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Erick Stakelbeck: Fighting Media Bias | Stakelbeck Tonight

September 18, 2025 | 25:5

Erick Stakelbeck delves into the impact of cancel culture and consequence culture in the wake of the assassination of patriot Charlie Kirk. Discover the disturbing reactions on social media and the repercussions faced by those celebrating such a heinous act. Explore the actions taken by institutions like the FCC to uphold integrity and the fight against malicious forces targeting America. With guests like Brendan Carr and White House Faith Office Director Jenny Korn, gain insight into efforts to safeguard liberty, combat media bias, and strengthen the US-Israel alliance amidst global challenges.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Fighting Media Bias | Stakelbeck Tonight | September 18, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck and there is cancel culture.
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And then there is consequence culture.
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Big difference.
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When you openly celebrate the assassination
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Of a god fearing family man, a great patriot like charlie kirk.
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You're engaging in pure demonic evil.
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That's why it's been so disturbing
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To see doctors, teachers, health care workers and people
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From all walks of life take to social media over this past week
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And basically dance on charlie's grave in the cruelest of ways.
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Many of these people
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Have lost their
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Jobs as a result, not because of voicing their opinions,
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But because they are supporting and promoting the cold
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Blooded murder of a fellow american.
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That's some sick stuff that says a lot about
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The very low moral character of this wretched bunch.
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So it should come as no surprise that their employers have now
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Cut them loose.
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There are consequences for very bad and disgusting behavior.
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Imagine that left wing, late night host jimmy
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Kimmel just found that out the hard way.
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Abc announced that it's pulling his show off the air
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Indefinitely, after kimmel falsely claimed on national tv
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That charlie kirk's killer was a maga republican,
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Even though it's been
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Well-established that the gunman was a radical leftist
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Who was living with his transgender partner.
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Very maga.
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We're not folks.
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Kimmel once again showed that he's little more than a hateful
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Anti-trump propagandist masquerading
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As a late night comedian.
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And now he's out.
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Johnny carson and jay leno.
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Where have you gone?
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Fcc chairman brendan carr weighed in on
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How broadcasters stepped up and refused to air kimmel
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After his blatant lie about the source of charlie's death.
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Next door, as you
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Noted, stood up and said, look, we have the license
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And we don't want to run this anymore.
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We don't think it serves the interests of our community.
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Sinclair did the same thing, so there's more work to go.
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But i'm very glad to see that
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America's broadcasters are standing up
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To serve the interests of their community.
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We don't just have this progressive foie gras coming out
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From new york and hollywood.
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Now, i sat down with chairman carr recently
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In washington, dc to break down how, under president trump,
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The fcc is making the airwaves fair again and also
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Taking on criminals and communist china.
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Take a look.
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Chairman carr, great to have you with us.
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Thanks for joining us.
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Hey, big story.
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I think a lot of americans may not be aware
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Of what you're focusing on
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At the fcc, along with senator tom cotton of arkansas.
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We've got criminals in prisons,
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Chairmen who are actually conducting
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And engineering crimes from prison from cell phones.
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What's the fcc doing to stop that?
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Yeah, president trump is making america safe again.
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This is just one example.
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Most people don't think about it.
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But when you put some of the worst of the worst behind bars,
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They think they can't hurt you anymore.
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It turns out that's not the case.
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We have contraband cell phones that are flowing into prisons
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By the tens of thousands every single year.
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They're being used to order hits, kidnaping,
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To run drug operations.
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And for years,
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Local and state jails asked the federal government,
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Including the biden administration, for help
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To authorize them to jam contraband cell phones
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So they're no more effective than an expensive paperweight.
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And they didn't get the help they needed.
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But that changes now.
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So just this month, we're going to vote at the fcc
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To allow state and local prisons to jam cell phones.
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And it can make a real difference
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In terms of improving public safety across the country.
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It's a massive story.
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I mean, thousands of crimes being carried out,
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Committed, engineered from behind prison walls.
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That's about to change.
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You talk, chairman, about making america
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Safe again under president trump.
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Of course, china,
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Communist china, obviously huge threat to the united states
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On many levels, including communications.
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And talk more about that.
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The fcc is uncovering some pretty disturbing details there
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And doing something about it.
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Yeah, the fcc, one of our main focuses in
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Making sure our communications networks are safe and secure.
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And one of the biggest threats
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To that comes from communist china.
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The ccp,
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Every single day is poking and prodding
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And trying to find weaknesses in our communications networks.
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And we've been taking concrete action.
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For instance, it was the fcc that took action
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On huawei and zte effectively spy gear years ago,
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And we should have a new counsel
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On national security inside the fcc.
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One of things we're doing
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Is this there's no piece of electronics
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That can be used
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In this country, from a cell phone to a tv,
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Without going through a testing procedure
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To make sure it's safe for use in the u.s., including
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National security checks.
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So one way or another, spy gear
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Isn't sneaking into the country.
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Well, it turns out that about 75% of all electronics
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Testing takes place inside china.
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And what we found is that a handful or more of
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Labs are themselves owned or controlled by the ccp.
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So think about this.
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We're trying to stop ccp spy gear from coming into the u.s.,
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And the entities that are checking
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To make sure it's not are in china and are owned by the ccp.
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That's stopping on our watch.
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And just this week,
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We've now kicked seven labs out of this, system
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That are in china.
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We've got more in the works, but we're gonna stay focused
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Here on keeping our networks secure.
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Yeah, president trump making america safe again,
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But also saying again, it sounds like chairman.
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And the fcc is a big part of that.
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That includes a media landscape,
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A monopoly of sorts over the years.
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New york city, l.a., i mean, kind of
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The big powerhouse is kind of dominating
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The media landscape and biased in many instances.
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Needless to say,
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How is the fcc working to change that on the ground?
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Broadcasters across the country are differently situated
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Than other speakers, different
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Than cable, different than streamers.
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And the reason
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Why is they have a license from the fcc
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And when we license
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A broadcaster, we're necessarily excluding other speakers
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From being able to use that spectrum.
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So because of that,
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They have to operate in the public interest,
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Not a narrow interest.
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Now, over the years, the fcc has stepped away
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From enforcing that public interest mandate.
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I don't think we're better off for it.
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If you look at the
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Mainstream legacy media, disney, abc, comcast, nbc,
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So much of their content
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Now is dictated by executives that are sitting in new york
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And hollywood.
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And so we are reinforcing the public interest mandate.
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We're trying to re empower independent broadcasters.
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And what you guys are doing is such a great example,
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Because there's a yearning in this country
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For faith based programing.
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And you guys are meeting that.
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And we at the fcc want to make sure that you can do your job.
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You know, along those lines, what are you doing to combat
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The media bias?
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What can you do with the fcc
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To fight against sad, long time entrenched leftist bias?
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Yeah, president trump
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Ran directly at the legacy mainstream media.
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He refused to accept the idea that, you know, again,
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Those executives in new york and hollywood can dictate
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What we think, what we can say,
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And the change is already happening.
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You're looking right now, npr defunded, pbs has been defunded.
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Cbs has now agreed to return to more fact based,
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Objective journalism.
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In fact, they put in a new ombudsman
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To address bias issues.
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It's pretty interesting to see who's upset by that.
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The new york times, for instance, ran
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Effectively a hit piece on this new cbs ombudsman.
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Because he wants to return that organization to more fact
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Based reporting.
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So there's more work to be done on this front,
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But we're starting to see some significant progress.
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And that's a good thing.
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Yeah.
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When the times does a hit piece
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On you, you're probably over the mark. exactly.
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One last question.
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Big picture goals for the fcc over the next few years
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With president trump in office, what is your trajectory
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And what are you really looking to accomplish?
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Yeah, we're trying to keep up with president trump.
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First and foremost.
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His level of energy
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And productivity is really inspiring.
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And i think we're all competing in government
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To try to keep up.
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Our big agenda is what we've unveiled
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And we call the build america agenda.
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There's so many parts of the country
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That don't have access to high speed internet,
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So we've put together a concrete plan to get more spectrum
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Out there to bridge the digital divide, permitting reforms.
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We get more high speed build.
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We're looking to bolster our space economy
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And make sure we have the workforce
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To actually build this infrastructure out.
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So we've got a concrete, multi-step plan, build america,
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To finish the job of connecting rural america
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To modern network infrastructure.
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Great things are happening, chairman.
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Thank you. we appreciate it. keep up the great work.
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Good to be with you. yeah. thank
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Thanks again to fcc chairman brendan carr for joining us.
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Folks.
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Since taking office, president trump has not only targeted
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The left wing bias in the media, he's also made history
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For the faith community, protecting religious liberty,
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Defending families, standing with israel
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And reversing the disastrous policies of the biden years.
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Up next,
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We head to the white house to get the inside story
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From white house faith office director jenny corn.
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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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President trump announced
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Last week that he was calling on all americans to pray
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As we approach our 250th anniversary as a nation.
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Jenny corn is one of the president's point
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People on this important initiative.
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She's faith director of the white house
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Faith office, and she joined me to share
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How this historic office is empowering people of faith
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And making an impact across the nation.
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Take a look.
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Jenny, thanks so much for joining us here
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At the white house.
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Hey, wanted to ask you about this.
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Really exciting for people of faith.
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A call to prayer from president trump.
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He's calling for the nation to pray.
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What a great idea.
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Needless to say, jenny, tell us more about it.
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And thank you, erick, so much for
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For being here at the white house.
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Welcome to the white house.
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We love being here.
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It's such an honor to be at the white house faith office.
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This is, you know, first time ever
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To have a white house faith office, historic, newly created.
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And one of the main things we do is we pray.
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And it's a it's a normal thing around here at the white house.
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And so what a fitting way to celebrate the centennial is.
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Now we're, we're
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We're calling it, to ask america to pray with us.
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So for america 250,
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The 250th anniversary of this amazing country, we're asking
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A million, people of faith to pray with us every week
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Leading up to the actual, super centennial of next year.
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Yeah.
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Hey, adoption and foster parenting.
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But tell us about this journey, this initiative
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That you will be pursuing in the months and years to come.
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Fostering and adoption. right.
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So, in the faith office, we have ten, items
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That we're working on, issues that we're working on.
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So just a few, but one of them is foster care and adoption.
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We've seen far too long.
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That is so hard to adopt.
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It's it's costly.
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There's a lot of questions
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About people's faith when they adopt.
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There's these litmus tests.
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Instead of looking at a family
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And saying, wow, this is a loving family
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Who can provide for a child,
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Let's see how we can make it easier
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For for people, for kids to have loving homes.
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We don't like when,
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A child has to age out of foster care at 18 years old.
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Imagine that you're in foster care
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Almost your whole life,
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And then at 18 years old, they give you a little bit of money,
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But you gotta.
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You gotta rent a place. you gotta find a job.
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You gotta take care of yourself
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Without any kind of family around you to support you.
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So we're looking at foster care
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And adoption
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From those families
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Who might just need a helping hand
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To keep their child in their home,
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To those who are in foster care,
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Who are ready to be adopted,
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To those who are aging out of foster care.
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And how do we provide them with scholarship
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And the means, you know, people, landlords who are willing
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To rent to those people, willing to give jobs.
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But here's the thing that i'm very excited about.
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There's about 394,000 houses of worship in this country.
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There's about 100,000
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Adoptable kids in the foster care program.
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If we get 25% of those houses of worship to partner
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With the white house private public partnership,
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We get most of the majority of those into a loving home.
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That's incredible.
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I know president trump is behind that as well.
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Hey, we talked about the faith
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Office and all you've accomplished.
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You put out a great list, by the way, jenny,
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The top 100 accomplishments for faith. yes.
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So far in just eight months in the administration,
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People might say, okay, the faith office, that's great.
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They pray
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And they pray for president trump,
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And they have an office right near the west wing.
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Talk more about there's much more to it.
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More about some of the tangible things you're doing.
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You just mention adoption and fostering,
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But it's much broader than that.
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Absolutely.
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So what we like to start with is tell people what we
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What the white house faith office is not.
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So we are not the pastor of america.
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We are not the theological office of america.
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We are the office that allows people of faith to have a voice
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In their federal government.
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Now, there are office faith offices
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In some of the governor's offices
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And some of the local offices, and we encourage that.
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But for our job, we look at the federal government
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And the policies that are put in place
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That either
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Discriminate against people of faith
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Or because they can help people of faith.
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And unfortunately, for far too long
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And in the biden administration,
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This federal government was going after people of faith.
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There are literally irs agents who are watching sermons
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To see if they were going against the johnson amendment
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And how they could find them.
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And and a lot of it doesn't ever go to court
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Because the process is the punishment.
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So what we do is we give a voice to people of faith.
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So we are constant
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Bringing people of every denomination,
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Of every ethnic background, from every state in this country
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To hear the concerns that they have
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And then turning that into policy.
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So religious freedom is our number
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One is our number one issue.
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We want to make sure that people of faith
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Have every single right
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To practice their faith in this country, that they need.
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And it's a federal government can either get out of the way
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Or put a policy in place to allow them to to be able to,
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Freely practice or faith and worship.
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That's what we're doing. that's what we're focused on.
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How deeply embedded.
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It's a new day, obviously, new administration
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Doing great things.
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But how deeply embedded
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Was that anti-christian bias in particular, jenny.
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Previous administration also mentioned the johnson
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Amendment, major, major game change of president trump
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To do away with that and get more pastors freedom
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To speak their mind. right.
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So president trump loves to tell the story.
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Back in 2016, we had a large meeting with
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About a thousand, faith leaders up in trump tower.
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And and he was talking to a smaller group of them.
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And he said, they.
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Oh, you like what i have to say? okay.
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I just, you know, i would like your support.
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And he says, then it goes real quiet
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And they go, well, sir, we can't endorse you.
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What do you mean, you can endorse me?
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You can endorse the person that you support that supports you.
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And that's because of the johnson amendment.
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So in 45,
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We actually did an executive order
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That chipped away at the johnson amendment.
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But in this in just the last eight months,
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The department of justice issued guidance
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As well to basically say that people of faith,
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Faith leaders are allowed to support the candidate
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That they would like to support
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And support the policies, because it's not about politics,
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It's about the policies that these elected officials
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Implement that affect the church.
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So that's important anyway.
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But you said about the 100 victories, i'd like to talk
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That a little bit.
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So what we were doing is, you know, this
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President goes quick like he just gets things done.
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And we don't have a lot of time to celebrate.
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He he's like, i accomplished that. on to the next right.
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So there's not a lot of time to celebrate.
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So what we did is we we wrote down the 100 victories
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And that's on white house.
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Uh.gov. so dot whitehouse.gov.
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And you can look at that.
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But it talks about making sure that we celebrated easter,
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Making sure that we allow for a prayer in school
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That we allow for faith leaders to be able to worship freely,
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To have the government not be weaponized
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Against people of faith.
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So those are just a few, religious liberties.
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The top.
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But we're going to get into,
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Foster care and adoption, mental health, substance abuse,
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Because faith based programs are 80% less successful.
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And the government wants to partner with success. yeah.
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And it is a spiritual battle,
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No doubt, that's raging in our nation.
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And well said. we appreciate it. god bless.
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Keep up the great work. thank you. appreciate it. thank you.
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Thanks again to jenny corn for hosting us at the white house.
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Coming up after the break,
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European leaders
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Are threatening to recognize a palestinian state at the u.n.,
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Even as israel fights for its very survival.
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Why does western europe seem bent on cultural suicide
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And how was israel standing in the gap
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For the future of western civilization?
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Israeli knesset
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Member ohad tol joins me with a powerful response
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After the break.
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After the break.
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Israel
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Is the first line of defense for western civilization.
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Yet some seem to have forgotten that.
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That's why ohad tal's work is so important.
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He is a member of the israeli knesset.
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He's here in america, solidifying the u.s.
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Israel relationship. he joins us now.
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Ohad, always great to see you.
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Thank you. erick, thank you so much for having me.
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It's always a pleasure to be. here with you. yeah.
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You know, you've been traveling the country coast
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To coast the last week and a half.
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Ohad, what is your impression we're hearing about
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News of slippage in support for israel in some quarters.
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You know,
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I think we are in challenging times,
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And i think
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There's a whole campaign to try to de-legitimize israel,
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To de-legitimize our positions and the simple truth, as you
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Just of said, is that israel is at the forefront
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Of a struggle between the forces of good
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And the forces of barbarism.
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You know,
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We all seen what happened only last week, the the, the
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The unspeakable murder of of charlie kirk, who wasn't only
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A fighter
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And defender for israel, but he was also somebody
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Who dedicated his life for dialog, for
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For standing with the truth no matter what,
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And to be able to discuss and to have an open dialog
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About things and, and what we've seen,
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Especially since this, murder,
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The amount of filth on social media is unbelievable.
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And, you know, charlie, you know, i just read,
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One of one of his messages in a conference or participated in
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When he's saying that israel is still at the forefront of
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This struggle against the forces who are coming to america
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Of of secularism and progressivism,
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Together with their alliances, radical islam.
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And these forces are coming to take down america.
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And israel again.
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Is that first line, as you said, ohad
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Israel is fighting the good fight for all of us
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In the belly of the beast, quite literally,
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Those twin forces you laid out so well,
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Radical leftism, radical islam, that unholy
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Alliance chipping away at judeo christian western civilization.
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Speaking of which,
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You would think and i said at the top
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Here in the intro, you would think that
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All of the west would support israel for,
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For common sense reasons, as you just laid out.
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Yeah, we have european leaders, repeatedly condemning israel,
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Saying they're going to unilaterally recognize
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A palestinian state at the un general assembly.
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What are your thoughts on that?
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This seems like cultural suicide by western europe.
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Exactly.
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But, you know, and, you know, this is exactly
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The one thing that is in common
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With all these countries, france, in canada and the uk,
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There are all countries who basically lost last hope.
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They've lost hope for their own country.
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They are not fighting
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For the radical against the radical islamists
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Who took over their own countries.
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I don't know if you know that, but i think in about nine of the
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Biggest cities in the uk, the mayors are muslims.
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These are cities that were taken by radical islamists.
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Now this country is seeing israel fighting back,
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Not caving to to these radicals, and they just can't stand it.
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So i think, you know, we should respectfully disagree
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With these countries and tell them, you know,
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You try to push us to make more concessions
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You've tried to make to push us for these crazy ideas.
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We had enough of that.
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We've seen exactly what is the result.
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The result is october 7th.
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The result is the,
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The greatest massacre of jews since the holocaust.
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You know, you don't you don't like us.
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We will manage just fine, even without you.
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Yeah. and thank god for america. thank god.
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Thank god for president trump, a leader, a world leader
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Who, despite all these pressures from all over,
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He stand with the truth, with israel
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And realizing the simple truth that we are, serving america.
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We are serving the forces of good against this radicals
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Who are trying to destroy our shared civilization.
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Yeah, a beacon of sanity here in washington, dc, right now,
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Thank god. oh, god.
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And you mentioned the reaction to charlie kirk's assassination.
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It reminded me of the reaction of the radical left and islamist
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To october 7th,
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Where they praised hamas, actually
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Celebrated death and carnage.
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That's what we're up against. yeah.
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But thank god that u.s.
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Israel alliance remains very strong.
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And for israel, i believe ohio to remain strong.
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Judea and samaria. yeah.
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The biblical heartland, which i know is near
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And dear to your heart,
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Of course, in all of our hearts as bible believers,
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Israelis, sovereignty over this crucial, crucial region
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Where the prospects for that.
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What does that mean and why is it so important?
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First of all, i think that's the only relevant
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Answer for these, pressure, international pressure
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From from these lost countries, european countries
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Who are pushing israel for more concessions.
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The answer should be applying
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Full israeli sovereignty over judea and samaria.
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And i think it's also important for christians
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Because we all believe in god and we all believe that god
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Has brought the jewish people
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Back to their homeland after 2000 years for a purpose.
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I believe that that purpose is israel's prophecy to
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To make that place, to make jerusalem
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A house of prayers for all nations.
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That is the purpose that we are here to serve.
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So so i think strong israel and sovereign israel,
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And especially over judea and samaria, our biblical homeland,
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Will be good not just for us.
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It will be good, for unity will be good for christians.
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It will be good for muslims as well,
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Because, you know, just, even a simple example,
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Before the six-day war,
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Before they had the control over the old city of jerusalem,
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Jews and christians were not allowed
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To go to their holiest sites and worship.
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Today, under israeli sovereignty, everybody can come
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And worship
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Jews, christians, muslims, everybody can come and worship.
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That's our vision.
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That's what we are doing. mk tal,
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We can't thank you enough for all your tireless work.
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And thank you. thank you so much.
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Yes. and bring christians and jews together
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And your visits here in the u.s.. it's such important work.
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Really appreciate anything? yes.
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God bless. so see you. again so much.
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Thank you. much more after the break. stick around.
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Thank you. much more after the break. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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Tonight we were talking about these people
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Mocking the murder of charlie kirk.
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When you're mocking
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The assassination of an innocent man,
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Ultimately you're mocking god.
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Galatians chapter six, verse seven says, do not be deceived.
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God cannot be mocked.
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A man reaps what he sows, and there are consequences
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For those actions.
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Hey, tomorrow night congressman randy webb was here,
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Also a good friend of charlie kirk on
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What he really believed about is really?
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You won't want to miss that until then. god bless you.
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We'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: Fighting Media Bias | Stakelbeck Tonight

September 18, 2025 | 25:5

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