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: Confronting the Darkness | Stakelbeck Tonight | May 12, 2026
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck.
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- And the thing about evil is that it is relentless.
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- Unless evil is decisively defeated, it will just keep
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- Coming and coming.
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- Because that's what evil does.
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- That's why the u.s.
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- And its allies had to utterly crush the war machines of nazi
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- Germany and imperial japan during world war two.
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- Anything less meant that those two fanatical regimes
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- Would have kept fighting and killing indefinitely.
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- Evil is relentless
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- Because at the end of the day, it is demonically driven.
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- Folks, beneath the surface, we're locked
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- In a spiritual battle with some very dark forces.
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- That's why iran's regime still refuses to surrender.
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- Over the past two and a half months,
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- The united states and israel have destroyed
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- Iran's navy, air force, air defenses
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- And its nuclear program and have decimated
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- Iran's political and military leadership.
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- The regime is losing some $500 million per day
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- Thanks to the ongoing u.s.
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- Naval blockade.
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- The mullahs have no leverage.
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- They're facing total collapse, and yet they continue
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- To threaten the united states and are vowing to fight on.
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- Evil is relentless, but
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- It's also arrogant and irrational.
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- Look no further than the apocalyptic
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- Islamist ideology that drives iran's leaders.
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- Folks, this is very important.
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- They truly believe that their islamic messiah,
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- They call him the mahdi or the 12th imam will return
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- During a time of great global chaos.
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- This messiah figure will
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- Then lead the armies of islam to victory over all of the jews
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- And christians, with iran as the tip of his spear.
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- And according to this apocalyptic jihadi
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- Vision, jesus, a jew, will accompany the mahdi
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- And help him kill all the jews
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- And the christians, who, of course, follow jesus.
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- I know it sounds crazy because it is.
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- And the mainstream media won't touch it.
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- This may be the first time you've ever heard any of this.
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- But iran's leaders truly believe this stuff,
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- And it's a major reason that they will not surrender
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- Unless they are completely defeated.
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- They'll talk you to death literally at the negotiating
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- Table, and drag things out as long as they can
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- Because they believe that maybe, just maybe,
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- The mahdi will emerge from hiding, save the day,
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- And vanquish the united states and israel once and for all.
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- The legendary sun zhu, in his classic the art of war,
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- Wrote that the first rule of war is to know your enemy.
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- If we do not understand iran's regime and what motivates
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- It, they'll take advantage and just keep coming.
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- Thankfully, i believe president trump understands
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- This very clearly and will do what needs to be done.
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- He has said repeatedly that iran's regime has spent
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- 47 years creating chaos,
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- And that the time for games is over.
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- Secondly, and perhaps even more importantly,
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- The majority of the iranian people reject the regime
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- And its ideology.
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- So between us and the people,
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- There is a golden opportunity here to deal a final blow
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- To the relentless evil of iran's regime.
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- By the way, if you think that sort of evil
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- Is just a problem over there thousands of miles away.
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- Think again.
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- Under its new islamo communist mayor zoran mamdani,
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- New york city
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- Has become the national epicenter for anti-semitism
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- In america.
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- Since mamdani took office on january 1st, jews
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- Have been increasingly attacked and harassed in the streets,
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- And synagogues have been swarmed by pro hamas mobs.
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- Mamdani, who along with his wife is openly anti-israel,
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- Is empowering islamic and marxist radicals
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- And creating a very dangerous climate for jews.
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- Here was the scene just last night
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- In a residential jewish neighborhood in brooklyn, where
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- Anti-semitic marchers harassed local residents.
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- Watch.
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- Imagine that horde of islamists and marxist
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- Walking through your neighborhood
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- And shouting threats at you and your kids.
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- That's what jews in new york
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- City are dealing with right now on practically a daily basis.
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- Trump administration
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- Officials are taking notice, thank god,
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- And i believe they'll take action.
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- This cannot stand in america.
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- Although this is the mamdani vision of what america
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- Should be,
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- A place where no jew is safe from times square to texas.
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- They say they're just anti-israel.
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- But as you just saw in brooklyn, which is a long way
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- From israel, it's much, much deeper.
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- Up next, we break down
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- What can be done to turn back this evil tide.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- We hear a lot about the west wing of the white house.
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- But tonight
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- We're taking you inside the east wing, where first lady
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- Melania trump is quietly but powerfully reshaping what
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- That role means in america and around the world.
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- From securing millions for foster youth housing
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- To launching a nationwide i challenge engaging thousands
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- Of schools
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- To building an international coalition spanning 50 nations.
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- This is a strategic, action driven agenda.
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- Marc beckman serves as exclusive senior adviser
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- To first lady melania trump.
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- He's also a media executive, author
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- And the producer behind the hit documentary melania.
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- Marc, great to have you with us.
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- Hey, the great work you're doing with the first lady
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- In terms of foster care is kind of near and dear to my heart.
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- Marc, years ago, i worked pretty closely
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- With foster kids in my hometown of philadelphia,
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- And i was always struck by the fact that once they turn 18,
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- They're kind of out on their own.
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- Talk about fostering the future
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- And what the first lady is doing there.
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- Well, you know, we really appreciate
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- When i say we i mean the first lady
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- And me, the opportunity to share this,
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- On your show with your audience,
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- Because the foster care community is hands down
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- One of the biggest priorities for melania trump in 2021.
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- She created fostering the future.
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- Fostering the futures mission is to provide
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- These individuals who reach the age of majority,
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- Who turn 18, with the ability to go to college,
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- Secure an entry level job,
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- Become financially autonomous, and hopefully avoid ending up
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- Homeless, mixed up in drugs and sex trafficking
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- And all of these other things that happened to people
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- Within the foster care community.
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- So since building that platform,
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- The first lady has underwritten, through her efforts,
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- Scholarships now for melania trump, fostering the future.
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- Students across,
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- You know, incredible schools and almost 33% of the states
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- From coast to coast schools like vanderbilt,
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- Georgia, lsu, pepperdine,
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- Uva, really best in class schools, miami, gainesville.
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- It goes on and on.
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- The list is extensive. now.
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- And, we're proud to say that we're changing people's lives.
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- We received, for example, a letter from a young woman
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- Who, shared
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- That she would have ended up homeless,
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- But for the fact that the first lady's efforts
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- Were able to provide her with a college education.
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- And in the letter, she shared an image of all of her students.
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- She's a teacher now, and she's bringing these people,
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- These american kids, up in a way that's wholesome.
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- And hopefully it will improve our country as well.
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- So it's an incredible moment.
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- Fostering the future is really important.
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- We continue to build it.
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- We have over 20 universities across the country,
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- And this is a major, major initiative for the first lady.
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- Again,
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- The overarching theme of the initiatives
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- Across the board for the first lady, marc is be best.
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- And part of that foster kids, of course,
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- And they're bouncing around many times.
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- Marc, i've seen it firsthand
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- From home to home, different foster homes is so important.
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- This initiative by the first lady.
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- You've also got the take it down act again.
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- The first lady has had a huge focus on children.
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- During her run as first lady talked about the
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- Take it down act, marc, and why that's so important.
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- Melania trump championed the take it down act.
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- This was her first piece of legislation.
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- And what the take it down act does is it
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- Provides support, protection essentially
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- For victims of non-consensual intimate imagery.
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- So what's happening with the rise,
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- With the advancement of, of,
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- Both social media and artificial intelligence?
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- Is that mean spirited people?
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- Bad actors will superimpose a person's head
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- On top of pornography, essentially,
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- And spread that out across social media.
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- You can imagine the impact this has, the adverse impact
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- It has on the victim as well as the victims families.
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- Well, melania trump championed that piece of legislator
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- Legislature through.
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- And i'm proud to share that last month, the first conviction,
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- Through the take it down act was imposed in the midwest.
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- And, one more thing that's worth sharing is that
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- Melania trump was at the she was up on the hill
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- At the prestigious ways and means committee.
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- Pushing through her second piece of legislation,
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- Which is also surrounding
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- Fostering the future and foster care of kids.
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- I believe it just came
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- Out of committee with 100% bipartisan approval.
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- So we might actually see this first lady push through
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- Two pieces of legislation helping american children.
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- Bipartisan in dc these days is very rare indeed.
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- Marc. and hey, look, you guys are so busy.
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- The first lady spoke before the u.n.
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- Recently on education.
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- You've also got this ai initiative, marc,
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- The presidential ai challenge in schools
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- Across the united states. tell us more about that.
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- Well, the presidential ai challenge
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- Is an incredible situation because
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- The first lady was tapped by the west wing.
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- She's the only person with actual hands on experience
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- Using artificial intelligence.
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- You might be aware and your your viewers might be aware.
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- She stood up her number one new york times book, melania
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- In the audio format by using artificial intelligence.
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- So with that, she realizes how important it is
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- For american students to understand
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- How to use technology and to be educated.
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- So this a.i.
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- Challenge has now secured
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- Participants from all 50 states, plus washington, d.c.
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- And puerto rico.
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- And what's cool about it
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- Is that they're not only learning
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- How to advance forward
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- With this new technology, to keep america
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- With the next generation ahead of the rest of the world.
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- But she's also implementing,
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- Some cool things for the participants.
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- So a few of the state champions were just with the first lady
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- And her majesty queen camilla at the white house,
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- Where the first lady
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- Put together a fully immersive,
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- Cross-cultural educational experience.
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- And these american ai challenge state champions
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- Were on the tennis court
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- At the tennis pavilion, learning all about america's history
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- And the united kingdom's history with our first lady
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- And the queen.
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- Very cool markets, cutting edge stuff.
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- Hey, last question about a minute left.
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- You, of course, were the producer
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- Behind the blockbuster documentary melania.
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- You've been working with the first lady closely for 25 years.
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- Marc, tell us more about the first lady
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- A little bit on a personal level
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- And what it's like working so closely with her.
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- About 45 seconds left.
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- She is the first lady,
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- Is the hardest working, most committed person out there.
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- She works every day, weekends, holidays
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- And she is no longer about raising awareness.
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- She's only about impacting people's lives.
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- This movie, if you haven't seen it,
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- It went to number one worldwide because it showcases
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- This part of melania trump, her family, her work and career,
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- And as well as her philanthropy all as it leads into becoming
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- First lady of the united states again.
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- So i would highly recommend people could catch it on prime.
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- Yeah, it's a must watch. marc, you did a great job in the film.
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- You're doing great work across the board.
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- My friend with the first lady, marc,
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- Thank you so much for marc, folks on social media.
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- Marc. god bless. keep up the great work.
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- We'll see you again soon.
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- Coming up after the break, we're keeping it in the west,
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- The white house a little closer to the west
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- Wing with the heads of the white house faith office,
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- Are going to break down
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- The big rededicate 250 event happening in dc this weekend.
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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 tonight, as america approaches
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- A milestone moment, the 250th anniversary of our founding.
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- Something extraordinary is happening in washington, d.c..
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- A call is
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- Going out across this nation not just to celebrate our history,
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- But to return to our foundation to rededicate
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- The united states of america to god.
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- On may 17th, leaders, pastors, and believers from across
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- The country will gather in dc for rededicate.
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- 250 a powerful moment of prayer, worship,
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- And national reflection.
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- Folks, we hope you join us here on tbn on the 17th for our live
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- Coverage of this incredible event.
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- It's a call echoing all the way back to 1776,
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- When the continental congress
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- Declared a day of fasting and prayer.
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- And now, 250 years later, that same call is going out
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- Once again.
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- I sat down with pastor paula white cane and jenny
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- Korn of the white house
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- Faith office to talk more about this historic moment.
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- Take a look.
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- Pastor paula, jenny, great to
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- Be with you here again at the white house.
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- And wonderful.
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- Yeah, with you, of. course, in a very busy time. of course.
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- Look, 250th anniversary of the birth
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- Of the united states and marking the occasion
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- Rededicating the nation to the lord.
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- We're talking off-camera.
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- I said this is biblical level stuff.
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- Absolutely. he's dedicating the nation.
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- Pastor paul, talk about the significance
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- Of this event coming up on may 17th.
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- Well, think about this.
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- The history of this great country
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- Certainly was built on the foundation of the bible.
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- And christians we say judeo-christian,
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- Which is a later terminology,
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- But we do know that it was the torah,
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- The bible, the word of god.
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- And there is no denying
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- That when you go to the capitol, when you go around,
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- You see our history,
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- Know our history, and there have been
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- So many generations that have tried to erase that.
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- But our president, at this rededication of 250 said,
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- We are rededicating the nation to god as one nation under god.
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- And when the highest civil authority, the president
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- Of the united states,
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- Does that, think about what kind of ramifications that has.
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- So we understand the power of that is believers.
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- We know that
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- When we put god first and say, this nation belongs to you,
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- We have the same results as when they went
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- And put the little white crosses at plymouth and dedicated this
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- As a beacon of light, which it still is to the world,
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- That the gospel
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- Would be preached around the world,
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- Which america has predominantly done.
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- And think about the
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- Great station of tbn, how it's carried that out.
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- Could it have done that in any other country?
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- Probably not.
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- It had to be this country that god used it for.
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- So i think we are really in an awakening, a revival,
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- Perhaps a reformation.
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- Yeah. wow. exciting.
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- I mean, it's a josiah moment.
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- It really is. for president trump is amazing.
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- I think of what god said to samuel.
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- Those who honor me, i will honor.
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- And we're certainly honoring god on the public stage.
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- You're literally rededicating the nation to the lord.
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- It's amazing.
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- And, jenny, look, part of this initiative is
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- 1 million americans praying for one hour a week.
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- That's what president trump is calling for.
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- Tell us more about that. that's exciting. right.
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- And i think something to note too.
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- On may 17th, 1776,
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- The continental congress called
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- For a day of fasting and prayer.
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- So on that day in may 17th of this year, 250 years later,
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- We're going to honor that.
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- And also call for the same thing for everybody
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- In america to come together and to pray.
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- And praying is so important
- 00:17:24.008 --> 00:17:25.910
- When there's so much division on social media
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- And there's just so much
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- Bickering happening,
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- And even things like another assassin,
- 00:17:30.982 --> 00:17:33.017
- Say, an assassination attempt on the president's life
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- And everybody in there
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- Who knows what would have happened, right?
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- This is a day for unity, for gratitude, for prayer.
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- So people can come together and focus on something
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- That's positive for this country and give up.
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- Just give gratitude for that.
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- And having 1 million americans pray, which, by the way,
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- Not just happening may 17th.
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- We've been having that prayer go on since the beginning
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- Of this year.
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- So we know that over a million people have been praying
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- And a million more will continue to pray,
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- Not just through may 17th, but through the end of the year.
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- And we're praying
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- For another 250 years of success and gratitude in this country.
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- Yeah. it's amazing.
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- And look, we have
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- You have here the faith office within earshot of the west wing
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- Faith leaders coming through literally on a daily basis,
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- Covering this administration, this nation in prayer.
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- It's amazing.
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- And, pastor paul, you talked about a reformation,
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- An awakening.
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- Do you sense that?
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- And you've seen many movements,
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- Spiritual movements over the years.
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- Do you sense something special happening
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- Right now in america, especially among young people?
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- Absolutely.
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- We know gen z is returning, are coming to god at, all time
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- High numbers.
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- We know that bible sales are up 60 something percent right now.
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- I mean, they'll say
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- We sort of like 26 and depends on the month, etcetera
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- With the sales.
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- But we see this room,
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- We've got this hunger for god, this return to god.
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- So history teaches us when my people,
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- Which are called by my name or humble themselves,
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- Turn from their wicked ways, you know, and which.
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- President trump just read by. that amazing.
- 00:19:04.942 --> 00:19:07.311
- Part of america reads the bible is incredible.
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- It was again the highest civil leader
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- In the world reading the bible from a sacred desk.
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- Yeah, the president's desk of the united states.
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- And he's quoting the word of god.
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- I feel like we're back with, our forefathers, you know, adams
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- And washington and lincoln and all the ones that we read about.
- 00:19:25.830 --> 00:19:29.767
- So much so with president trump and with this move of god,
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- History does
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- Teach us about the awakenings, about, revivals, about,
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- What a reformation looks like.
- 00:19:38.376 --> 00:19:39.944
- And it always all revival, all awakenings
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- Come through prayer.
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- So we know that what happens then?
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- God will hear our prayers and he will heal our land.
- 00:19:46.851 --> 00:19:50.121
- So our jenny was talking about that division.
- 00:19:50.121 --> 00:19:52.490
- And, when we look back at cdc stats after covid had happened,
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- We see young girls specifically under the age of 18,
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- That 1 in 4 attempted suicide,
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- That 67% are persistently sad.
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- I mean, it was just overwhelming.
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- When we look at what was happening
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- Right here in montgomery county,
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- They had to had to fight all the way up montgomery
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- County, maryland, a stone's throw away from this building.
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- Had to fight all the way up to the supreme court
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- Because three year olds, four year olds, five year olds
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- Were watching very graphic pornography.
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- And the state said, you cannot opt your child out.
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- So they had to fight for
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- Parental rights so they could just up their child out.
- 00:20:38.135 --> 00:20:41.872
- And i believe that the heart of god has been touched
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- And that people said enough.
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- This is not going to happen to our children.
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- This is not going to happen to this next generation.
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- And what you really see is a return to god, a repentance,
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- Crying out to god.
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- Yeah, jesus christ as lord and savior.
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- He is the only one.
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- While we respect politics, we appreciate
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- And thank god for our leader and president trump.
- 00:21:03.728 --> 00:21:05.896
- We know that there is only one messiah.
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- There's only one way, one truth, and his name is jesus christ.
- 00:21:08.999 --> 00:21:12.837
- And president trump has opened that door for people of faith
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- To not
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- Be removed from government, but to have a seat at the table
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- Because we are a
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- Powerful people in this nation, and we know what prayer does.
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- And for rededicate to 50, i think people should know that
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- It's going to be an amazing event on that may 17th.
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- That is going to start at noon, and it's going to go for
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- About six hours, and you're going to have prayer,
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- You're going to have worship music.
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- You're going to have storytelling
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- About, amazing people who have just been heroes
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- In this country.
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- You'll also have people like secretary haig said, ben carson,
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- Speaker johnson are going to be there,
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- But then you're going to have pastors and faith leaders
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- Who are going to come
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- And just talk about their faith and tell their story.
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- And you got chris tomlin coming.
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- You got a bunch of other people.
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- I mean, you have to go look at rededicate to 50 doors,
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- Rededicate to 50.org and also sign up to attend.
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- Great stuff folks.
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- As you just heard, incredible
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- Things are happening in our country.
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- But as believers,
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- What is our responsibility to preserve our way of life?
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- More on that in my final thoughts after the break.
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- More on that in my final thoughts after the break.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks, as we
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- Wrap up here.
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- Look, may 17th big, big day on the calendar.
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- Rededicate 250. again.
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- Tune in here live on tbn.
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- I'll be in dc with matt laurie.
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- Crowds covering all these incredible events.
- 00:22:38.826 --> 00:22:40.694
- But america didn't get to be the most prosperous nation
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- In the history of the world.
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- Without leaning on the lord.
- 00:22:45.399 --> 00:22:48.469
- And we must continue to do that if we expect future prosperity
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- For our kids and grandkids.
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- I think of galatians
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- Chapter six verse nine, let us not become weary in doing good,
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- For at the proper time we will reap a harvest.
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- If we do not give up, we must fight for freedom
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- Every single day, and those freedoms,
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- Those rights come from the lord.
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- So turn to him every day
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- And pray without ceasing for our nation.
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- Hey, tomorrow night bill o'reilly is here,
- 00:23:13.594 --> 00:23:15.395
- The one and only going to be a great show.
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- Until then, god bless you.
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- We'll see you soon.
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