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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Iran Out of Options | Stakelbeck Tonight | April 30, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stackelbeck
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And iran's regime is out of options.
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The mullahs are losing some $500 million per day
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Thanks to the ongoing u.s.
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Naval blockade.
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Nothing is coming into iran and nothing is going out.
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Iran now has
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No capability to export oil and is running out of space
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To store all the excess crude that's just sitting around.
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Soon those oil wells will be shut in
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And iran loses its main economic lifeline.
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Folks, please don't listen to
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The american left or their minions in the mainstream media.
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The world's number one state sponsor of terrorism is being
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Brought to its knees, both militarily and economically.
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And if the u.s.
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And israel stay the course, the regime has only two options.
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Either agree to a deal that completely neuters it,
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Or try to go out in a blaze of glory and meet allah.
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Either way,
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The regime may have a very short shelf life going forward.
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Joining us now to break it all down
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And why it matters to you is an all star panel.
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Chris mitchell is middle east bureau chief for cbn news
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And host of the jerusalem dateline show, and daniel cohen
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Is host of the daniel cohen show on the real life network.
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Both men are based in israel
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And bring on the ground perspective from the region
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That sets them apart.
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Gentlemen, great to have you with us.
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Chris, i want to start with you.
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It seems to me that president trump
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Has all the leverage here
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In his dealings with the iranian regime,
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And he's not afraid to use it.
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Iran may think trump is going to blink
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Because of skyrocketing oil
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And gas prices, but chris, he seems pretty dug in here.
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Do you get the sense
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That at the end of the day, iran's going to have to yield
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One way or the other?
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Exactly, eric, i think they
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Have to yield one way or the other, because right now,
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As you say, economic lifeline being taken down,
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$500 million a day, they're losing.
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So it will implode sooner or later.
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And i think it's a it's a game of attrition right now.
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And trump is willing to get to that trick.
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Attrition.
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You know, i'm right now in the states, eric and dan and,
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I get the sense
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When i go to the gas pump, i realize prices are higher,
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But i think sometimes there's a disconnect between higher
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Gas prices and what's happening in the middle east right now.
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This could be a historic game changer for the middle east.
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Recently, a u.s.
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Senator said trump is destroying the middle east.
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I think actually he's building rebuilding the possibility
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Of a new middle east
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When iran, this islamic regime that has tried to,
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You know, destroy israel, destroy the u.s.
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And be a, an enemy to all its neighbors.
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This could be a new middle east if the regime does fall.
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Daniel, i think chris makes a great point.
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Look, iran, it's ring of fire.
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Once they're out of the way, so to speak,
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It paves the way for perhaps a new middle east, new
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Abraham accords, agreements, the saudis, and much more.
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But, hey, with iran itself, the view in israel right now,
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Because here in the states,
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As chris said, we're discussing this oil
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And gas prices, the future of the blockade.
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How long can this last?
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What's the state of play on the ground in israel? dan,
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Where you are right now, what are they saying in the land?
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That's a great question, eric.
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First, and i just want to say
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Thank you so much for having me here. and hello, everybody.
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And your audience in stackelberg tonight.
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It's a real pleasure and honor
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From the daniel cohen show and the real life network.
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Just want to send our regards.
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First of all, jewish follower of yeshua jesus
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And living here in israel and getting this front row
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Seat to living guys, we are we are witnessing history.
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What we're seeing right now, we're witnessing
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Not just history books being written.
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We're witnessing biblical history
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Right now, in this moment, what's going on?
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And i think we need to state this,
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And we need to say this very clearly.
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Eric, just to reiterate even your point,
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Right at the open at the show,
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The united states and israel are without question, winning
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This alliance between the united states
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And israel has never been stronger
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The longer the cease fire drags out, though.
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And that's what people here are sort of starting to ask.
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The question is why?
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What are we getting out of it?
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Because the longer
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That the cease fire drags on, the longer it goes, then
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The harder it becomes to restart.
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What's the islamic republic strategy? what is it?
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It's delay, delay, delay.
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They're here for the long game. they're trying to delay.
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They want to stretch this,
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Stretch this out until either american public sentiment sours.
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We're hearing we're hearing people on the left.
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We're even hearing,
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You know, the people in the woke right that are
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That are making comparisons to the iraq war.
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They're making comparisons to afghanistan.
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My goodness, nothing could be further from the truth.
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We are suffocating.
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They are being suffocated.
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And like you said, eric,
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They're losing between 400 and $500 million a day.
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I mean, penciled that out.
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That's $13 billion a month.
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People that i listen to, people that i respect
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And people that i think know their stuff,
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They're saying that that the regime has a few weeks, two,
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Three, maybe four weeks before things really start to crumble.
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We've reached that point right now.
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I mean, the united states and israel
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Have been so effective in their targeted strikes on
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Iran's military infrastructure, on the nuclear sites.
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My goodness, they take out the ayatollah, his son.
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All we've seen is a cardboard cutout of him.
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The best we know.
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We see reports that he's in a hospital bed
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With no legs, possibly in a coma.
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The united states is winning and israel is winning.
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And i just i like to always point it
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Back to the bible, guys, israel has never lost a war.
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It's never lost a war since its rebirth.
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Not one time.
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And it's not going to lose this one either.
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And it's not just because
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Of iron dome and iron beam and military superiority.
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It's because of the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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He never slumbers and he never sleeps.
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Iran is overplaying its cards right now.
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And, we just
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I want to see we need to see some kind of finality to this.
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And hopefully, like you said,
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A remaking of the middle east in the next maybe few weeks
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Or few months, daniel. well said.
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And i hear voices, as you said, on the left and the woke
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Right that tucker carlson
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Wing here in america calling this a quagmire.
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It's been two months.
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Afghanistan was 20 years.
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We were in iraq off and on for over eight years.
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So big difference here, chris,
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About a minute left before the break.
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Then we'll bring guys right back.
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Of course, israel's concerned with iran,
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But also hezbollah to the north in lebanon.
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Very shaky cease fire.
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They're pretty much broken, but hezbollah's in very bad shape.
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Tell us a bit more about the state of play
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To israel's north right now.
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Well, right now, i think, eric,
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Israel has gone up to the litani river,
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And they're reestablishing what had been,
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There in 1982 to 2000.
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There was a security buffer zone to protect the residents of,
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Northern israel.
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Now they're reestablishing of that and much more
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Because they're destroying the infrastructure
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That hezbollah has built over decades.
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Many of the tunnels there, many of the, rocket launchers
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That have been plaguing, northern and central israel.
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So the some of the tunnels have been in those areas.
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I think you've been in those with jonathan conricus as well.
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Hezbollah had built a really amazing infrastructure.
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And right now
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The idf is systematically destroying it with the hope
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That they can eventually have bring peace to not only lebanon,
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But to the people of northern israel. yeah, chris.
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Well said.
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And that was a big deal to uncover that
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Hezbollah tunnel network.
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As you said, i was in one of those tunnels
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With jonathan conricus, friend of the show.
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We went, i think, 100ft underground.
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It looked
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It felt like we were descending into the bowels of hell.
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Insanity.
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But this is what hezbollah, with iranian
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Funding spent decades doing.
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Now it's all going out the window.
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Thank god they hopefully are in their death throes, folks.
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By the way,
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Chris mitchell is in his hometown
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Of boston, massachusetts right now
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Because he's getting inducted into his high school's
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Hall of fame tonight.
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Much deserved, my friend.
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More with the hall of famer chris mitchell
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And daniel cohen after the break.
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Okay, iran it's regime on the ropes.
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Who comes next?
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Is there someone looking to fill the vacuum?
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Also a horrific anti-semitic attack in london yesterday.
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We'll talk about that with chris and daniel after the break.
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Don't move.
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Don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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We're talking to a dynamic duo our good friends
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Chris mitchell cbn news middle east bureau chief
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Host of the jerusalem dateline
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Show and daniel cohen, host of the daniel cohen show
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On the real life network.
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Daniel, i want to ask you about turkey.
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Before the break, i mentioned
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Who will fill the vacuum once iran is kind of swept aside.
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Turkey and nato member nations, second
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Largest military in turkey and yet viciously,
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The leadership in turkey anti-israel.
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And daniel, chris, i want you to take a look at this clip.
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This week at a public ceremony, children in turkey
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Brought on stage
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Encouraged to tear apart pictures of prime minister
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Netanyahu and president trump,
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And even american and israeli flags.
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This was in turkey. take a look.
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What do you mean?
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We don't have another?
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Oh my god.
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Now look here.
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Other.
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Now daniel, that's our supposed ally, our nato ally
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Turkey and american israeli flags being torn apart etc..
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Does that show us which way the winds are blowing in
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Turkey under a zep type erdogan, the muslim brotherhood leader?
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There?
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Pretty frightening, isn't it?
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You know, i was actually in istanbul
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When erdogan for his reelection campaign just a few years ago.
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And when you show that clip, when you
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When i see those the videos, that video of those children.
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Eric, i think about
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Graduation ceremonies in gaza and we've shared that
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On the daniel cohen show on the real life network.
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And i know i believe you've shared it
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On your show as well, where five year olds were.
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I mean, i saying,
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All i want for christmas is my two front teeth.
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When i was five years old, in a christmas
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And kindergarten graduations in gaza,
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You have children dressed up in hamas fatigues.
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They have someone dressed up as the token jew who's
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Whose hands are tied and they they murder the jew.
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They set their place on fire.
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This. guys, this isn't normal. this isn't normal.
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And i don't think it speaks to something larger than just them
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Ripping up photos or, you know, desecrating a picture.
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There's a communication war.
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Israel is facing an uphill pr battle.
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The gap between how israel is portrayed in western media,
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The fact that people call israel an apartheid state.
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You know, i ask eric people, i say, have you been to israel?
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Have you ever been? no.
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There is arabs that serve in the supreme court.
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There are arabs that serve in the knesset.
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There are arabs that are lawyers, that are doctors.
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I went to the beach with my son over the weekend,
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And i saw a muslim woman holding her grandson's hand,
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And they were walking down the beach watching the sunset.
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I don't know about you guys.
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That's not an apartheid.
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That's not apartheid.
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And so israel needs to and this is something that i
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Want to commend prime minister netanyahu, his office.
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They just appointed a, an arab christian,
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A diplomat, basically to do outreach to the christian world.
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The understanding that the evangelical support
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In the united states and around the world,
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That's the secret weapon, that's the secret sauce.
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And why is that?
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Because we acknowledge the god of abraham, isaac, and jacob.
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We acknowledge the god of the bible,
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That genesis 12, which numbers 24 nine,
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The exact same language.
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If you
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I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you.
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It all stems right there.
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Yeah. no doubt.
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And right now
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Europe is on the cursing side or trending in that direction.
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Gentlemen, look, the the anti-semitic wave
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Spreading throughout places like france, germany,
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The u.k., once again yesterday, the u.k.
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In particular,
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Which is sort of ground zero for all this madness.
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We saw a somali muslim migrants stabbed two jews in london.
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We have footage, by the way, of uk
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Prime minister keir starmer visiting
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The scene of the attack today
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And not getting a very warm reception. watch.
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And. thank you.
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That was the left wing prime minister of the uk,
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Keir starmer, getting booed and rightfully
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So at this event
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Because chris, he's done
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Little to nothing to stem the flow of anti-semitism
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In the uk right now.
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We've got a big, big problem in that country, it seems to me.
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How do you see it?
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Well, eric, i think you can actually connect the dots
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Between what we saw there in istanbul
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And what we've seen in england and the
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The main connection is that erdogan, he wants to establish
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A caliphate.
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And there are
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Those in the, in the uk that want the very same thing.
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Why are they incrementally take over political office
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In the uk?
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And that's
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Why we're seeing this alarming rise of anti-semitism.
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X but back to erdogan.
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You know, he
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Not only wants to really indoctrinate a new generation
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To be anti-israel and anti-america,
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But he also wants to establish a neo ottoman empire.
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This is his goal.
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He actually wants to have his, established
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Part of that, empire in jerusalem itself.
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The ottoman empire, you know, spread
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Throughout the middle east at one time.
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He wants to revive that.
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And that's why he's so dangerous.
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A supporter of hamas, the muslim brotherhood.
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And so
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But we're seeing
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This rise of radical islam, not only in, turkey,
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But also in the uk and throughout europe,
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Alarming to the really future of western civilization.
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Yeah.
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Chris, about 40s left, do you see nato?
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I mean, again, turkey, nato, member nation, nato
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Taking a pass, needless to say, on the iran war,
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Letting america and israel go it alone.
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You see, nato right now is perhaps being on the ropes.
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Who knows what the future holds for the alliance.
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Chris, about 30s left your final thoughts there.
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Well, certainly president trump has called out nato
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For being the a non-actor a non participant in the war
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Against iran, even though much of the oil
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That comes from the middle east goes to europe.
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I think nato is merely a shell of itself.
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And i think,
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We'll see what the trump administration does with nato.
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And if they're going to withdraw their support, we'll see.
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That's going to be a major development
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In the next few months.
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Yeah.
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Gentlemen, i've said many times on this
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Show, america under president
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Trump is the last line of defense
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For judeo christian western civilization.
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Israel is the first line of defense.
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Trump and bibi,
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A pair of churchill's in a sea of chamberlain's
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More with daniel cohn and chris mitchell after the break.
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The latest attempted
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Assassination of president trump.
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The response we break it down with christian daniel next.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to
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Stakelbeck tonight we are talking to our
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Good friends daniel cohn and chris mitchell.
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Follow them on youtube across social media.
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They're doing great work as you just heard,
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That great geopolitical middle
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East breakdown that they shared with us.
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But gentlemen, we're going to bring it stateside now.
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And in the wake, of course, on the third attempt
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On president trump's life that we saw saturday night,
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We see an uproar from the left.
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We see even teachers here in america being fired
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From their jobs, expressing remorse
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Over the assassin failing in his attempt
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To kill president trump.
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But, daniel, to show the sign of the times
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And how far we've fallen.
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You posted a clip from the 19 one academy awards
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Hosted by johnny carson the day after ronald reagan was shot.
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The best. take a look at this. yeah, he was the best.
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Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
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I'm sure that all of you here, and most of you
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Watching tonight,
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Understand why we delayed this program for 24 hours
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Because of the incredible events of yesterday.
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That old adage
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The show must go on seemed relatively unimportant.
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The academy, abc television, and all of us connected
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With a show felt because of the uncertain outcome.
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As of this time yesterday, it would have been inappropriate
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To stage a celebration.
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But the news today is very good.
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As you know, the president is in excellent condition.
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At last reports he's been conducting business.
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And he.
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And he is a.
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And he happens to be in very good spirits and i might add
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You might like to know that he also asked
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For a television set in his room
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So he could view this program tonight.
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I was
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Here.
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Myself.
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Daniel, so glad you post that clip.
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And needless to say, it's a long way down
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From johnny carson to jimmy kimmel today.
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What's happened is culture.
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I mean, that was 45 years ago.
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And now just the venom against president trump that we see.
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On this johnny carson, do you guys miss johnny carson?
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I mean, this guy was i grew up was the king
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I mean, the king of late night and you know,
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It was just such a different climate.
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And, you know, back
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Then, look, you know, as you pointed it out, eric, that,
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Johnny carson, i believe, is a democrat,
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That room of hollywood liberals that the oscars guess what?
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They were still democrats. those were liberals.
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But they heard that
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President reagan had been shot by john hinckley,
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And they didn't
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Say too bad, a too bad he missed it was no halloween costumes.
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You know what they did?
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The charlie kirk being shot in the neck.
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And i know you've seen that
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And how grotesque and offensive that was.
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There was still an applause.
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Look, guys, it's a heart issue.
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America has a heart issue.
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It's not a gun issue.
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It's a heart issue right now and right now for the church.
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I want to bring it back to the church.
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This is a time for choosing everybody
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Because there's there's been a drift.
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There's a drift right now
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Between a woke type of christianity, people that,
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You know, a pacifist kind of belief of who jesus was.
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And that's not the case.
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Everybody. that's right.
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Now you've got to choose who you serve.
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Churches that are thriving, programs
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That are thriving.
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Your program, eric, are ones that are boldly
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Telling the truth. watchmen on the wall of jerusalem.
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That's exactly what you're doing, guys.
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We know each other on the air and off the air. what do we.
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We call each other? a band of brothers.
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That's it.
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Our mandate from israel.
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Your mandate, eric and texas.
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Chris, your mandate all over the globe.
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And even as you're receiving an award
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And being put in a hall of fame in your hometown
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Is to just tell the truth, to open the bible, to share
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The word that that's all it is.
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We need to, we need to stand firm in the truth, stand firm,
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Tell the truth, tell the truth,
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And not try to bend the arc
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Towards trying to be cool or being cool christians,
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But instead just standing firm and
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And watch the culture bend toward us.
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Because if we don't, you know what we get?
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We get james talarico.
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Those that are right down the road from you.
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Right, eric? we get texts.
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We get people who claim to be believers
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Who say, who
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Claim to be pastors, who claim to be leaders in the church,
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But then say abortion is okay, and they find
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They twist the scripture to say that a gay marriage is okay,
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Those things are not okay.
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That's not what the it's what the bible says.
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Those words never come back void.
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It's living and active. it's sharper than a two edged sword.
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And so this is a time
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For choosing choose this day who you will serve.
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Amen. these are wolves in sheep's clothing.
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And talarico really
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Best represents out here in texas pro-abortion pro trans.
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Yet claims to be a minister of the gospel doesn't add up.
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Chris, you're kind of going back and forth.
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You're based in jerusalem.
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You hear in the states frequently.
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What's your sense being on the ground in america?
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I believe
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That we have a reprieve in this nation right
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Now, despite the cultural clashes going on.
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President trump's in office and we've received a reprieve.
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But to whom much is given, much is required.
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What's your sense of thanks for the united states right now?
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Yeah, it reminds me of a book
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Many years ago, slouching towards sodom and gomorrah
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And how far the culture has gone since,
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We heard johnny carson in 1981.
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Here we are in 2026, and see how far we have fallen.
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But it also makes me realize, and i know you both agree,
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It's such a need for revival.
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We saw that after the assassination of charlie
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Kirk, the,
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Perhaps the beginnings of, what could be a revival.
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So i think it's just incumbent that we pray prior
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For that revival that we need.
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I know there was a recent movie, the the great awakening.
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We need another great awakening in our country,
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To turn back to god, the god of abraham, isaac
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And jacob back to jesus.
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And, and so this is something the really country
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And the culture need to cry out for. chris.
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So true.
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I've been saying revival or bust awakening even better.
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And by the way, the trump administration next month in dc
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Is rededicating the nation to god on the national mall.
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We'll be covering that some some exciting things
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Happening amid all the madness.
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We're gonna close that after the break
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With daniel and chris in prayer.
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That's next. stick around.
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That's next. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
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We are wrapping up with daniel cohen,
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Host of the daniel cohen show on the real life
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Network, and chris mitchell, cbn news middle east bureau
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Chief and host of the jerusalem dateline show. folks.
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Follow him on x across social media.
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Youtube guys about 30s left for each of you.
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Daniel, i want to start with you.
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You've been covering the events on the ground
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In israel, the middle east for a long time.
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Does this time the latest round feel different to you?
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Yeah.
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I'll just say two things really quickly,
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Because i know we're short on time,
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And that is this, that we went through the 12 day war
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With iran last summer.
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We are in the middle of a ceasefire right now.
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Peace will come.
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Not the true peace that comes
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When jesus, when you sure comes back.
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But peace will come when the ring of fire
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That you were describing earlier in the show, eric,
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When the terrorists when israel's enemies realize
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That israel exists,
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When they acknowledge that israel exists,
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That this nation isn't going anywhere. why?
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Because the bible says so.
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Then real peace can begin.
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Once they acknowledge israel, they just call it.
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They call israel the zionist entity.
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Maybe, maybe, you know,
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They don't even acknowledge the name israel.
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So i wouldn't tell everybody in your audience
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To be praying, to be active and to be engaged.
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I know a lot of christians feel like
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I feel like sitting it out or they feel like they,
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You know,
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I don't want to be political atheist or political agnostic.
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Their political, islam, radical islam is spreading.
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And so i just want to leave you with that, everybody.
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Christians, please engage.
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Please get engaged right now is more important than ever.
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Daniel.
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Well said.
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And chris, as you prepare to be inducted
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Into your high school hall of fame tonight, my friend,
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Can you close us out in prayer for america, israel
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And the world?
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Her father,
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We do pray for revival, great awakening.
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We pray, father, for the freedom for the people of iran.
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And we pray for the people of israel.
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And that america would stand with israel during this time.
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In jesus name, amen.
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Daniel. chris, this was great, guys. we'll do it again soon.
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Thanks so much. stay safe. keep up the great work.
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God bless you.
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And until tomorrow, god bless all of you
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And we'll see you soon. take care.
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Erick Stakelbeck: Iran Out of Options | Stakelbeck Tonight

April 30, 2026 | 23:29

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