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: February 25, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight | February 25, 2026
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck
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- And there was
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- One moment from last night's epic state of the union address
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- That really drove home where we are right now
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- As a nation, and what we would face
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- If the left ever gets power again.
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- President trump posed a very simple question who comes first?
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- U.s. citizens or illegal aliens?
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- Now, one side responded by choosing americans
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- And the other side.
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- Well, see for yourself.
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- If you agree with this statement,
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- Then stand up and show your support.
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- The first duty of the american government
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- Is to protect american citizens, not illegal
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- Aliens.
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- American citizens
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- Or illegal aliens a no brainer.
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- And not one democrat would stand for putting u.s.
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- Citizens first.
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- Folks, this is not your granddaddy's democrat party.
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- The days of fdr, truman, and jfk are long gone.
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- In its place,
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- We have a group of people who refuse to stand and applaud
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- For even the most common sense proposals, like
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- Ending the gender mutilation of children.
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- Watch.
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- But surely we can all agree.
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- No state can be allowed to
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- Rip children from their parent's arms and transition
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- Them to a new gender against the parent's will.
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- Who would believe that?
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- We're even talking about
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- How we must ban it, and we must ban it immediately?
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- Nobody stands up.
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- These people are crazy.
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- I'm telling you, they're crazy.
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- You gotta admit, supporting sex change surgeries
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- For minors or anyone for that matter is pretty crazy.
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- So is not acknowledging the grieving mother of ukrainian
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- Refugee irina's roots,
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- Who was murdered on a light rail train in charlotte back
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- In august by a career criminal who should not have been
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- On the streets in the first place,
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- But who had been released because of leftist policies.
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- Watch mrs. zaretsky tonight.
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- I promise you,
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- We will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter.
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- I read.
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- How do you not stand?
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- Amen.
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- How do you not stand for that grieving mother?
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- But it was like that all night.
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- Many democrats didn't even stand and applaud
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- When president trump introduced the gold medal winning u.s.
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- Men's hockey team as chants of usa broke out in the chamber.
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- At least they stood
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- When the president awarded a purple heart and two
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- Congressional medal of honor
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- To three of our brave current and former u.s.
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- Service members in the audience.
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- Even dems knew
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- It would be bad optics to sit on their hands for that.
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- But the damage was already done, and the true face of the left
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- Was exposed last night for the entire nation to see.
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- Americans also saw trump lay out an impressive series
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- Of accomplishments during his speech,
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- Including the most secure southern border in our history,
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- Record low murder rates,
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- And a sharp decline in inflation,
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- All in his first 13 months back in office.
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- But somalian muslim congresswoman ilhan omar
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- And her palestinian colleague rashida tlaib
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- Were none
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- Too happy about all of this, especially when trump talked
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- About deporting violent illegal aliens.
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- Take a look.
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- You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up.
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- You should be ashamed of yourself.
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- That is why i'm also asking you
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- To end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals
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- And enact serious penalties for public officials
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- Who block the removal of criminal aliens.
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- In many cases, drug lords murders all over our country.
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- They're blocking the removal of these people
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- Out of our country.
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- And you should be ashamed of yourself.
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- The problem
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- Is, these people have no shame to leave.
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- Was even wearing a pin that said bleep ice
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- To the state of the union.
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- Very classy.
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- Now, president trump also talked of his decision to destroy
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- Iran's nuclear weapons program back in june.
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- And as u.s.
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- Forces mass in the middle east right now
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- For a potential strike, he warned that iran's
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- Regime is up to its old tricks and more.
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- Watch.
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- And just over the last couple of months with the protests
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- They've killed, at least it looks like 32,000 protests,
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- 32,000 protesters in their own country.
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- They shot them and hung them.
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- We stopped them from hanging,
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- A lot of them with the threat of serious violence.
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- But this is
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- Some terrible people.
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- They've already developed missiles
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- That can threaten europe and our bases overseas,
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- And they're working to build missiles
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- That will soon reach the united states of america.
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- After midnight, hammer,
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- They were
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- Warned to make no future attempts to rebuild
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- Their weapons program in a particular nuclear weapons.
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- Yet they continue.
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- Starting it all over.
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- We wiped it out, and they want to start all over again
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- And are at this moment again pursuing their sinister
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- Ambitions.
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- Folks, it seems to me that
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- The moment of reckoning has arrived for iran's regime.
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- So will the president order
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- A strike on iran and what comes next?
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- National security expert cliff may joins us to break it down.
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- That's coming up.
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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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- The middle east is on the brink right now.
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- But if the iranian regime falls, what happens
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- To the iranian people into the region as a whole?
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- Joining us now to break it down is our good friend,
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- President and founder of the foundation
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- For the defense of democracies in washington, d.c..
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- Cliff may. cliff, always great to see you.
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- You and i were talking off camera,
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- And i thought that president trump mentioning iran's
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- Missile program and in particular iran building
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- Missiles that could reach the united states,
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- Was a significant moment.
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- Can you tell us more about those iranian icbms
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- And why they're such a threat to the united states?
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- Yes. and icbm, as you know, erick means
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- An intercontinental ballistic missile.
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- Well, what continent does he have in mind that he wants?
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- Not the continent.
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- He's on i and i'm talking about
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- Supreme leader, the dictator, ayatollah ali khamenei.
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- He's thinking about, well, death to america,
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- Which has been the chant, the vow,
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- The policy of the regime since 1979,
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- When the islamic revolution took place.
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- So if he has nuclear weapons and he has intercontinental
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- Ballistic missiles,
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- He can threaten any city he wants to.
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- In the united states, we have some missile defenses,
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- I would say, and i know the president believes
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- We don't have enough.
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- That's why he's talked about building
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- What he calls the golden dome, which would be a much stronger,
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- Missile defense system.
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- Yeah.
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- And look,
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- The iranian regime, according to president trump
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- Last night, cliff in his state of the union
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- Address, is actively working to restart their nuclear program
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- After obviously, operation midnight hammer
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- Back in june destroyed iranian nuclear sites.
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- How active is iran in that?
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- Do they still have a stockpile
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- Of enriched uranium they can use?
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- What kind of progress, god forbid,
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- Are they making towards restarting that nuclear program?
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- We don't know exactly.
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- The best experts would would tell you.
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- Don't forget the highly enriched uranium.
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- Even if you bomb, it doesn't disappear.
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- You can dig it up and then you can utilize it again.
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- Fordo was one of the nuclear weapons sites under a mountain
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- That president trump hit using b-2 stealth bombers
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- And massive, penetrating bombs.
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- But there's something called pickax mountain,
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- Where it appears they are digging even deeper.
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- And where it appears they would like
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- To have a nuclear facility that might not even, be susceptible
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- To b-2 bombers and massive ordnance penetrators.
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- So the regime has its ambitions.
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- These ambitions are theological.
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- These ambitions are islamist.
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- They're part of jihad, and they're the.
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- They do not seem prepared to give that up.
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- If you're ayatollah ali khamenei,
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- 86, going on 87, this is his life's work.
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- But i say life, work. i mean the islamic revolution.
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- He is not about to give that up easily.
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- He's not about to say we don't need nuclear weapons.
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- We don't need icbms.
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- We have no enemies as long as we're not threatening anybody.
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- All i want to do is get the best darn health care system.
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- And the people of my country that i possibly can.
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- That's not who he is or where he is.
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- His psychology
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- Is not the psychology of your neighbors and mine.
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- Yeah, and it's something the western mind, by and large,
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- Cannot understand.
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- He's a true fanatical jihadist ideologue, cliff.
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- And there's a very good chance, as you said, he'll try to
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- Go out in a blaze of glory if he sees the walls closing in.
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- The regime president trump has laid out needs to give up.
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- Obviously, its nuclear program, the ballistic missile program,
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- Its support for proxies in the region.
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- Iran says we're not doing any of that.
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- Another round of talks tomorrow,
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- Between the trump administration and the regime.
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- But it seems like military action may be inevitable here.
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- Cliff can talk a bit more about the significance
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- Of the massive u.s.
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- Military buildup at iran's doorstep.
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- It doesn't seem coincidental.
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- I agree with this.
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- What planet is going to throw in when they come back to,
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- The negotiations, which are, by the way, important to say
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- They're not they have not been direct negotiations.
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- The iranians don't want to deign to sit down, in the same room
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- Over at the same table with the infidels.
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- But when they come back, what they will talk about
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- Is their right to enrich.
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- Now, going on to your question, the president has amassed
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- A huge amount of military hardware, in the region.
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- He has some very good advisors, who are coming up with options
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- That he can utilize, that he can choose from
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- In terms of what he wants to do. very hard to predict.
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- One thing that's certainly possible
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- Is that out of the target bank, as we say,
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- He says, let's pick out, i don't know, the navy.
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- Let's take out these launchers.
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- Let's take out where we think they are.
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- Intercontinental ballistic missiles they have are
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- And we can talk about other targets as well.
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- And then i'll go back to the ayatollah and say, are you sure
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- You don't want to reconsider and maybe make a deal with me?
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- But as i think you've indicated, i hope people appreciate this.
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- Yeah.
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- A deal is the euphemism for the regime,
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- This anti-american jihadist regime.
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- Bowing to president trump's demands.
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- That's what it has to be.
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- You don't people say, can't you have diplomacy and compromise?
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- Their demand is death to america.
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- Our demand is america lives.
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- I don't think you want to split the difference here.
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- No, cliff, about 45 seconds left.
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- You and your team
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- Have done a better job than anyone over the decades
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- Of drawing,
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- A drawing a attention to the iranian people,
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- The plight of the iranian people.
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- President trump mentioned it last night.
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- This would be a new day for the iranian people.
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- About 30s.
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- Can you tell us what the fall, the downfall of this regime
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- Would mean for the great people of iran?
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- The great people of iran.
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- They have lived through this
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- Terrible experiment of being ruled by, islamists,
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- Being ruled by jihadis, being having a ruling class
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- That is a theological class, a theocracy.
- 00:12:45.963 --> 00:12:48.866
- They know it doesn't work. i would say.
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- I don't think
- 00:12:50.901 --> 00:12:52.035
- It's a rough guess, but 80% of them are sick of this.
- 00:12:52.035 --> 00:12:55.239
- Doesn't mean it's going to be easy to establish
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- A decent society, but it can certainly be better
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- Than what they've been living under here.
- 00:13:00.878 --> 00:13:02.746
- This the the, the theologians who the the theocratic.
- 00:13:02.746 --> 00:13:07.384
- They're not just evil.
- 00:13:07.384 --> 00:13:08.852
- They're not.
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- They've killed thousands,
- 00:13:09.486 --> 00:13:10.487
- Maybe tens of thousands of peaceful protesters.
- 00:13:10.487 --> 00:13:13.023
- And the economy is in is in terrible shape.
- 00:13:13.023 --> 00:13:16.093
- They're incompetent as well as fanatical.
- 00:13:16.093 --> 00:13:18.528
- And i'll i'll end up there. yeah.
- 00:13:18.528 --> 00:13:20.864
- Well, put a cliff as always, folks.
- 00:13:20.864 --> 00:13:22.532
- No one does it better.
- 00:13:22.532 --> 00:13:23.467
- Our good friend cliff may check him out
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- Across social media and at fedora.
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- Cliff. god bless. great work. we'll see you again soon.
- 00:13:27.638 --> 00:13:30.073
- And coming up after the break, islamic sharia law,
- 00:13:30.073 --> 00:13:33.577
- It's fundamentally incompatible with western civilization.
- 00:13:33.577 --> 00:13:36.480
- But is it coming to america?
- 00:13:36.480 --> 00:13:38.782
- A disturbing update on that after the break.
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- Don't move.
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- Don't move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
- 00:13:51.194 --> 00:13:53.096
- Texas has become ground zero for the battle against islamic
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- Sharia law. yes, texas.
- 00:13:57.701 --> 00:14:00.270
- And an important proposition sits in the hands of texas
- 00:14:00.270 --> 00:14:03.173
- Voters next month to ban sharia law statewide.
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- Our next guest was
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- One of the first to raise a red flag
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- About the rise of islam in america.
- 00:14:10.414 --> 00:14:12.616
- Our good friend frank gaffney,
- 00:14:12.616 --> 00:14:14.017
- President of the institute for the american future
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- And host of the securing america show on real america's voice.
- 00:14:16.520 --> 00:14:20.023
- Frank, always great to see you.
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- And when people think of texas,
- 00:14:21.925 --> 00:14:23.327
- They think doesn't get any more american than that.
- 00:14:23.327 --> 00:14:25.896
- The reddest of the red and yet islam
- 00:14:25.896 --> 00:14:28.865
- Making major inroads in the lone star state.
- 00:14:28.865 --> 00:14:32.235
- 48 mosques in 24 months in dallas fort worth alone.
- 00:14:32.235 --> 00:14:36.773
- Tell us why you started the save texas save america campaign
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- And what your goals are.
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- Well, it's a team effort.
- 00:14:42.546 --> 00:14:43.480
- Let me be clear about that.
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- A lot of texans are engaged in a erick because,
- 00:14:44.748 --> 00:14:49.052
- As you say, they now recognize that texas
- 00:14:49.052 --> 00:14:52.956
- Is being targeted by what i call sharia supremacists.
- 00:14:52.956 --> 00:14:57.194
- People who are either here already or are moving here
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- For the purposes of taking texas down,
- 00:15:01.832 --> 00:15:05.469
- And thereby
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- Setting the stage for doing the same to the country.
- 00:15:07.070 --> 00:15:09.306
- As texas goes, so goes the nation.
- 00:15:09.306 --> 00:15:11.208
- I think it's actually true.
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- And in this case, we're going to put it to the test.
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- And i'm so appreciative of you.
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- You know, calling attention in particular to a
- 00:15:17.447 --> 00:15:19.983
- The need to be voting on this is, early
- 00:15:19.983 --> 00:15:23.086
- Voting is underway as we speak for another day or two.
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- But then march 3rd is the day.
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- And what we're seeking is at the very, very,
- 00:15:29.159 --> 00:15:32.863
- Very end of a long ballot.
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- I think it's like 24in double sign.
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- The last proposition, proposition ten,
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- Is just five words long.
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- Texas should prohibit sharia law.
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- Yeah.
- 00:15:46.076 --> 00:15:47.244
- And that really captures exactly what has to happen here.
- 00:15:47.244 --> 00:15:50.814
- Ben. sharia.com is the website we've created
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- For this campaign to save texas, save america
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- In the hope that we will find enough voters
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- Resonating with all of this, that it translates
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- Into political momentum going into the fall.
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- Yeah,
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- Both in this state
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- And across the country, because banning
- 00:16:09.933 --> 00:16:11.435
- Sharia is essential because if we don't,
- 00:16:11.435 --> 00:16:14.237
- Sharia will ban freedom.
- 00:16:14.771 --> 00:16:16.373
- Yeah.
- 00:16:16.373 --> 00:16:17.441
- And some people may be watching and saying, well,
- 00:16:17.441 --> 00:16:18.575
- What's so bad about islamic sharia law?
- 00:16:18.575 --> 00:16:21.278
- You know, it's fundamentally incompatible with the u.s.
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- Constitution, with judeo-christian civilization.
- 00:16:24.481 --> 00:16:27.084
- But tell us more about the goals and the reality
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- Of an islamic sharia run society.
- 00:16:30.620 --> 00:16:34.157
- Very simply, it's about conquest.
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- It is about forcing submission.
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- There's the literal meaning of the word islam.
- 00:16:39.129 --> 00:16:41.098
- As you know.
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- And by so doing, eliminating impediments
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- To the ultimate global conquest of the world.
- 00:16:46.670 --> 00:16:50.974
- And what?
- 00:16:51.274 --> 00:16:52.476
- Don't take my word for it.
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- This is what we have 1400 years of experience with,
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- All throughout western civilization
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- And now truly globally.
- 00:17:00.851 --> 00:17:02.419
- And what they are trying to do.
- 00:17:02.419 --> 00:17:04.387
- Make no mistake about it, is, yes,
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- You know, destroy israel. yes.
- 00:17:08.225 --> 00:17:10.360
- Take over in europe and latin america and asia and. yes.
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- Eliminate the united states as an impediment to
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- Their agenda.
- 00:17:20.103 --> 00:17:21.638
- But ultimately, as you've said so
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- Clearly in so many different ways,
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- Erick and i really want to commend you
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- For the attention you've put on this for years as well.
- 00:17:26.409 --> 00:17:29.880
- They want to destroy the judeo-christian civilization.
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- It's it's antithetical, yes, to our constitution.
- 00:17:33.316 --> 00:17:36.520
- But everything in the bible, everything, basically,
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- That we believe in and hold dear is by design
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- What they're trying to eliminate.
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- Yeah.
- 00:17:45.328 --> 00:17:46.363
- And america really is the last line of defense,
- 00:17:46.363 --> 00:17:47.831
- Frank, for that civilization.
- 00:17:47.831 --> 00:17:49.366
- So, of course,
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- There's a bullseye on our backs, courtesy of the islamists.
- 00:17:50.567 --> 00:17:53.703
- Do you get the sense in your time here
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- In texas that the average texan is catching on
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- And the average american,
- 00:17:57.340 --> 00:17:58.441
- They see what's happening in europe across the pond,
- 00:17:58.441 --> 00:18:01.044
- The madness in places like france and the uk.
- 00:18:01.044 --> 00:18:03.980
- And is that a wake up call for americans?
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- Are they starting to catch on about the true goals
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- Of sharia supremacist and islamists?
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- This is a
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- Generalization, but i would say everyone who knows
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- What's going on is now waking up and is terrified of it
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- And actively becoming engaged in many cases in the fight.
- 00:18:20.497 --> 00:18:24.501
- Yeah.
- 00:18:24.734 --> 00:18:25.802
- And when i say fight, i mean, you know, in a non
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- Kinetic sense of the word, but war of ideas that jihadis
- 00:18:28.805 --> 00:18:33.276
- Are moving
- 00:18:33.276 --> 00:18:34.477
- Inexorably in the direction of going where they always go,
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- Because the perfect man, muhammad, taught
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- That the most efficient way to achieve
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- The goal of conquest is, of course, the violent kind.
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- And he exercised it himself, and they are called to emulate it.
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- So the biggest challenge we face, eric, quite frankly, is
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- Not every texan knows about this thing.
- 00:18:55.966 --> 00:18:59.202
- So probably you're not paying much attention
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- To what's going on in europe
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- And how fast this is truly metastasizing there.
- 00:19:02.272 --> 00:19:06.643
- But they're equally clueless about the fact
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- That it's here at all, let alone that we are rapidly
- 00:19:09.179 --> 00:19:12.349
- Catching up with europe because it's the same playbook.
- 00:19:12.349 --> 00:19:15.986
- It's the same agenda, and it's in many cases,
- 00:19:15.986 --> 00:19:18.855
- The same jihadists who are perpetrating it. frank.
- 00:19:18.855 --> 00:19:21.224
- So well said.
- 00:19:21.224 --> 00:19:22.092
- And it's not just texas, it's dearborn.
- 00:19:22.092 --> 00:19:24.427
- It's virginia, it's new york city,
- 00:19:24.427 --> 00:19:26.563
- Where zoran mamdani, islamo communist, is now mayor.
- 00:19:26.563 --> 00:19:30.333
- Speaking of which, we've got this unholy alliance.
- 00:19:30.333 --> 00:19:33.336
- It seems we've got the islamist obviously making major inroads.
- 00:19:33.336 --> 00:19:36.473
- But many times,
- 00:19:36.840 --> 00:19:38.041
- Frank, it seems, are working hand in glove with the left.
- 00:19:38.041 --> 00:19:40.844
- If you talk more about that, how the left is in a very short
- 00:19:40.844 --> 00:19:43.613
- Sighted way, by the way, aiding and abetting this rise of
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- Islamists here in america.
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- Yeah, i actually describe it as a totalitarian trifecta,
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- Because in addition to the communists
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- Led by the chinese communists, of course,
- 00:19:55.925 --> 00:19:58.695
- You have also the globalists, eric,
- 00:19:58.695 --> 00:20:01.598
- Secular elites who also think they ought to rule the world,
- 00:20:01.598 --> 00:20:07.037
- As do the communists, as do the sharia supremacists.
- 00:20:07.037 --> 00:20:10.807
- And they've got different ideas as to how that's going to look,
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- Who's going to be in charge.
- 00:20:13.510 --> 00:20:15.078
- But for the moment, they're making common cause
- 00:20:15.078 --> 00:20:17.080
- Because we're the impediment to all of their objectives.
- 00:20:17.080 --> 00:20:20.016
- And once that's the case, we're all gone.
- 00:20:20.016 --> 00:20:24.020
- You can bet they'll be at each other's throats.
- 00:20:24.020 --> 00:20:26.156
- But in the meantime, ours will have been split.
- 00:20:26.156 --> 00:20:28.491
- Yeah. no doubt.
- 00:20:28.491 --> 00:20:29.492
- And the islamists are playing for keeps.
- 00:20:29.492 --> 00:20:31.494
- As we know you said earlier, frank, 1400 years of history
- 00:20:31.494 --> 00:20:34.597
- Tells us that wave after wave of jihad against the west.
- 00:20:34.597 --> 00:20:38.468
- Break it down a bit more for us, frank.
- 00:20:38.468 --> 00:20:40.170
- The stakes of march 3rd.
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- It's coming up early voting still two days, i believe.
- 00:20:41.738 --> 00:20:44.107
- Left of early voting here in texas.
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- And there is similar legislation,
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- I believe, in oklahoma that's being proposed right now.
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- Other states are catching on.
- 00:20:49.846 --> 00:20:51.114
- We need to ban islamic sharia law.
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- It's not compatible with u.s.
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- Civilization, the constitution.
- 00:20:55.185 --> 00:20:57.053
- We've got a minute left, a bit more on the stakes.
- 00:20:57.053 --> 00:20:59.255
- What's at stake on march 3rd?
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- This very important vote here in texas.
- 00:21:00.924 --> 00:21:03.293
- I think nothing less than the trajectory of this state
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- For the days to come.
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- The days, months, years.
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- And i want i just want to bring it home to people with is eric.
- 00:21:10.967 --> 00:21:14.537
- This isn't just about us, our generation.
- 00:21:14.537 --> 00:21:18.575
- What we're looking at, if they succeed, will be
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- Passing on to our children and our children's children
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- An america that is unrecognizable,
- 00:21:25.882 --> 00:21:28.017
- That is not free, that enslaves them, in fact,
- 00:21:28.017 --> 00:21:31.388
- And possibly kills them outright.
- 00:21:31.388 --> 00:21:34.424
- So if you don't think this is a problem for you, be mindful
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- That it is
- 00:21:38.728 --> 00:21:39.963
- Something that they will inherit if we don't get this right.
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- So it's vital and i encourage people
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- To learn more and take action,
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- Volunteer, contribute if they can at bam sharia.com.
- 00:21:46.503 --> 00:21:50.306
- Yeah frank, great work that you're doing.
- 00:21:50.306 --> 00:21:52.409
- As always, if the lights go out in texas,
- 00:21:52.409 --> 00:21:54.277
- The lights go out in america.
- 00:21:54.277 --> 00:21:55.478
- And if the lights go out in america,
- 00:21:55.478 --> 00:21:56.946
- The lights go out for the entire west.
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- Frank gaffney, always great to see my friend.
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- Folks, be sure to follow frank x across social media.
- 00:22:00.750 --> 00:22:03.720
- See the links there.
- 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:04.387
- Check out the campaign
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- To save texas and save america at band sharia.com.
- 00:22:05.455 --> 00:22:09.426
- March 3rd is the vote texans.
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- You still have time.
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- Coming up, my final thoughts on what the bible says
- 00:22:13.296 --> 00:22:16.699
- About the islamic challenge to america.
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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.
- 00:22:30.748 --> 00:22:32.049
- And like, great conversation there.
- 00:22:32.049 --> 00:22:33.417
- An alarming conversation, but very necessary
- 00:22:33.417 --> 00:22:35.586
- With our good friend frank gaffney
- 00:22:35.586 --> 00:22:36.954
- About the advance of islam in the united states
- 00:22:36.954 --> 00:22:39.457
- And throughout the western world.
- 00:22:39.457 --> 00:22:40.758
- Folks, it really boils down to this
- 00:22:40.758 --> 00:22:43.227
- The words of jesus in john 14 verse six,
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- I am the way and the truth and the life.
- 00:22:46.497 --> 00:22:49.567
- No one comes to the father except through me.
- 00:22:49.567 --> 00:22:54.772
- This nation was founded by christian men,
- 00:22:54.772 --> 00:22:57.041
- Godly men who believe that principle that jesus laid out.
- 00:22:57.041 --> 00:23:00.511
- We need to continue to put that first and foremost in any
- 00:23:00.511 --> 00:23:04.148
- Kind of civilizational challenge we face will be defeated
- 00:23:04.148 --> 00:23:07.785
- If god if jesus is at the center
- 00:23:07.785 --> 00:23:10.921
- Of our nation, hate tomorrow night two hammers, josh hammer
- 00:23:10.921 --> 00:23:14.658
- And the man known as the hebrew hammer, congressman randy fine.
- 00:23:14.658 --> 00:23:18.095
- It's 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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