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For the residents of the city, the democrat government
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In washington should care more about the crime rate.
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It affects their people more than anybody.
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And yet they let it grow.
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Year after year.
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Now, beyond d.c., obviously, the president doesn't have
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As great a powers, but he does have the ability
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To surge federal law enforcement into some of those places
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And really make a meaningful difference.
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And i think the net net on this
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Is that the democrats get a real black eye
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For their complete failure to run every major
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Metropolitan area in this country.
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They are
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Losing a lot of minority votes throughout the united states.
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This could push it further.
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Yeah.
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Rod, what are some of the reasons
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These democrats cities are obviously crime ridden messes?
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What are some of the reasons?
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What are some of their governing policies
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That are such spectacular
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Failures in places like new york and la and philadelphia?
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Well, we used to have complicated discussions
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About that, but anymore it's just ridiculous.
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These days, you've got cities that have eliminated cash bail,
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So people get arrested and they're immediately out
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And offending again.
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You have in california, they actually made
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It illegal for anybody to prosecute a shoplifter
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Who took less than, i think it was $950 of stuff.
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Democrats have lost their minds on this stuff.
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Their defund the police movement took real root
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Within their own mindsets, if not in all of the country,
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And they simply can't be trusted to keep americans safe.
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You know, it's insane.
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And in the cities, good
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Is called evil, and evil is called good.
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And many democrat run american cities, sadly.
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Hey, president trump said he expects to get d.c.
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Under control.
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Pretty quickly.
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He compared it to the incredible
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Turnaround at our southern border.
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I'll talk more about that.
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Just incredible what's been accomplished there.
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And yet, democrats are saying, and beto o'rourke, remember him
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Rearing his head again this week,
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Saying that they want to basically mass legalize
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The millions of illegal aliens that came to the united states
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Under joe biden.
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Why is that so dangerous?
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And look at a time when we've
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Never seen a more secure southern border.
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That's great.
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But there are still ulterior motives among the left.
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Well, there's no guarantee that we win the next election
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Or the election after that.
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So we're dealing
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With an ideology that literally wants to remake america.
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And and they're doing it in multiple dimensions.
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So you have multiple municipalities, such as san
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Francisco, that have legalized illegal alien voting.
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And they say, well, that's only for our city elections.
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Well, no it's not.
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They're in the ballot box.
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They're going to vote on the other races, obviously.
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And california has made it illegal to check a voter i.d..
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So, you know,
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If these people are registered
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To vote,
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Why wouldn't they come vote? and who's
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Going to even tell them that they're not supposed to?
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Because california will not.
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But you see this you see this in other dimensions as well.
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You know, first of all, the biden administration
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Just dropping the court date for 700,000 people
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Who are in the country illegally.
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They can't get deported if they never actually
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Are ruled to be illegal.
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And so, you know, biden just made sure that they wouldn't be.
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We have all of these other backdoor amnesty policies.
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And worse than that, just the surge of illegals
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Into states like california and new york for the purpose
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Of increasing their population count in the census,
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With the result
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That california, new york and other blue states
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Like illinois get more electoral votes
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And more house seats than they're entitled to.
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And it's just it's just wicked all around.
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It's utterly corrupt.
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Trump's taken a stab at stopping it.
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We'll see if he's successful.
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It truly is wicked.
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This is the appropriate word to use, rod
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And it is a massive turnaround, thank god.
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President trump in just seven months.
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But as you said it's going to be a long road here.
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A lot to clean up, needless to say.
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Speaking of president trump and the border,
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What about that border wall?
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Remember president trump's border wall?
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What's the latest there
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And what's the latest on child mutilation?
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That's the only way to call folks. it is child mutilation.
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Some good things happening there, some major reversals.
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We'll discuss with rod martin after the break.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back
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To stakelbeck tonight we're talking with doctor
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Rod martin, founder and ceo of martin capital.
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Folks, be sure to follow him on x.
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He has incredible geo
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Political breakdowns there every single day.
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And something you've been writing about,
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Rod is maybe a topic people haven't
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Thought about as of late.
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The border wall.
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We heard so much about it during president trump's first term.
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The biden administration pretty much
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Tried to kill the wall, but the wall is back, right?
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This is an amazing
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And encouraging story you've been writing about.
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Next, tell us more about it.
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Well, it's getting finished.
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And, you know, we've had some conservative critics
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Of the president in the first 60 days of his first term.
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He hasn't built the wall yet.
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It's like, well, you go
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Try to build a wall for 2000 miles in two months.
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I mean, that's just absurd.
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But he's getting it done.
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And as you know, joe biden actually auctioned off,
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You know,
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Huge, huge segments of the wall that were to be constructed.
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And and the trump administration
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Just reversed that and got that material back.
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So that's saving americans potentially billions of dollars.
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It really is a big deal.
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But in the meantime, they've done other
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Very positive things, such as federal
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Izing the roosevelt reservation, which is the
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Which is the very thin strip along the border from el paso
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To san diego that
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That was actually federalized under woodrow wilson.
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And they've turned that into a military base.
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And so if you cross over it, you're in danger of
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Of the military dealing with you in the manner that it would
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If you trespassed at fort bliss or somewhere.
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And, and they've just done countless things that have been
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Incredibly effective.
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Border crossings are down to an all time low.
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And we're just we're just stemming the problem.
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It's it's not a problem now.
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Now, will it be a problem in four years?
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Depends on who you vote for.
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But donald trump has shut the border,
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And now the issue is deporting the people who came
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For four years.
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Yeah. no doubt.
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And putting pressure on these cartels as well.
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It's just been such a stunning turnaround.
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But as you said, four years could be different.
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Rod, we have a golden opportunity here in america.
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We cannot squandered
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As americans as the body of christ as well.
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Hey, you mentioned the word wicked,
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During the first block before the commercial.
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And i think one of the most wicked strategies were policies
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Of the biden-harris administration
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Was the just elevation of child mutilation.
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These sex change surgeries for minors.
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Well, president trump is hitting back against that
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In a major way and holding hospitals accountable.
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You've written about this.
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Tell us more about that.
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These hospitals, all of a sudden,
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There's a lot more stakes here for them.
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And they're backing down on these child mutilations.
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Yeah.
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The president has been phenomenal on this.
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And you're exactly right to call it that.
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It is child mutilation.
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Whether it's chemical castration or physical
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Makes no difference.
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If i choose to go do something
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Like that, i'm an idiot and i deserve what i get.
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But i'm an adult and i get to choose that a child does not.
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And we're talking about very young children in many cases.
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We're talking about kids that, you know, today they might say,
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Maybe it's a little boy and he says, he's a little girl.
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Tomorrow he might say he's a fire truck or a dog.
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So we have to protect minors up to and including 17 year olds.
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Absolutely.
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But certainly seven year olds and seven month olds.
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And the president's doing that.
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This latest move to block federal funding
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To any hospital who participates in this barbarian is
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Is is just really welcome, really timely.
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We needed this a long time ago.
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I don't understand
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How this isn't common sense, and it tells you
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How unbelievably out of touch and far afield
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From where most americans are, the democrats have become.
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Yeah, it is a great evil, no doubt.
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But it seems that we're seeing a shift away from that.
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God willing, the gender madness obviously die out the window.
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Do you sense a cultural shift?
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President trump's only been back in office
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For about seven months, but you already sense
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A cultural shift back to sanity and away from the woke madness.
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There clearly is.
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But i would add to that that you get that with a new president
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Quite frequently, there was a
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Meaningful difference in the country after obama won.
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There was a
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Meaningful difference in the country after reagan won,
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You know, and it was just palpable.
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And people could feel it. and they talked about it.
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In elections matter more than we realize.
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Our leaders shape our culture to a degree
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That is frequently ignored or just not realized.
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And christians in particular are prone to believing that
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Politics is downstream of culture.
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Well, the entire marxist
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Idea of politics is that it defines culture.
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So we're in this constant tension
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Between their attempt to dominate every manner
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Of existence and every aspect of life politically, versus
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What is clearly a christian view that that it shouldn't be that
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Way, that politics shouldn't define absolutely everything.
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Nevertheless, we live in a world where it does define much,
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And we have to take it seriously. yeah, for the left,
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It is literally life or death, no doubt.
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And for us is becoming.
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That is way as well as they assault
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Our values of faith, family and freedom.
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The judeo-christian values have built this nation
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Speaking of which,
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After the break, look, we're talking about positive changes
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Here at home.
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What about abroad?
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Is america the leader of the free world once again?
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What about what's happening in russia? in israel?
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Much more with doctor martin after the break.
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A great geopolitical breakdown next.
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A great geopolitical breakdown next.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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We're talking to doctor rod martin,
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Founder and ceo of martin capital.
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Be sure to follow him on x where he's giving great breakdowns
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Of breaking news around the world, including look,
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A pretty interesting agreement, needless to say, struck
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Last friday at the white house between armenia and azerbaijan.
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Now, a lot of people watching might say,
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I can identify those two countries on the map.
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And yet, rob,
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This was a very important and historic peace
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Treaty brokered by president trump.
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Tell us why it was great not just for armenia
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And azerbaijan, but for the united states.
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It's a really big deal and it's part of a much bigger picture.
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You know,
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We have been told since donald trump first ran
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That he was going to destroy nato and he's going to
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Be an isolationist, and he's going to pull us
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Out of the world.
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And, you know,
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The world will have to adjust to a world without america.
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And all of that is ludicrous.
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That's never been his purpose.
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His purpose has always been to demand that
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Our allies actually be partners and not depend on us,
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That they
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Actually build real militaries and don't just freeload on us
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And and he is very assertive around the world.
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He just
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Doesn't want to commit troops in the way that the neocons did
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For decades.
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He's got a very reaganesque
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Mindset on this, and we see that very clearly in armenia.
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Armenia has been a russian satellite
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For all practical purposes
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Since the fall of the soviet union,
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When it actually was part of the ussr.
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And it's sitting there
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Right there in the neighborhood
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With georgia, with turkey, and with azerbaijan.
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They're sitting on a lot of oil.
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They're in a crucial transport corridor
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That could get you around iran and russia.
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And that's exactly what the president did.
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He went and said, look,
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You guys have been fighting for most of 40 years.
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Let's end all that.
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Let's all be friends.
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We're going to create a transport
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Corridor from baku and to turkey and to the black sea.
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And we're going to make you all rich,
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And america is going to come in and fast.
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And so it's very much part of this whole trump doctrine
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We saw enunciated so well in the middle east
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Trip commerce, not chaos.
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And in the process, he's also detaching a key russian
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Ally in an area that is extremely important militarily
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To russia.
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That sets up the alaska meeting.
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Putin knows that trump's going to go after things
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That putin can't afford to lose.
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He needs to make peace.
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Yeah, putin is kind of limping into that meeting
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Because of peace through strength.
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It really works, right.
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As you mentioned. and so does leverage.
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And not being afraid to use it.
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Hey, speaking of the middle east, which you just mentioned,
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Israel, gaza, president trump backing
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Bibi netanyahu saying, look, finish the job.
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You can't leave hamas, nazis in control in gaza.
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What's your take on these narratives?
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We've been hearing about israel, supposedly forcing
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Starvation upon the innocent people of gaza, etc..
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What's been your take on that?
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And president trump's posture with gaza?
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No, it's just absurd.
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I mean, i've heard british leaders talking about,
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You know, how israel isn't sending enough aid into gaza.
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Well, first of all, if they weren't,
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Everybody in gaza would be dead by now.
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This war has been going on for a while.
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They're clearly eating.
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But second, when did britain send food aid to nazi germany?
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I mean, that never happened.
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That's absurd.
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So, you know, the standards that israel is held to
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Are simply ahistorical, nonsensical.
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They are in a war.
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They didn't start the war.
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They did everything they could to avoid the war.
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And now they're in a war
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And they're going to fight it to conclusion.
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And the bottom line you can't ever miss
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Is that we would not have actually won world war two
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If the nazi regime
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Had still been in power in berlin,
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We would not have actually won world war two.
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If todd jones regime was still in power in tokyo,
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They had to actually be removed
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Because they were a plague upon the earth.
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And that's what hamas is.
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Could there be a two state solution?
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I really think that's a bad idea.
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I think a one state solution makes more sense,
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But they can sort it out.
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What they can't do is sort it out with hamas.
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That's right. amen, rod.
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Well said all round, my friend.
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Folks, follow him on x for great breakdowns
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Like you just heard.
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Doctor rod martin, thanks so much my friend.
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God bless you.
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We will see you again soon.
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Keep up the great work and coming up
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After the break, my final thoughts.
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Look, we've got momentum right now in america.
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How do we keep it?
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What does the bible say about that?
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I'll break it down next.
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I'll break it down next.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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Hey, some exciting things.
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Needless to say,
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Happening in america right now under the trump administration.
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But folks at the end of the day, i've said all along
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There can be great political achievements,
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But this is a spiritual battle we are locked in right now.
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I talked before the break about momentum.
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I think of the book of hebrews chapter 12, verses one and two.
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Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us,
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Fixing our eyes on jesus,
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The pioneer and perfecter of faith.
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Folks, that's what it's all about.
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At the end of the day,
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We can't make america great again
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Unless god is back at the center of things.
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The good news is i think we're getting there, so be encouraged.
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Tomorrow night, a great israel break down
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That you won't want to miss until then.
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God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: August 12, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

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