Erick Stakelbeck: Faith, Family & Freedom | Stakelbeck Tonight

February 27, 2026 | 23:28

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: Faith, Family & Freedom | Stakelbeck Tonight | February 27, 2026
  • Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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  • I'm erick stakelbeck and it was one of the most
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  • Important state of the union addresses in american history.
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  • President trump brought down the house on tuesday
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  • Night in d.c., and left wing heads nearly
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  • Exploded as he delivered a barnburner of a speech.
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  • The president touted a booming economy, the most secure
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  • Southern border in our history, record low murder rates,
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  • An end to die and child gender mutilations
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  • And the obliteration of iran's nuclear weapons program.
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  • In the meantime,
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  • He also managed to award
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  • And acknowledge several american heroes
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  • And even faced off with the dubious duo of ilhan
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  • Omar and rashida tlaib as they heckled him from the chamber.
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  • It was a big night for faith, family and freedom and a
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  • Big week overall, with mexico going up in cartel flames
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  • And the showdown
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  • With iran's regime reaching the point of no return.
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  • Here to help us break it all down is our good friend
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  • Josh hammer,
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  • Senior editor at large at newsweek
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  • And host of the josh hammer show.
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  • Josh, always great to see you, my friend. hey.
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  • Incredible state of the union.
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  • And i thought and obviously the list of accomplishments
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  • Stands out 13 months of this counterrevolution
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  • Against woke madness.
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  • But josh, what really stuck out to me
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  • Was the reaction or lack of a reaction
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  • From the democrats in the chamber.
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  • We're a long way, it seems, from the days of truman and jfk.
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  • This is now the party of aoc, ilhan omar and zoran mamdani.
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  • Were you struck by that?
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  • The reaction of the left during the speech?
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  • Yeah, erick.
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  • Great, joe, as always. look, i absolutely was struck by that.
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  • I thought the president trump had three things
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  • That he has to accomplish going into this address.
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  • I think that he accomplished all three.
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  • The first thing i thought that he had to do
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  • Was compellingly address the economy,
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  • Which remains the number one issue of concern
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  • For most voters.
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  • I think that he excelled, certainly on that.
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  • And the other two things that he excelled on which
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  • Which are related. and take us back to your points.
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  • On the one hand, i want donald trump to
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  • To really, especially in this post
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  • Olympic hockey triumph milieu in this setting here
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  • To really kind of go
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  • All in full bore, rah rah american patriotism.
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  • This is the 50th anniversary
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  • Of the signing a declaration of independence.
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  • There's a lot to celebrate here.
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  • And he did that
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  • Quite effectively, awarding our first responders
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  • The national guardsman,
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  • Who was tragically injured on the eve of thanksgiving.
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  • The parents of the woman, sarah, was tragically killed there.
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  • A lot of beautiful red, white and blue
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  • Patriotism and the contrast which you alluded to,
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  • It's democrats both extraordinarily petty
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  • And small by comparison to donald trump,
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  • Looked like a statesman. he looks like a president.
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  • He looks like a leader.
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  • He looked like the alpha, frankly. and democrats,
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  • I think, look diminutive and puny by comparison.
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  • There's a very, very, very stark contrast.
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  • And some of those clips will probably continue
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  • To pay political dividends for republicans
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  • On the long road until november.
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  • For the midterms.
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  • Yeah, josh, no doubt the campaign ads
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  • Right themselves after what we saw tuesday night.
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  • Hey, he mentioned did president trump
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  • The most secure border really in american history.
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  • Southern border in particular.
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  • And josh,
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  • With the events of this past week with mexico
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  • Literally going up in flames, american tourist
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  • Essentially trapped there for days.
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  • Man, it feels really good as an american
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  • To have that us-mexico border secure.
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  • How concerned are you about what's happening
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  • At our southern border, at our doorstep
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  • Under the government of claudia sheinbaum in mexico?
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  • I'm very concerned.
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  • Look, puerto vallarta,
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  • Some of these images are genuinely harrowing.
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  • Erick, i've been to puerto vallarta.
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  • I think a lot of americans have. i was there with my wife.
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  • We flew into the airport just about two years ago.
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  • So to see that there could be cartel bombings
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  • At a costco in this tourist center there,
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  • That americans were on lockdown orders,
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  • Do not leave your facilities there from
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  • From the embassy there in mexico city.
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  • It's a reminder that mexico is
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  • Is essentially a failed narco state.
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  • You know, we've been living under this delusion for decades.
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  • The mexico is it is a first world or first world.
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  • Jason country.
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  • We have all these transnational agreements
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  • Like nafta back in the clinton era, us, canada, mexico
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  • Of the big three north american countries.
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  • Heck, this summer,
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  • The fifa world cup is going to be primarily
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  • Hosted by the united states, but canada and mexico
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  • Are both also scheduled to host the matches there.
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  • So you think in mexico, for all the above reasons,
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  • As a first world adjacent country,
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  • But it's not because it fails.
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  • The most foundational question of what
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  • It means to be a sovereign entity,
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  • Which is having a monopoly on the use of force.
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  • The cartels have tremendous, tremendous power.
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  • It's a very, very harrowing reminder.
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  • And donald trump has decreased crossings at that
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  • Us-mexico border by 95% or more.
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  • It's one of the many statistics there
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  • That he was able to correctly
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  • Rattle off on tuesday night there.
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  • How about homicide rates at their lowest rates
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  • Since the mckinley administration,
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  • Literally in the year 1900 across canada?
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  • That's an amazing stat there.
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  • The administration is winning on lots of fronts, erick.
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  • But certainly when it comes to the day to day crime
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  • And or lack thereof concerns for the american people there,
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  • These are some of the issues with administration,
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  • I think is most effectively communicating and winning on.
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  • Yeah. josh.
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  • Well said.
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  • Another issue that president trump keyed on was iran.
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  • And a few key points he brought out.
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  • I thought, josh, he mentioned iran's ballistic missile program
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  • And that
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  • Iran is developing icbms that could reach the united states.
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  • I thought that was kind of a watershed moment.
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  • That's the first time president trump, to my knowledge,
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  • Has mentioned those iranian icbms.
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  • He acknowledged the slaughter of tens of thousands of iranians
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  • And said that iran is looking to restart its nuclear program.
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  • It seems that the regime has crossed every red line.
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  • Do you think the moment of reckoning is here? josh?
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  • The regime has taken donald trump's red line, erick,
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  • And they have not just torn apart,
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  • They have utterly eviscerated before the world's eyes.
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  • A donald trump saying multiple times on truth social
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  • In early january, iranians go out there,
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  • Try to take over your regimes.
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  • Help is on the way, and they promptly proceed to murder.
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  • We don't even know how many people, erick,
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  • Because there are not reliable numbers there.
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  • Anything from 25 to 30,000, potentially upwards of 80,000
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  • Or more.
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  • Is aids barbarism,
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  • The likes of which we have not seen, frankly,
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  • Since the worst days of the 20th century
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  • The killing fields of cambodia, things, things like that.
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  • The red line has to be enforced.
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  • And if there's a deal to be had there,
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  • I will be the first to be all ears.
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  • I simply do not see it coming. and at this point,
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  • Erick, there's been such a military buildup.
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  • There's been a lot of talk, a lot of bluster.
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  • Something is going to have to go down
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  • In the middle east there,
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  • And i my prediction is that something will go down
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  • In the not so distant future.
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  • Probably if i had to make a guess.
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  • Yeah, it's butchery on an industrial scale.
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  • We haven't seen this, as you said,
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  • Josh, since the days of stalin, mao and pol pot.
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  • That's how bad it is.
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  • And the world largely has stood by and watched
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  • And said nothing. about a minute left before the break.
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  • Josh, and we will bring you right back.
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  • It seems to me that israel
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  • And we say this a bunch on this show,
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  • Is the first line of defense for western civilization.
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  • By the way,
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  • You're the author of the bestselling book
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  • Israel and civilization a must read israel first line
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  • America under president trump, at least last line of defense
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  • For judeo-christian civilization.
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  • How stunned have you been?
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  • Maybe not stunned.
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  • Maybe it's predictable at this point,
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  • At the
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  • Silence of the rest of the west when it comes to the genocide
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  • In iran, carried out by the gove
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  • You know, erick, the late, great david horowitz famously said
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  • That inside every progressive is a totalitarian
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  • Waiting to get out.
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  • And the left has had a violent streak, a murderous streak
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  • Going back
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  • At least as far as robespierre and the reign of terror
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  • In revolutionary france in the late 18th century.
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  • So to me,
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  • When i see the left, when it comes
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  • To the revolutionary islamist regime in tehran,
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  • I don't i'm not surprised that they're silent,
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  • Because i think a lot of these folks,
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  • Frankly, are actively cheering on the regime.
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  • Let's not forget that this is part of barack
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  • Obama's great middle east attempted reset.
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  • He he wanted to embolden and to empower iran there.
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  • They see it as a worthy counterweight
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  • To american hegemony, to jail christian influence, to israel
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  • And the more moderate sunni countries there.
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  • So, you know, rather than than our surprise at their silence,
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  • I think that we should soberly, albeit harrowing,
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  • We recognize that they actually want
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  • This terrible regime to be empowered.
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  • Yeah, josh, it is madness.
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  • And thank god we have you here to cut through all the clutter.
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  • Josh hammer folks, be sure.
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  • Follow me on x across social media.
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  • Pick up israel and civilization is bestselling book.
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  • And after the break
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  • We'll talk more with josh about israel,
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  • The state of play in the middle east.
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  • And what about the state of play on the us supreme court?
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  • More with josh hammer after the break.
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  • Stick around.
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  • Stick around.
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  • Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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  • We're talking to josh hammer,
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  • Host of the josh hammer show, editor
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  • At large at newsweek
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  • And author of the bestseller israel and civilization.
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  • And josh.
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  • Speaking of which,
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  • You could say, in a sense, israel is already alongside
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  • The united states in this effort against the iranian regime,
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  • Intelligence sharing and all the rest.
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  • But do you see a possibility
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  • That israel will militarily come alongside the u.s.
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  • In an attack
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  • Against the world's number one state sponsor of terrorism?
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  • I certainly do.
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  • Erick, i actually lived a little bit of this firsthand.
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  • So i actually was in israel myself
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  • When the war against iran started last june.
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  • And i remember this vividly because it was roughly 3 a.m.
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  • The morning local time in israel,
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  • And all the sirens went off and
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  • My wife and i and our then six month old baby, we woke up.
  • 00:09:19.646 --> 00:09:23.082
  • We're trying to figure out what the heck is is going on here.
  • 00:09:23.082 --> 00:09:25.952
  • It turns out the time that that was a prophylactic
  • 00:09:25.952 --> 00:09:28.921
  • Siren blast, because israel had just launched
  • 00:09:28.921 --> 00:09:30.723
  • A preemptive strikes inside iran.
  • 00:09:30.723 --> 00:09:32.358
  • So i essentially lived through the first four days of that war
  • 00:09:32.358 --> 00:09:35.962
  • Before i did this whole evacuation
  • 00:09:35.962 --> 00:09:37.530
  • With ron desantis and the whole florida crew
  • 00:09:37.530 --> 00:09:39.699
  • To get back home safely to florida. but
  • 00:09:39.699 --> 00:09:42.802
  • Let's not forget that last june,
  • 00:09:43.436 --> 00:09:46.039
  • A lot of the headlines revolve around the united states
  • 00:09:46.039 --> 00:09:48.675
  • Coming in with these b-2 bombers, this 37 hour bombing
  • 00:09:48.675 --> 00:09:51.844
  • Run from missouri to iran, back to missouri that they they
  • 00:09:51.844 --> 00:09:55.181
  • They do significant damage at fordow and various
  • 00:09:55.181 --> 00:09:57.383
  • Other heavily fortified iranian nuclear facilities.
  • 00:09:57.383 --> 00:09:59.719
  • The key thing to remember
  • 00:09:59.719 --> 00:10:00.953
  • Is that that that could grab that
  • 00:10:00.953 --> 00:10:03.456
  • That massive shock at the end could not have been possible.
  • 00:10:03.456 --> 00:10:06.693
  • Indeed, it would not have happened
  • 00:10:06.693 --> 00:10:08.261
  • Had israel, not
  • 00:10:08.261 --> 00:10:09.595
  • Especially in those
  • 00:10:09.595 --> 00:10:10.830
  • Opening hours of the war, done tremendous, tremendous damage
  • 00:10:10.830 --> 00:10:14.033
  • To iranian air defense, missile
  • 00:10:14.033 --> 00:10:15.735
  • Defense, taking out a lot of the top commanders
  • 00:10:15.735 --> 00:10:17.837
  • And the islamic revolutionary guard corps of there.
  • 00:10:17.837 --> 00:10:19.939
  • And by the way, that first aerial sortie
  • 00:10:19.939 --> 00:10:22.642
  • Last june by israel, that in terms not impossible,
  • 00:10:22.642 --> 00:10:25.645
  • Had israel not done such damage to hezbollah
  • 00:10:25.645 --> 00:10:28.347
  • In lebanon the year prior.
  • 00:10:28.347 --> 00:10:29.782
  • For decades, hezbollah
  • 00:10:29.782 --> 00:10:31.050
  • Was the main insurance policy for the iranian regime there.
  • 00:10:31.050 --> 00:10:34.153
  • So all of these things work together.
  • 00:10:34.153 --> 00:10:35.955
  • The united states cannot effectively operate
  • 00:10:35.955 --> 00:10:38.024
  • Against iran and against its various enemies in the region
  • 00:10:38.024 --> 00:10:41.594
  • Without the help of israel.
  • 00:10:41.594 --> 00:10:42.995
  • And this is such a basic, rudimentary point, erick.
  • 00:10:42.995 --> 00:10:45.431
  • Frankly, i'm flabbergasted
  • 00:10:45.431 --> 00:10:46.833
  • That some people have such a hard time understanding it.
  • 00:10:46.833 --> 00:10:50.002
  • But, but yes, if there's going to be another military campaign
  • 00:10:50.002 --> 00:10:53.539
  • Against iran, which seems to me is only at this point
  • 00:10:53.539 --> 00:10:56.409
  • A matter, a matter of when, not a matter of if.
  • 00:10:56.409 --> 00:10:59.312
  • I have very little doubt that israel will be involved in
  • 00:10:59.312 --> 00:11:01.714
  • Some fairly significant capacity there.
  • 00:11:01.714 --> 00:11:03.483
  • Josh, make great points all around.
  • 00:11:03.483 --> 00:11:04.884
  • And hezbollah, as you said, hezbollah was seen for years
  • 00:11:04.884 --> 00:11:07.286
  • As kind of the 800 pound gorilla at israel's
  • 00:11:07.286 --> 00:11:10.156
  • Northern doorstep in israel, with a few lightning operations
  • 00:11:10.156 --> 00:11:12.925
  • Starting with the beeper operation.
  • 00:11:12.925 --> 00:11:14.460
  • September 2024 brought a swift, not entire end hezbollah.
  • 00:11:14.460 --> 00:11:18.898
  • But hezbollah is still licking its wounds
  • 00:11:18.898 --> 00:11:21.000
  • From what happened in the fall of 2024.
  • 00:11:21.000 --> 00:11:23.269
  • Hey, speaking of not realizing the importance of israel,
  • 00:11:23.269 --> 00:11:26.839
  • We have got this wave of podcasters
  • 00:11:26.839 --> 00:11:28.908
  • Led by tucker carlson, of course,
  • 00:11:28.908 --> 00:11:30.977
  • And you've been critical.
  • 00:11:30.977 --> 00:11:31.911
  • Rightly so, josh, of them,
  • 00:11:31.911 --> 00:11:33.880
  • Who are to me openly anti-semitic, anti-israel.
  • 00:11:33.880 --> 00:11:36.516
  • What did you make
  • 00:11:36.516 --> 00:11:37.583
  • Of the exchange between tucker carlson and ambassador
  • 00:11:37.583 --> 00:11:41.087
  • Mike huckabee?
  • 00:11:41.087 --> 00:11:42.088
  • Last week, tucker
  • 00:11:42.088 --> 00:11:43.089
  • Carlson called for dna tests for every israeli.
  • 00:11:43.089 --> 00:11:47.193
  • You've been very critical of him, and again, for good reason.
  • 00:11:47.193 --> 00:11:50.229
  • Any takeaways from that?
  • 00:11:50.229 --> 00:11:51.364
  • That really stuck out to you.
  • 00:11:51.364 --> 00:11:53.900
  • So i listened to the entire interview, for better
  • 00:11:53.900 --> 00:11:56.002
  • Or for worse.
  • 00:11:56.002 --> 00:11:56.636
  • Erick, i you know, i will
  • 00:11:56.636 --> 00:11:57.570
  • I will pay for my sins at some point there.
  • 00:11:57.570 --> 00:11:58.971
  • But but but i listen to the the entire conversation
  • 00:11:58.971 --> 00:12:01.908
  • Between tucker carlson and ambassador huckabee.
  • 00:12:01.908 --> 00:12:04.410
  • First of all, ambassador huckabee,
  • 00:12:04.410 --> 00:12:05.478
  • I think did extremely well.
  • 00:12:05.478 --> 00:12:07.780
  • He was clearly, bemused.
  • 00:12:07.780 --> 00:12:10.082
  • He was perplexed. yeah.
  • 00:12:10.082 --> 00:12:11.984
  • He was he was perhaps frustrated times
  • 00:12:11.984 --> 00:12:13.653
  • There, and rightfully so, because these were deeply
  • 00:12:13.653 --> 00:12:16.455
  • Perplexing and amusing and frustrating questions.
  • 00:12:16.455 --> 00:12:18.925
  • But he handled himself, as he always does, with aplomb.
  • 00:12:18.925 --> 00:12:22.428
  • He's he's a very composed man there.
  • 00:12:22.428 --> 00:12:24.864
  • He's been in the public life for a very long time.
  • 00:12:24.864 --> 00:12:26.432
  • So, so two very large thumbs up to the ambassador.
  • 00:12:26.432 --> 00:12:29.769
  • As for as for tucker,
  • 00:12:29.769 --> 00:12:31.470
  • You know, frankly, what is there to say
  • 00:12:31.470 --> 00:12:32.638
  • That hasn't been said there?
  • 00:12:32.638 --> 00:12:34.173
  • I don't
  • 00:12:34.173 --> 00:12:35.041
  • I don't pretend to have all the answers
  • 00:12:35.041 --> 00:12:36.209
  • As to why tucker carlson has gone down
  • 00:12:36.209 --> 00:12:38.477
  • This particular hole, that he has gone down
  • 00:12:38.477 --> 00:12:40.580
  • Since getting fired by fox news.
  • 00:12:40.580 --> 00:12:42.448
  • But at this point, erick,
  • 00:12:42.448 --> 00:12:44.250
  • I think it is safe to say
  • 00:12:44.250 --> 00:12:45.218
  • That he is not merely the most dangerous
  • 00:12:45.218 --> 00:12:46.953
  • Anti-semite in the history of the united states. they are.
  • 00:12:46.953 --> 00:12:48.888
  • I genuinely, earnestly, honest to god of you, tucker
  • 00:12:48.888 --> 00:12:51.991
  • Carlson, as the single most dangerous man in america today.
  • 00:12:51.991 --> 00:12:55.228
  • And that includes george soros. that includes anyone else.
  • 00:12:55.228 --> 00:12:57.763
  • And i will tell you why i feel that way,
  • 00:12:57.763 --> 00:12:58.998
  • Because it's not actually just about israel.
  • 00:12:58.998 --> 00:13:02.368
  • It's not even just about the jews.
  • 00:13:02.368 --> 00:13:04.070
  • It's not even about christian zionists who talk.
  • 00:13:04.070 --> 00:13:05.972
  • Carlson says that he hates more than anyone in the world.
  • 00:13:05.972 --> 00:13:08.274
  • He literally said, that's not one this.
  • 00:13:08.274 --> 00:13:09.609
  • It's actually a lot broader than that.
  • 00:13:09.609 --> 00:13:11.177
  • I think that the actual end goal
  • 00:13:11.177 --> 00:13:13.145
  • For tucker carlson spent
  • 00:13:13.145 --> 00:13:14.413
  • Some of his fellow travelers, people like candace owens
  • 00:13:14.413 --> 00:13:17.416
  • And others there.
  • 00:13:17.416 --> 00:13:18.284
  • I think that their actual goal, erick,
  • 00:13:18.284 --> 00:13:19.919
  • Is to destroy the maga coalition,
  • 00:13:19.919 --> 00:13:22.321
  • To destroy the current iteration of the conservative movement,
  • 00:13:22.321 --> 00:13:25.658
  • The current iteration
  • 00:13:25.658 --> 00:13:26.792
  • Of the republican party voting base to burn it all down,
  • 00:13:26.792 --> 00:13:30.162
  • To destroy this notion that the right ought to stand
  • 00:13:30.162 --> 00:13:32.832
  • For the ecumenical biblical inheritance,
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  • The very inheritance that i write about
  • 00:13:34.734 --> 00:13:36.068
  • In my book, israel and civilization.
  • 00:13:36.068 --> 00:13:37.570
  • They don't like that they actually hate that.
  • 00:13:37.570 --> 00:13:39.438
  • They want to replace that with something a lot darker,
  • 00:13:39.438 --> 00:13:41.807
  • A lot more anti-western, a lot more pagan, a lot more
  • 00:13:41.807 --> 00:13:44.877
  • Pro islam, more pro islamic there.
  • 00:13:44.877 --> 00:13:46.913
  • Which is why tucker's doing this whole syria apology
  • 00:13:46.913 --> 00:13:49.148
  • Tour across the middle east there.
  • 00:13:49.148 --> 00:13:50.883
  • And to me,
  • 00:13:50.883 --> 00:13:52.084
  • If that vision of what it means
  • 00:13:52.084 --> 00:13:53.719
  • To be on the quote unquote right, god forbid
  • 00:13:53.719 --> 00:13:55.755
  • If that actually ends up carrying the day 20,
  • 00:13:55.755 --> 00:13:58.090
  • 30 years from now, that's the end of the right in america.
  • 00:13:58.090 --> 00:14:01.827
  • And the left, frankly, ended a long time ago.
  • 00:14:01.827 --> 00:14:04.163
  • The left is so far gone.
  • 00:14:04.163 --> 00:14:05.531
  • So it's pretty dark stuff that point.
  • 00:14:05.531 --> 00:14:07.266
  • So i care about this first and foremost
  • 00:14:07.266 --> 00:14:08.901
  • As an american patriot, only then as a concerned
  • 00:14:08.901 --> 00:14:11.904
  • Jewish american there. but it's it's really dark stuff.
  • 00:14:11.904 --> 00:14:14.874
  • The only silver lining here
  • 00:14:14.874 --> 00:14:16.509
  • Is that with every act of insanity
  • 00:14:16.509 --> 00:14:18.344
  • That tucker does like this
  • 00:14:18.344 --> 00:14:19.345
  • Dna testing that you properly allude to,
  • 00:14:19.345 --> 00:14:21.914
  • He just continues to be a clown himself
  • 00:14:21.914 --> 00:14:23.416
  • And expose himself for the mess of a human being
  • 00:14:23.416 --> 00:14:25.551
  • That he's become.
  • 00:14:25.551 --> 00:14:26.652
  • And that is a silver lining here, i think, you know.
  • 00:14:26.652 --> 00:14:28.587
  • Josh, sobering analysis and you're spot
  • 00:14:28.587 --> 00:14:30.957
  • On, sad to say, but you're exactly right.
  • 00:14:30.957 --> 00:14:33.092
  • Hey, about a minute left the supreme court.
  • 00:14:33.092 --> 00:14:35.628
  • You've been writing about this as of late.
  • 00:14:35.628 --> 00:14:37.363
  • Could we see vacancies in the not so distant future?
  • 00:14:37.363 --> 00:14:40.633
  • Clarence thomas, samuel alito, two stalwarts, of course.
  • 00:14:40.633 --> 00:14:43.736
  • Could they eventually step down about a minute left?
  • 00:14:43.736 --> 00:14:46.472
  • What are you seeing there?
  • 00:14:46.472 --> 00:14:47.306
  • I think the odds of a supreme court vacancy
  • 00:14:48.207 --> 00:14:50.276
  • This summer to cut to the chase are greater than 50%.
  • 00:14:50.276 --> 00:14:54.347
  • I think that there's a very decent chance
  • 00:14:54.347 --> 00:14:56.248
  • We could get one, possibly two, vacancy in some.
  • 00:14:56.248 --> 00:14:58.617
  • I'm not going to predict two, but i think
  • 00:14:58.617 --> 00:14:59.819
  • There's a strong chance for at least one.
  • 00:14:59.819 --> 00:15:01.687
  • The reason is very simple.
  • 00:15:01.687 --> 00:15:03.122
  • Sam alito is turning 76 years old in april.
  • 00:15:03.122 --> 00:15:05.591
  • Clarence thomas turns 78 later this year.
  • 00:15:05.591 --> 00:15:09.228
  • There is a currently a republican majority
  • 00:15:09.228 --> 00:15:11.330
  • In the senate.
  • 00:15:11.330 --> 00:15:11.764
  • There
  • 00:15:11.764 --> 00:15:12.231
  • Probably will be
  • 00:15:12.231 --> 00:15:13.165
  • A republican majority come next january,
  • 00:15:13.165 --> 00:15:14.667
  • But you never know in such situations.
  • 00:15:14.667 --> 00:15:16.635
  • There is
  • 00:15:16.635 --> 00:15:17.636
  • If you want to make sure that you're replaced
  • 00:15:17.636 --> 00:15:18.671
  • By an ideological like minded successor,
  • 00:15:18.671 --> 00:15:21.007
  • You could do a lot worse, frankly, than to
  • 00:15:21.007 --> 00:15:23.576
  • Then to exit stage left this summer.
  • 00:15:23.576 --> 00:15:25.211
  • I'm not calling for that, per se.
  • 00:15:25.211 --> 00:15:26.645
  • Alito and thomas are amazing americans, amazing,
  • 00:15:26.645 --> 00:15:29.148
  • Constitutional as far before me
  • 00:15:29.148 --> 00:15:30.616
  • To try to advise them what to do.
  • 00:15:30.616 --> 00:15:32.385
  • I'm simply saying that's the timing, and the math
  • 00:15:32.385 --> 00:15:35.154
  • Frankly makes sense for it to happen this year.
  • 00:15:35.154 --> 00:15:36.922
  • Josh great break down folks. be sure.
  • 00:15:36.922 --> 00:15:38.591
  • Follow josh on x across social media
  • 00:15:38.591 --> 00:15:40.292
  • To pick up israel and civilization.
  • 00:15:40.292 --> 00:15:42.161
  • Josh great stuff as always.
  • 00:15:42.161 --> 00:15:43.696
  • We'll see you again soon. god bless.
  • 00:15:43.696 --> 00:15:45.498
  • And up next, more on the madness in mexico.
  • 00:15:45.498 --> 00:15:48.267
  • What about the church in mexico?
  • 00:15:48.267 --> 00:15:49.869
  • How is this affecting christians?
  • 00:15:49.869 --> 00:15:51.337
  • Pastor sami rodriguez is here to break it down.
  • 00:15:51.337 --> 00:15:53.939
  • He's got the inside story. next.
  • 00:15:53.939 --> 00:15:58.001
  • He's got the inside story. next.
  • 00:15:58.001 --> 00:16:00.977
  • Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight,
  • 00:16:01.744 --> 00:16:03.646
  • A cartel war has broken out on the streets of mexico.
  • 00:16:03.646 --> 00:16:07.583
  • And christians are caught in the crossfire.
  • 00:16:07.583 --> 00:16:10.286
  • For years, believers in the region
  • 00:16:10.286 --> 00:16:11.921
  • Have been subject to the cartels brutality.
  • 00:16:11.921 --> 00:16:14.424
  • But under president trump, does mexico now have an ally
  • 00:16:14.424 --> 00:16:18.961
  • That could take out the cartels for good?
  • 00:16:18.961 --> 00:16:21.864
  • Here discussing with us is our good
  • 00:16:21.864 --> 00:16:23.266
  • Friend, pastor samuel rodriguez,
  • 00:16:23.266 --> 00:16:25.068
  • Lead pastor of new season church in sacramento, california,
  • 00:16:25.068 --> 00:16:28.237
  • And president
  • 00:16:28.237 --> 00:16:29.405
  • Of the national hispanic christian leadership conference.
  • 00:16:29.405 --> 00:16:31.674
  • Pastor sam, always great to see you.
  • 00:16:31.674 --> 00:16:33.776
  • Hey, there's a network of bible believing churches
  • 00:16:33.776 --> 00:16:37.080
  • Throughout mexico
  • 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:38.081
  • That are really in the middle of this madness
  • 00:16:38.081 --> 00:16:39.916
  • We've seen unfold over the past week.
  • 00:16:39.916 --> 00:16:41.751
  • Tell us more about that.
  • 00:16:41.751 --> 00:16:43.052
  • What believers face in mexico and what can be done there
  • 00:16:43.052 --> 00:16:46.456
  • To get the cartel insanity under control.
  • 00:16:46.456 --> 00:16:49.592
  • Yeah.
  • 00:16:49.826 --> 00:16:50.626
  • Great to be with you, major erick.
  • 00:16:50.626 --> 00:16:52.562
  • Main show. that's the name of the guy.
  • 00:16:52.562 --> 00:16:54.464
  • That's right. he's gone.
  • 00:16:54.464 --> 00:16:55.798
  • So what is meant? chill.
  • 00:16:55.798 --> 00:16:56.933
  • Mentor would be like the al capone on steroids.
  • 00:16:56.933 --> 00:17:00.136
  • The most influential cartel leader in all of mexico.
  • 00:17:00.136 --> 00:17:04.674
  • Gone because of the intervention of the united states,
  • 00:17:04.674 --> 00:17:08.144
  • Of course.
  • 00:17:08.144 --> 00:17:09.011
  • And the church in mexico is thriving in
  • 00:17:09.011 --> 00:17:12.715
  • Light of the cartels
  • 00:17:12.715 --> 00:17:14.283
  • We're talking about in some of the same identical areas
  • 00:17:14.283 --> 00:17:16.919
  • Where you have
  • 00:17:16.919 --> 00:17:18.020
  • Heard stories of bodies being exhumed, these bodies,
  • 00:17:18.020 --> 00:17:21.224
  • Many of them christians, by the way,
  • 00:17:21.224 --> 00:17:23.159
  • The church continues to thrive in the midst of persecution,
  • 00:17:23.159 --> 00:17:26.662
  • Not just from the cartels, but to be very honest,
  • 00:17:26.662 --> 00:17:29.398
  • From the government of claudio sean bong, who is not a believer
  • 00:17:29.398 --> 00:17:32.702
  • And who has come out to churches
  • 00:17:32.702 --> 00:17:34.137
  • Even using some noise ordinances to shut them down,
  • 00:17:34.137 --> 00:17:37.340
  • The church is thriving,
  • 00:17:37.340 --> 00:17:38.941
  • But overcoming right now in this very difficult,
  • 00:17:38.941 --> 00:17:41.511
  • Precarious time in mexico,
  • 00:17:41.511 --> 00:17:43.179
  • We're hearing from pastors on the ground.
  • 00:17:43.179 --> 00:17:45.148
  • God is up to something big.
  • 00:17:45.148 --> 00:17:46.816
  • Yeah, and you can't stop a gospel that includes mexico.
  • 00:17:46.816 --> 00:17:49.652
  • That includes the state of minnesota.
  • 00:17:49.652 --> 00:17:51.554
  • We're talking about some dark places right now. pastor sam.
  • 00:17:51.554 --> 00:17:54.257
  • Minnesota a lot of problems obviously,
  • 00:17:54.257 --> 00:17:56.259
  • Over the past few months,
  • 00:17:56.259 --> 00:17:57.393
  • But you spent some time on the ground there recently,
  • 00:17:57.393 --> 00:17:59.462
  • And you're calling for pastors there to rise up.
  • 00:17:59.462 --> 00:18:01.764
  • You're calling for revival in that state.
  • 00:18:01.764 --> 00:18:04.000
  • Tell us more about it.
  • 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:05.101
  • Flip the script, flip the script.
  • 00:18:05.835 --> 00:18:07.737
  • What is minnesota?
  • 00:18:07.737 --> 00:18:08.971
  • These areas that have received
  • 00:18:08.971 --> 00:18:10.239
  • An incredible amount of attention
  • 00:18:10.239 --> 00:18:11.741
  • Because of the ice raids and the deportations
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  • And the angst and the protests, the corruption
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  • From somalian immigrants and so forth.
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  • Flip the script.
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  • What did god has a plan for minnesota,
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  • Where minnesota will become
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  • An integral part, if not part, of the leadership,
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  • Of an awakening that will change this nation forever
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  • More affirmed this nation 250 years of american history.
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  • What if we're at the precipice
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  • Of a great awakening,
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  • A great outpouring of the holy spirit
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  • That will see more people come to jesus christ
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  • As lord and savior than ever before in american history.
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  • And minnesota will be one of the top states
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  • To experience revival.
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  • I am convinced of that. i was there, met
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  • With the pastors, prayed with the pastors.
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  • There's something rumbling. the anointing of god.
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  • The spirit of god was present.
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  • I'm telling you, something is happening
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  • In minnesota that is righteous and holy.
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  • I love to hear it. it's badly needed.
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  • Pastor sam, we talk about revival.
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  • Look, you do so much work.
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  • Of course, as a leader
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  • In the hispanic community in the united states,
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  • And you're very encouraged
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  • By what you see in the hispanic community.
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  • A turning to the lord. tell us more about that.
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  • Oh, you know, you would assume for a second
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  • That this and flow
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  • That somehow
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  • There would be inevitable downslide
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  • Pray that we were going to be sliding down the bonito,
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  • That the ladder up.
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  • We've reached the apex.
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  • It's time to calm down.
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  • No generation z latinos, especially males,
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  • Are coming to jesus.
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  • In record breaking numbers.
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  • There is hunger.
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  • Hunger for truth, hunger for righteousness, hunger
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  • For love, a hunger for transformation,
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  • Hunger for discipleship,
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  • A hunger for orthodoxy, for orthodoxy, for sacraments.
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  • So there is a coming back to god.
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  • Come even back to the church,
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  • Coming back to the faith of our fathers.
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  • And we're seeing it in the latino community,
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  • In generation z, in record breaking numbers.
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  • My church is sacramento, is bright.
  • 00:19:56.445 --> 00:19:58.648
  • It's 68% generation z, millennial.
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  • Generation z is taking over.
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  • So there is hunger indeed.
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  • Yeah. pastor sam, this is so encouraging.
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  • And by the way, look, we had a state of the union
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  • Address the other night.
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  • President trump, in my view, with a barnburner.
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  • I think it was one of the best speeches he's ever given.
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  • And he hit all the bases.
  • 00:20:15.665 --> 00:20:16.899
  • But as a christian, as a follower of jesus watching
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  • That speech, what should the big takeaways be for us?
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  • Yeah, know a number of things.
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  • His commitment,
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  • The affirmation of our judeo-christian values
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  • System and affirmation of traditional values
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  • Laid out throughout the speech.
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  • The celebration of military heroes
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  • Who would literally have sacrificed their lives
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  • For protecting our god given right.
  • 00:20:37.453 --> 00:20:40.022
  • When he spoke about the angel
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  • Angel families,
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  • All of that was absolutely
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  • The fact that he was pointing to others.
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  • By the way, to act of humility.
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  • He would point to others.
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  • It became about others.
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  • I am saddened to see the lack of a reconciliatory prescription
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  • And broke my heart
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  • That the other side of the aisle couldn't
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  • Stand up,
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  • Affirming the fact that children shouldn't be mutilated, right?
  • 00:21:00.343 --> 00:21:03.346
  • And affirming the fact
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  • That the priorities in america should be u.s.
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  • Citizens and not illegal immigrants.
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  • And broke my heart, i pray.
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  • I pray that both those that follow the donkey
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  • And the elephant will just bow before the presence of the lamb
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  • And have a come to jesus moment. amen.
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  • Pastor sam, speaking of prayer,
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  • Can you take us out in one look?
  • 00:21:21.664 --> 00:21:22.865
  • We're talking
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  • Mexico, minnesota division, some very heavy topics.
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  • Can you take us out in prayer for our nation?
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  • Heavenly father, thank you.
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  • As we celebrate,
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  • Commemorate 250 years of this exceptional nation
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  • Undergirded by a judeo-christian value system that cannot
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  • And will not be denied.
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  • We thank you for the finished work of christ.
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  • We thank you
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  • That this nation will once again experience an awakening
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  • From sea to shining sea.
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  • Thank you for life
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  • And liberty, for enabling us to pursue happiness
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  • For the glory of your name.
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  • Bless us indeed.
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  • In jesus name we pray.
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  • Amen. pastor sam, always great to be with you.
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  • Keep up the great work folks!
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  • Follow him instagram x.
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  • Across social media, pastor sam rodriguez god bless my friend.
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  • We will see you again soon.
  • 00:22:08.744 --> 00:22:09.979
  • And coming up after the break, my final thoughts on
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  • You know what?
  • 00:22:13.449 --> 00:22:14.517
  • You really can't stop the gospel.
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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, folks.
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  • As we wrap up here, i'd like to say that
  • 00:22:25.825 --> 00:22:27.827
  • You can't stop the gospel because you can.
  • 00:22:27.827 --> 00:22:30.830
  • But as believers, as followers of jesus,
  • 00:22:30.830 --> 00:22:34.100
  • We need to be willing and able to share the gospel.
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  • I think of the words of jesus,
  • 00:22:36.969 --> 00:22:38.504
  • Gospel of matthew, chapter 28, verses 19 and 20.
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  • Therefore jesus said, go and make disciples of all nations.
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  • Go, he said, baptizing them in the name of the father,
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  • And of the son, and of the holy spirit,
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  • And teaching them to obey everything i have commanded you.
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  • And surely i am with you always to the very end of the age.
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  • We serve a very proactive god, and we have a very proactive
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  • Faith as followers of jesus.
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  • So he those words go make disciples
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  • In your neighborhood and work among your family.
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  • Now is the time, yet time is short.
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  • Hey, great programs coming up for you next week.
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  • We're watching iran.
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  • The situation there very closely.
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  • Until then, have a great weekend.
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  • God bless you. this is.
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