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Erick Stakelbeck: February 3, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight

February 3, 2026 | 23:29

In a gripping episode of Stakelbeck Tonight, host Erick Stakelbeck delves into the controversial issues surrounding ICE operations, voter ID laws, and the Iranian regime's hostile actions. With insights from guest Dr. Sebastian Gorka, a senior counterterrorism expert, the discussion heats up as they tackle the threats posed by criminal illegal aliens, the Muslim Brotherhood, and the delicate situation in Cuba. With a focus on common sense solutions and the push for law and order, the episode resonates with the importance of standing up for truth and protecting American interests at home and abroad.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: February 3, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight | February 3, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck.
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And if you listen to the mainstream media or democrat
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Leaders,
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You might think that all ice agents are very bad people.
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Modern day nazis, even gestapo agents tearing innocent
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Families apart and terrorizing communities nationwide.
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That's the narrative you're getting from the left.
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Night after night.
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But what do the american people, as a whole think of the
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Ongoing ice operations in places like minneapolis, operations
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That have apprehended convicted murderers, rapists
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And pedophiles, all of whom are in the united states illegally?
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New polls from signal show that a large majority, 73%
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Of potential midterm voters, believe that criminal illegal
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Aliens should be deported to their country of origin.
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Further, 67% want state and local officials
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To cooperate with federal authorities
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To deport criminal illegal aliens.
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That means you, tim walz and jacob frey.
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Your incitement against ice agents is not going over
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Well with the
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Majority of american people who want law and order.
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That's a big reason
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President trump won the 2024 election in a landslide.
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Could it be that democrats are fighting
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Tooth and nail against deportations
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Because it would cost them votes?
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You know, from the countless millions of people
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They let into the country illegally under joe biden.
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Here's senate
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Minority leader chuck schumer laying out the plan.
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Amnesty essentially blanket citizenship
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For all illegal aliens.
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Watch short of workers.
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We have a
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Population that is not reproducing it
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On its own with the same level that it used to.
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The only way we're going to have a great future in america
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Is if we welcome
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And embrace immigrants, the dreamers, and all of them,
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Because our ultimate goal is to help the dreamers,
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But get a path to citizenship for all 11 million or however
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Many undocumented there are here.
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First of all, there is a lot more
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Than 11 million undocumented migrants in america.
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Joe biden alone let more than that in over four years.
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And there's also a big difference between
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Legal immigration and illegal immigration.
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The trump administration wants to stop illegal immigration,
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Not people who come here legally and do things the right way.
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This is not hard to understand.
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That's why the administration wants to pass the save act,
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Which requires anyone voting to show proper identification
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At the polls. that seems reasonable.
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You need to show id
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To board a plane, get a library card, or get served a beer.
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So surely you should need proper identification to vote
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For, say, the president of the united states.
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Democrats, though, call voter id laws racist
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And a return to jim crow.
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Maybe the real reason they don't want people to show
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Id is because all of
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Those undocumented migrants who they let into the country,
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Who are not u.s.
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Citizens, could then vote for democrats.
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Yet once again, the left is out of step
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With the american people of every race and background.
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Cnn, of all places, laid out the numbers.
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Watch.
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Take a look here.
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Favorite photo id to vote?
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85% of white people. favorite.
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82% of latino.
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76% of black americans. favorite.
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So the bottom line is this
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Voter id is not controversial in this country.
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A photo id to vote is not controversial in this country.
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It is not controversial by party,
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And it is not controversial by race.
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The vast majority of americans agree with nicki minaj
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That, in fact, you should have a photo id to be able to vote.
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Now, do you see why the
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Left is so opposed to border security?
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Deporting illegal aliens and requiring voters to show id?
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Because those three things
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Will severely limit their potential pool of voters.
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While the trump
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Administration deals with a left wing insurrection in places
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Like minneapolis, portland and l.a., it's also dealing
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With a potential showdown with the iranian regime. u.s.
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Forces shot down an iranian drone
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In the persian gulf today as it approached a u.s.
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Aircraft carrier,
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And iranian gunboats attempted to harass a u.s.
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Flag tanker in the strait of hormuz.
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Things are clearly heating up, and doctor sebastian gorka,
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The trump administration's senior director
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For counterterrorism, is here to break it all down.
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Next.
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The iranian regime is on the brink.
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President trump has vowed major consequences for iran's mullahs
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If they do not agree to a deal with the united states.
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Meanwhile, here at home, the left continues
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To attack and demonize ice agents.
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It's a dangerous moment, and president trump and his team
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Are working around the clock to make america
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Safer and more secure, both at home and abroad.
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We're joined now by a key member of that team, doctor
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Sebastian gorka, deputy assistant to president trump
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And senior director for counterterrorism
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At the national security council.
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He joins us now from the white house.
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Director gorka, always great to see you.
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Hey, this past weekend marked the 47th anniversary
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Of the ayatollah khomeini returning to iran from exile.
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And now doctor gorka.
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Half a century practically later,
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The iranian regime has never been weaker,
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It seems, are teetering on the brink.
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What part is the weakening of the regime?
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How much can we attribute to president trump using peace
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Through strength and using the leverage
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To again, put the ayatollahs on the ropes?
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Well, i think there's two
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Key factors or contributors to the current reality
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Of the murderous mullahs regime being on the brink, as you say,
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And that's the brave people of persia, the iranians
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And others, the minorities included,
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Who are standing up for their rights,
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Who want to see the end of that absolutely
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Tragically murderous regime.
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But even more than that, it's the president. why?
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Because we don't have obama or biden in the white house
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Literally sending pallets of cash to the regime.
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We don't acquiesce to the mullahs and to their demands
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With the jcpoa iran deal.
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No, the president takes action when he sees a national security
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Threat to the united states.
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He was very clear in that letter.
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We can now openly talk about it at the beginning
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Of his administration that he sent to the ayatollah,
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He said, we will not permit you to acquire nuclear weapons.
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And secondly, we will not permit you
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To continue
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To fund and support deadly proxies across the region.
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And the decisive acts such as midnight hammer.
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It's primarily the president.
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Peace through strength.
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And also,
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God bless them, the brave people of the nation of persia.
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Yeah.
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I mean, this is the first time
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In 47 years that this regime is really being held accountable.
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And by the way, director
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Gorka, look, some are saying, well, iran's
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Not a direct threat to the united states.
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Can you break down for everyone how iran is very much
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A threat to the u.s..
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And i think, first and foremost, those assassination plots
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The regime hatched
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Against president trump in the run up to the 2024 election.
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Yeah, they're
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You know, given that i work here in the terrorism
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Directorate is mostly in the classified arena,
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There are limits to what i can share.
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But if you're going to open source, if you go into,
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You know, the public information that's available out there,
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You can talk about
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The hundreds of americans who were killed by iran.
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That is why president trump
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Took out
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Soleimani, general soleimani, in that exquisite operation
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During the first trump
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Administration, because not only of the hundreds
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Of american servicemen who were killed
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By the iranian regime and its affiliates and its proxies.
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But because of the 600 u.s.
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Servicemen and women he was planning to kill
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As the man in charge of the iranian proxies in the region.
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But you're absolutely right.
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It's not just about things happening
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Thousands of miles away to our servicemen.
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It's also about the plots here in the united states, plots
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That we know, we're targeting leaders, key members
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Of the first trump administration
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And also dissidents, iranian dissidents
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On the streets of the united states, jewish americans.
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Likewise, the israelis.
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So the fact is, the threat of iran is a global threat.
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And i'll just state this.
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The democrat state department stated this years ago,
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Iran is the number one state sponsor of terrorism.
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I've traveled the region
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Since i became senior director of counterterrorism.
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Every time i scratch
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A terrorist threat, whether i'm in lebanon,
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Whether i'm in iraq or anywhere else, i see what.
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Soon enough, the hands of iran
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And the mullahs and the regime, the irgc,
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Yes, the quds force is usually the basis
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Of all the serious threats in the region.
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And when it comes to terrorism writ large.
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So true.
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The head of the snake, no doubt, when it comes to global jihad.
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And another major player going back decades, of course,
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Is the muslim brotherhood in that regard.
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Now, president trump recently designated several muslim
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Brotherhood branches as terror organizations.
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Ban them. essentially.
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Director gorka, tell us why that was such an important move.
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Yeah.
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Please go and read.
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You know, if you missed this tectonically historic moment,
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Read my piece in, bright.
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But just two weeks ago, read the president's executive order.
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It was one of my team members
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That drafted this for the president.
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Should have happened decades ago.
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No president had the spine to do this.
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The muslim brotherhood
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Is the progenitor of all modern jihadi organizations.
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From 1928 forward, including al-qaeda, isis and hamas.
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The president has designated the original egyptian chapter
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As a foreign terrorist organization,
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Including the jordanian chapter as well, and the lebanese.
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It's just the beginning
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For all those people out there who, fake maga
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And who wish to criticize the president.
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He took historic action.
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This is phase one.
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Phase two will include more chapters,
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But it should have happened decades ago.
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But we have to wait for president trump
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To take this act, which opens a whole panoply of weapons
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To scott beasant
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At the treasury, to pam bondi, at the doj,
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And to everyone else who's working
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Counter terrorism across the united states government.
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But only because of president trump's decisive action.
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It's a major historic move, no doubt.
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As you said,
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The brotherhood is really
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The granddaddy of them all
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When it comes to islamic terror groups.
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Much more coming up
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With the senior director for counterterrorism
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At the national security council, doctor sebastian gorka.
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What about the madness in minneapolis?
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Ice agents being attacked, demonized by radical leftist.
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Much more to break down on that
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With director gorka 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 talk to the senior director for counterterrorism
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At the national security council, deputy
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Assistant to president trump, doctor sebastian gorka.
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We see madness right now. director gorka.
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And it seems to me to be a pretty legitimate terror
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Threat as well,
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Not only a criminal action, but these are
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These are domestic terrorists who are attacking ice agents
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And coordinating,
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It seems very closely in minneapolis and other cities,
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The american people voted for criminal illegals
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To be deported.
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That's exactly what president trump is doing.
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What isis doing?
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Can you talk more about the madness
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We're seeing in the streets
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And what the administration is doing to get a handle on that?
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So let me just reiterate what you just said.
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Almost two thirds of the us population, that's more
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Than voted for the president when he won the election.
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Wish to see all illegals deported?
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Not just the rapists, not just the human traffickers.
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The child molesters.
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All illegals removed from the country.
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What you're seeing right now
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Is, is the ripping off of the mask of the left.
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When you have democrat politicians, leaders, activists,
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Billionaires funding the demonstrations
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And saying, well, these people are all americans
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And have a right to be here,
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Or they're attacking and organizing
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On these signal chat message boards.
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The aggravated actions that are meant to demoralize
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The ice agents to make the work of hsa and cbp the impossible.
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You see what the left has become?
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They're on the side of these groups.
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They're on the side of the cartels.
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We are on the side of america and americans
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Of the innocent people
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Who had the lives
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Taken from them, or the angel mothers
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Who had their children taken from them, the
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Those that lost loved ones because of fentanyl overdoses
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Brought into the nation by the cartels.
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We're on the side of those americans,
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Those you see on the streets protesting.
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I saw the the useful idiots at the grammys.
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These people are on the side of the cartels.
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But relax. here's the good news.
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Could you imagine a better team that this this pincer movement
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Of tom homan, scott besson on the warpath
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From treasury to actually find out who's really bankrolling
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These anarchists. those two together?
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I didn't, governor, no, i didn't stephen miller and, woe, woe
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Betide the anarchists
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Because they're going to be in a world of hurt.
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It's a dream team that's been assembled.
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And can you talk more about this being the worst of the worst?
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I mean, these operations in minneapolis
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And elsewhere, we're talking pedophiles, murderers, rapists.
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We see the propaganda, as you mentioned, at the grammys
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And from the democrat party.
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But these are violent criminals and terrorists
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Who ice is rounding up and deporting.
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Yeah.
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Look, i god bless currently levitt, who i think,
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You know, every press conference she's had
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In recent weeks has mentioned the names of these individuals,
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Like jocelyn nunnery, like rachel moran, these mothers,
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These young girls and,
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Jocelyn's case, you know, a teenager
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Who was raped, strangled and thrown into a ditch.
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What kind of human being is on the side of the illegal
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Who was let into america by the biden-harris administration?
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And who we are now removing from the streets.
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This is the time to make your voice heard
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And stand up for the truth
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And stand up for the innocents, president trump.
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I've seen this now.
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I've known him for ten years, 11 years.
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His primary concern, whether it's peace
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Deals in sharm el-sheikh,
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Whether it's building the border,
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Is to protect the innocent and to stop violence.
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If you're against that, you need to look into your soul
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And identify the darkness that resides.
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No doubt this is a battle literally between good and evil.
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And by the way, the good news is, as you mentioned,
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We have the most secure border in american history.
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Number one and number two.
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And people really need to know this.
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Murder rates have plummeted to historic lows
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During president trump's first year back in office.
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Across the board, crime is way down.
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Can you talk more about that?
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How president trump and his team have brought law and order
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Back to the united states?
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It's it's just common sense.
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Everything we do, the trump
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Administration is driven by common sense.
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If it works, do more of it.
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If it doesn't work, if it's against the u.s.
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Interest, stop it.
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And we're just following the lead
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Of great americans, a dear friend of the president,
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America's mayor rudy giuliani, who turned around new york.
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My wife lived in new york before rudy giuliani.
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It was a hellhole.
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What he did when he became mayor with the great people
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Who supported him, bernie
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Kerik and others, tells you what happens when rule of law
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Is shown to be important for the leaders of our institutions.
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I would just tell you about the city.
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I work in washington, dc,
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The last year of the biden administration.
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If your viewers don't believe me, i'm not surprised.
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Go online and check the statistics.
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The last year of the biden administration,
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A 12 month period, we had 900 carjackings in washington, dc.
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Eric washington it isn't a big city.
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It's 600,000 people.
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One of those car hijackings was in daylight at 4 p.m.
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When an armed fbi agent had her vehicle stolen from her
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At gunpoint, just blocks from the biden white house.
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Now we live in a different america.
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The more than 90%, drop in
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And not only, you know, murders, but violent crimes.
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The fact that people feel safe walking the streets
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Of the nation's capital,
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That's down to one man leading from behind the resolute desk.
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And his name is president donald j. trump.
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Yeah, it's a staggering turnaround in just one year.
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And we've got three years left.
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Much more to come and much more to come.
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With director sebastian gorka coming up,
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What's happening with cuba right now?
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Some major moves there you will want to know about.
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Stick around, don't move.
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Stick around, don't move.
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Welcome back to start back tonight.
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He is a deputy assistant to president
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Trump senior director of counterterrorism
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At the national security council.
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Doctor sebastian gorka is back with us.
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Director gorka,
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President trump rightfully
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Is turning up the heat on the communist
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Regime in cuba, just 90 miles from our southern coast.
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Give us the latest update on why
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The president is ratcheting up the heat on cuba.
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And what a game changer it would be
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If that regime in havana were to be shown the exit.
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So this again is an example of common sense.
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And i strongly, strongly recommend all of your viewers.
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Eric,
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Will read the president's words himself
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From the primary source.
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Just over a month ago,
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He published
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The national security strategy, which is the highest document
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Of its type.
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It bears his signature, it's unclassified, and it explains
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Exactly why we're doing what we're doing with our brave,
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Department of war assets, with the coast guard,
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With the fbi,
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The ship interdictions, the the drug boat strikes.
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It's the monroe doctrine, rewritten and updated
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For the 21st century, as the president calls
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It, the down road doctrine, which is, again, common sense.
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What happens in your neighborhood matters to you
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If you live on a street and there's a drug den next door,
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If there's a hive of of illicit activity three,
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Three houses down that affects the safety of your home,
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Your children and everyone in that neighborhood.
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We will not permit nations in our hemisphere.
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And let's talk about venezuela, which is the clearest example
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To be involved in the poisoning of americans with the drugs
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That are taken by those fast boats towards the united states,
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Or we won't permit them to house inimical regimes
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On their soil, be it hezbollah,
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Iran, china, russia, getting up
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To nefarious activities literally in our backyard.
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So whether it's cuba, whether it's venezuela,
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Whether it's
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Anyone else in our hemisphere, we will not permit you
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To take actions that threaten the lives of all americans,
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Whether or not you voted for the president.
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This isn't political.
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This is about the national security of all americans.
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No doubt it's our own backyard.
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And speaking of the west writ large,
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We look across the pond at europe right now,
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And president trump called them on the carpet
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Rightfully at davos two weeks ago.
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Mass migration, mostly islamic, is changing the face of europe.
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How concerned should we be about this director gorka?
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I look at the uk and some of the madness
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Happening there right now across the board.
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Europe seems to be teetering in many ways,
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And the united states under president
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Trump seems to be
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The last line of defense for the judeo-christian west.
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Will europe get a wake up call soon?
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Well, look, it's go back.
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Everybody needs to watch the president's speech again
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At davos.
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The master class watch,
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Vice president vance's first speech in munich
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At the beginning of the administration
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Calling out the europeans for
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Civilizational decline that they're committing themselves.
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The president has woken them up.
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I think things are turning around for the better.
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Whether it's
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The brexit vote, whether it's the government
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Of maloney or others.
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And i can't give any names.
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But i had a meeting last week with a very senior
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European official who used i.
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I almost fell off my chair.
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Eric used the phrase, migration
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Has been weaponized against the nations of europe.
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And when you have a senior counterterrorism relevant
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European official use that language, you know,
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The president is having an effect.
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You know, that our policies are finally
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Waking up the european elites to what they have committed
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Against their own people for nigh on 40 years now.
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So there's a lot of work to be done.
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I don't recognize the uk,
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The land of my birth, when i go back there,
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But there's enough common sense peeking through.
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Thanks in most part to president trump.
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Yeah, that is encouraging.
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Number one.
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And number two, it is the trump effect, as you said.
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No mistake about it. director gorka thanks so much.
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God bless. keep up the great work folks.
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Be sure to follow him on instagram across social media.
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Director sebastian gorka great to see you as always.
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God bless.
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See you again soon.
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And coming up after the break,
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My final thoughts the return of common sense to america
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In times where common sense is not so common.
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That's next to ground.
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That's next to ground.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks,
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As we wrap up here, what president trump has done
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During his first year plus back in office
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Has been called a revolution of common sense.
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It seems to make a lot of sense
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To, i don't know, require people to show id
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To vote in an election.
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But i think of the bible
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On this proverbs chapter three verse 21.
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My son, do not let wisdom and understanding
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Out of your sight preserve sound judgment and discretion.
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Proverbs 1021 the lips of the righteous
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Nourish many, but fools die for lack of sense.
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Common sense is back.
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Thank god amanda, we need it.
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Aaron mohler has a lot of it.
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She'll be joining us tomorrow night from australia.
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You won't want to miss that.
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Until then, god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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