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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Israel Says They Will Take Gaza City | Stakelbeck Tonight | August 7, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck.
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- And the two biggest conflicts in the world
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- Right now are reaching a boiling point.
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- Russia continues to bombard ukraine with no end in sight.
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- And israel has plans to fully occupy
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- Gaza to crush hamas once and for all.
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- With both of these wars intensifying
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- And their shockwaves felt globally,
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- This is a very good time for strong american leadership.
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- President trump is providing exactly that.
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- Number one, he gave vladimir putin an ultimatum
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- To come to the negotiating table over ukraine.
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- Putin ignored it.
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- And trump said, okay, then we'll just ramp up tariffs
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- Not only on russia, but on any country
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- That buys russian oil.
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- And what do you know?
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- All of a sudden, putin wants a meeting.
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- He and president trump
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- Are set to have a summit as early as next week.
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- And ukrainian president volodymyr
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- Zelensky may also join them at some point again.
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- Peace through strength works.
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- So does using the considerable leverage that america holds.
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- Trump is doing exactly that.
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- And he's also bringing common sense and moral
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- Clarity back to the table in gaza.
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- He realizes that hamas is evil and does not want to negotiate.
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- And that recent moves by european nations and canada
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- To recognize a palestinian state only strengthen hamas.
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- So trump is giving israel the green light
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- To do what it needs to do in gaza, namely,
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- Dismantle hamas and free the hostages.
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- And he's doing it despite a growing chorus of voices
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- In america and around the world that are condemning israel.
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- Coming up, the former u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel joins us to break down
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- What comes next in the world's most pivotal region.
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- And it all starts now.
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- He served as the u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel under president
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- Trump, and helped broker the historic abraham accords
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- That reshaped the middle east from moving the u.s.
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- Embassy to jerusalem to standing unapologetically
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- For israel's biblical heartland of judea and samaria.
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- Ambassador david friedman
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- Has been on the front lines of one of the most
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- Consequential policy shifts in modern american history.
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- Today, ambassador friedman continues to be a leading voice
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- For truth in the region through his one jewish state podcast.
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- And he joins us now. ambassador.
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- Always great to see you.
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- Hey, i guess the big story right
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- Now, prime minister netanyahu saying, look, enough is enough.
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- We're going to fully.
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- At least reports are saying that he is considering fully
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- Occupying gaza, hopefully crushing hamas once and for all
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- And freeing those remaining 20 living hostages.
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- David, do you think this is the time
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- Diplomacy has been tried again and again?
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- Hamas doesn't want to play ball.
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- Is this the time, perhaps, for israel
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- To ramp things up militarily and try to end this thing?
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- Erick. hi.
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- Thanks. thanks for having me.
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- And you answered
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- Your own question. i mean, they they've tried.
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- They've tried and tried and tried.
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- I mean, these poor, families are watching,
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- Every day as these negotiations continue to fail.
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- And, of course,
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- The hostage cause was dealt
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- A terrible blow over the last couple of weeks
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- When, you know, canada and france and,
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- The united kingdom all indicated they would recognize
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- A palestinian state with with no demands on, hamas.
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- 27 democratic senators voted to abandon any aid to israel.
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- So hamas is watching this.
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- And of course, they're they see
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- They perceive themselves as winning.
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- They have no feel, no need to make any concessions.
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- So, you know, what are what are the prime minister's choices?
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- I'm not going to surrender.
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- I mean, you know, from day
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- One, surrender and give back the hostages
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- Was the prescription for the end of the war from day one.
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- Hamas has not been willing to do it now.
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- They're not even willing to sit in, negotiate.
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- They're still out there and they're still infecting gaza.
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- They're still torturing, their own people.
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- Their own people are the greatest victims of hamas.
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- So what's the choice?
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- I mean, if israel doesn't go in, if they just kind of retreat
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- To the perimeter, we'll see another october 7th, maybe.
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- Maybe in a year, maybe. maybe less.
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- So what choice does he have?
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- Yeah. so true. great points all around.
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- And i didn't see the allies leaving the nazis
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- In control of germany in the wake of world war two.
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- Needless to say.
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- And by the way, folks,
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- Ambassador friedman is a warrior for truth on his exit count.
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- Be sure to follow him there and pick up his book,
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- One jewish state, in addition to checking out the podcast
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- As well.
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- David onex,
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- You've been a steady voice for truth day after day in terms
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- Of this disinformation campaign, which is really sinister,
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- Accusing israel of forcibly starving the people of gaza.
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- I don't think we've ever seen the annals of modern warfare,
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- A nation actually feeding the enemy.
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- I don't see, for instance, russia feeding
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- Ukraine right now, but that is the situation.
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- Can you talk
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- More about these false claims, why it's so troublesome and how
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- We can fight back?
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- Well, in the first
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- Instance, i mean, the allegations
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- That israel
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- Is intentionally starving, people in gaza,
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- That they're committing a genocide 100% false.
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- Absolutely no evidence to support that.
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- And in fact, you know, the numbers,
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- Belie that because, you know, the population of palestinians
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- In gaza has only gone up and up and up
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- Ever since israel has been in control of that territory.
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- Israel is not in the food distribution business, right?
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- Their job is not to actually hand out food
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- To every person who's starving.
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- It's impossible the soldiers do that.
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- They're going to get shot if they do that.
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- So it's been left to humanitarian organizations.
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- The biggest one was the united nations.
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- Now the united nations just admitted
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- In the last couple of days
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- That more than 80% of the food they get from israel.
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- Israel does its job.
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- They allow the food to enter into gaza.
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- 80% of the food that the u.n.
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- Gets, they don't distribute.
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- Either it gets stolen or it gets, hijacked by hamas
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- Or in some way it's used to extort the people.
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- So you know, you know, it's it's not it's not pleasant.
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- It's not a good thing to be living in gaza right now,
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- But let's please place the blame where it belongs.
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- It's on the united nations and it's on hamas there.
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- There are even american sponsored ngos
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- That are trying to to to do the work of the u.n.
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- And they're doing a good job, but it's not enough.
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- But, by all means, you know, people who claim
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- This is on israel, they've got the facts completely wrong.
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- Now, the other point you made about about the,
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- About the misinformation, look, just in the past week,
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- You saw a front page picture in the new york
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- Times of a poor, emaciated kid.
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- Now, the implication was there that he's being starved.
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- The truth is that that came out was that
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- He has a congenital disease which causes his his problems.
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- And the new york times cut the picture
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- In a way where off to the side of the picture
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- Was his sibling, who was perfectly healthy,
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- Perfectly normal size and weight.
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- So that was completely doctored.
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- The new york times then acknowledged
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- It was doctored, but they put the retraction,
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- You know, in a way that maybe 1/1000 of the people that saw
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- The picture could see it.
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- More recently, time magazine, time magazine has a front page
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- Picture of people in gaza with holding dishes and pans,
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- You know, begging for food.
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- Then, we saw the picture of.
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- We saw how the picture was taken.
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- It was all posed. it was all orchestrated.
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- It was orchestrated by a hamas photographer.
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- You can see him taking the picture.
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- Nobody was begging for food.
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- These were all orchestrated shots.
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- The world is going for it because they like the narrative.
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- They like the narrative
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- That israel is a bad actor, but it's completely false.
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- It's truly sinister and truly false.
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- And ambassador, thank you so much for shining
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- Light on this every day, cutting through the clutter.
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- One other place for doing that is judea and samaria,
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- The biblical heartland.
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- We saw speaker mike johnson there just a few days ago.
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- Talk about the importance of speaker johnson's visit,
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- For judea and samaria, and why that region is so
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- Important for israel's continued survival.
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- Well, kudos to the speaker.
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- He's the highest ranking, american, official ever.
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- Well, depends on your rank, i guess,
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- In the order of succession, he's the highest ranking.
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- Although mike pompeo,
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- Made these visits when he was secretary of state.
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- Very, very important signal,
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- Shows how,
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- Jews and christians stand for biblical israel.
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- From a security perspective,
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- You will not find a serious military expert,
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- Not just in israel, but anywhere in the world
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- Who thinks that israel can give up judea and samaria?
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- And that's subjecting self to an existential risk.
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- But, you know, for for your many of your listeners
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- And for someone like me who's a believer,
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- This is biblical israel.
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- This is where you can go and retrace the steps of joshua,
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- The steps of jesus, the steps of samuel.
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- You can relive the events of the bible.
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- You can recharge if you will.
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- You know your your theological batteries right?
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- And if we give that up, if israel gives that up, the
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- The palestinians will do nothing other than destroy it.
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- They will destroy the only opportunity in the world
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- For people
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- Who believe in the bible to come back
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- And relive those those events, to prove
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- That it's not just a myth that these stories are actual facts
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- That actually occurred.
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- No doubt. ambassador. well said. last question.
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- Can you talk a bit about how president trump
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- Is really
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- And in working in tandem with bibi
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- Netanyahu is really transforming the region.
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- You were part of that
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- Transformation firsthand during president trump's first term.
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- Do you see better days ahead in president trump's second term
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- When it comes to the middle east?
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- Yeah, tough times now getting through the gaza mess.
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- But the abraham accords could be back on the table.
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- It seems there are some exciting things
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- On the horizon under president trump's leadership.
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- Yeah.
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- Look, i'm so proud of the president.
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- You know, i've known him a long time. he's an old friend.
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- I see what he's doing now in his second term.
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- And and he is,
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- I think, exceeded all expectations
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- In terms of being a friend of israel
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- And someone who is in a position to deliver
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- Peace in the middle east.
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- He is doing an outstanding job.
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- He gets it. look, he learned a lot his first term.
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- He totally gets
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- You know who the good guys are, who the bad guys are,
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- Who you can trust, who you can't believe.
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- He he is as schooled and as expert in middle east
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- Politics, geopolitics as any human being alive.
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- And he's doing really an outstanding job.
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- And i do think that, as the relationship,
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- Between america and israel strengthens, as israel,
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- You know, transforms not to just being a regional superpower,
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- But really one of the world's superpowers and becomes,
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- America's, i believe, america's most important partner.
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- Together, i believe they will expand
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- The abraham accords in ways
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- We probably could only have dreamed of, five, six years ago.
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- Amen.
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- Exciting times, ambassador
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- David friedman, thank you so much, folks.
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- He is a must follow on x. check him out there.
- 00:11:20.970 --> 00:11:23.405
- Also, the one jewish day podcast and his great book, one
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- Jewish state ambassador, david friedman. thanks as always.
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- God bless my friend. we'll see you again soon.
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- And coming up after the break, senator tim scott is here
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- With the inside story of what really built america.
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- Folks, you won't want to miss this. stick around.
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- Folks, you won't want to miss this. stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck
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- Tonight, from the halls of congress
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- To the campaign trail, senator tim scott has never shied away
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- From proclaiming the power of biblical truth
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- In shaping america's past and securing its future.
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- In his great new book, one nation always under god profiles
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- In christian courage, senator scott
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- Takes us on a journey through u.s.
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- History, spotlighting the christian men
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- And women whose faith not only shaped the nation,
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- But changed the world.
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- Senator, always great to see you.
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- Congrats on the book.
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- I really think it should be required reading.
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- Of course, elementary middle schools, high schools
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- Across the nation.
- 00:12:26.203 --> 00:12:27.170
- This should be required reading in times
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- Where the culture in many cases tells us, look,
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- This is not a nation founded on christian ideals.
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- And yet you show very clearly that's exactly what it was.
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- Senator, why was this book so important
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- For you to write personally.
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- I think you hit the nail on the head, erick.
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- Today we do not celebrate our judeo-christian foundation,
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- It seems at all.
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- The truth is that without that christian foundation,
- 00:12:51.962 --> 00:12:55.432
- This country is drifting in the wrong direction.
- 00:12:55.432 --> 00:12:58.034
- We see that homelessness.
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- We see this in fatherlessness,
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- And we see this in a government that doesn't serve the people,
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- But it wants to control the people.
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- The only way to get back to our basic root
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- System is to encourage people to understand
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- How faith has impacted every major institution
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- In this country, from the government to education
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- To health care, even to our military,
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- All influence powerfully by the love of jesus
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- And the story of the gospel of jesus christ.
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- Yeah, i mean, you've got incredible
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- Profiles of courage in the book, senator.
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- I think of world war two ace
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- Fighter pilot eddie, rick and boxer.
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- You tell his story and his testimony of faith.
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- We've got an astronaut.
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- We've got a scientist.
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- We've got people of all walks of life, all influenced by jesus.
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- All christians talk more about that.
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- Some of these incredible people that you highlight in the book.
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- I guess
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- It's undeniable that jim lovell, the apollo 13 astronaut,
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- He finds himself 200,000 miles, basically
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- Getting lost in space because the systems
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- That was supposed to support them were crashing.
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- He finds a peace that surpasses understanding,
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- Much like philippians four six through eight talks about.
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- And what did he do?
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- He allowed it that piece to clear his mind.
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- He found the strategies necessary to save the lives
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- Of their fellow astronauts and return to earth safely
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- When he was basically lost 200,000 miles away.
- 00:14:20.850 --> 00:14:23.753
- Think about the story of norman burleigh.
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- Here's a christian farmer raised his entire life on the farm.
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- He understands farming really well.
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- He takes the genius that the lord provided him with,
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- And he saves more
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- Than a billion lives by figuring out how to farm land
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- That had, up until that point, been desolate and not farmable.
- 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:47.677
- So story after story, i can't pass by horatio
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- Stafford, horatio stafford, what a powerful story.
- 00:14:52.515 --> 00:14:56.252
- One of the most unmatched
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- Things to do, erick, is to have to bury your children.
- 00:14:57.620 --> 00:15:02.092
- And that's the plight he faced when
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- His daughters were lost at sea.
- 00:15:04.627 --> 00:15:07.163
- He was tormented by that reality.
- 00:15:07.163 --> 00:15:09.666
- Nightmare after nightmare after nightmare.
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- But as a result of that, we have a hymn that he penned
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- During the midst of his challenges.
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- It is well.
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- It is well with my soul.
- 00:15:21.911 --> 00:15:25.515
- How is that possible?
- 00:15:26.016 --> 00:15:27.884
- He was leaning on the truth of romans 828 that somehow,
- 00:15:27.884 --> 00:15:31.221
- Someway, all things work together for good, for those
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- Who love god and are called according to his purpose.
- 00:15:34.991 --> 00:15:38.561
- Horatio found strength and courage
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- To dedicate the rest of his life, in part to helping kids
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- All over the place.
- 00:15:45.301 --> 00:15:46.536
- Tens of thousands of children benefited
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- From the excruciating loss of his kids.
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- He invested his life
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- In making the world a better place for others.
- 00:15:54.577 --> 00:15:57.480
- That's the power of a risen savior.
- 00:15:57.480 --> 00:16:00.617
- And in my book, one nation always under god, available
- 00:16:00.617 --> 00:16:04.154
- Right now at amazon.com or wherever books are sold,
- 00:16:04.154 --> 00:16:07.957
- You can find the hope that you might need for your best future.
- 00:16:07.957 --> 00:16:13.396
- It has been powerful in researching and understanding
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- The incredible impact that the lord has had.
- 00:16:17.100 --> 00:16:19.469
- Generation after generation, sector after sector.
- 00:16:19.469 --> 00:16:23.273
- It is a book worth reading.
- 00:16:23.273 --> 00:16:25.542
- Yeah. no doubt.
- 00:16:25.542 --> 00:16:26.509
- And as you said, senator,
- 00:16:26.509 --> 00:16:27.577
- Look, the very underpinnings of american society,
- 00:16:27.577 --> 00:16:29.946
- All our institutions, legal education, even health care,
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- All shaped by christian ideals. amazing.
- 00:16:32.816 --> 00:16:35.518
- You lay it out in the book
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- About a minute left before the break.
- 00:16:37.087 --> 00:16:38.421
- Then you will be right back with us.
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- Seems like a great time for this book to come along as well.
- 00:16:39.923 --> 00:16:43.259
- We've got a very faith friendly administration
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- And an exciting, stirring among generation
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- Z in particular, turning back to the lord.
- 00:16:48.531 --> 00:16:51.634
- And it's it's amazing.
- 00:16:51.634 --> 00:16:53.103
- I think this book could be a big help in that regard.
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- What do you think?
- 00:16:55.772 --> 00:16:58.074
- Absolutely.
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- Get your copy of one nation
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- Always under god generation z, the most conservative
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- Young group in a long time, thank god.
- 00:17:04.614 --> 00:17:07.517
- But under the current environment
- 00:17:07.517 --> 00:17:09.152
- Led by president trump, we now have an environment
- 00:17:09.152 --> 00:17:12.722
- That is conducive or friendly to faith free.
- 00:17:12.722 --> 00:17:15.558
- At last. thank god.
- 00:17:15.558 --> 00:17:17.060
- Amen. folks picked up wherever books are sold.
- 00:17:17.060 --> 00:17:19.696
- And when he's not busy writing bestselling books,
- 00:17:19.696 --> 00:17:22.232
- Senator scott is very busy on the senate floor
- 00:17:22.232 --> 00:17:24.634
- Fighting for faith, family, and freedom.
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- We'll talk more to him about that after the break.
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- Don't move.
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- Don't move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- We're talking to senator tim scott, author
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- Of the great new book one nation always under god.
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- You can pick it up at amazon.com wherever books are sold.
- 00:17:44.187 --> 00:17:46.823
- And, senator, you're also chairman
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- Of the senate banking committee.
- 00:17:48.491 --> 00:17:50.426
- It's big news today from president trump.
- 00:17:50.426 --> 00:17:52.595
- We've got this so-called deep banking movement
- 00:17:52.595 --> 00:17:55.365
- Where conservatives and christians are essentially
- 00:17:55.365 --> 00:17:59.302
- Being shut out by certain banks.
- 00:17:59.302 --> 00:18:01.938
- President trump says, hey, wait a minute.
- 00:18:01.938 --> 00:18:03.606
- We're going to hold these banks
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- Accountable. how important is that
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- Announcement today by president trump?
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- Yeah, thank god, erick, for president trump
- 00:18:08.511 --> 00:18:10.513
- Taking a very strong stand against discrimination
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- Against christians and conservatives.
- 00:18:13.917 --> 00:18:15.885
- What we've seen in the banking industry
- 00:18:15.885 --> 00:18:17.921
- For the last couple of years, honestly, is this weaponization
- 00:18:17.921 --> 00:18:22.325
- Of our financial institutions
- 00:18:22.325 --> 00:18:24.194
- Against disfavored people and institutions
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- Like cryptocurrency, the trump family and other conservatives.
- 00:18:27.630 --> 00:18:31.734
- I actually led on this topic a couple of months ago
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- When i passed what is called the fermat.
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- This piece of legislation eliminates a reputational risk
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- From the regulators playbook.
- 00:18:41.778 --> 00:18:44.314
- The executive order today affirms
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- The importance of eliminating the reputational risk
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- From the regulator's playbook, because that's the tool
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- They have been weaponizing against conservatives.
- 00:18:53.156 --> 00:18:56.492
- Great news from the president of the united states
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- Protecting once again our religious freedom.
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- Yeah, senator, what was happening
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- Was, quite frankly, insane
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- To conservatives and christians
- 00:19:05.802 --> 00:19:07.003
- And president trump is setting that right
- 00:19:07.003 --> 00:19:08.371
- With a big assist from you, of course.
- 00:19:08.371 --> 00:19:10.106
- Hey, you're also on the senate foreign relations committee.
- 00:19:10.106 --> 00:19:12.775
- And some more big news.
- 00:19:12.775 --> 00:19:14.477
- Vladimir putin wants a meeting and apparently he and president
- 00:19:14.477 --> 00:19:17.380
- Trump could be sitting down for a summit as early as next week.
- 00:19:17.380 --> 00:19:21.651
- What are your thoughts on how peace through strength
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- Has worked in bringing the likes of putin
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- To the table and bringing iran to heel?
- 00:19:27.290 --> 00:19:30.660
- Well, there's no doubt, erick, if you look at president trump's
- 00:19:30.660 --> 00:19:33.129
- Strategy, it's
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- Akin to that ronald reagan, peace to strength 1.0.
- 00:19:34.197 --> 00:19:37.400
- We're seeing 2.0 right now.
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- Whether it's the middle east, africa
- 00:19:39.369 --> 00:19:42.171
- And now even in the conflict between russia and ukraine,
- 00:19:42.171 --> 00:19:45.608
- President trump wisely and instinctively started
- 00:19:45.608 --> 00:19:49.779
- To punish the oil being sold from russia
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- To places like india with incredibly high tariffs.
- 00:19:53.116 --> 00:19:56.486
- I believe that that kind of pressure
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- Placed on his economy brought him to the table.
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- I'm hopeful that we will see the saving of thousands of lives
- 00:20:02.825 --> 00:20:07.330
- Because president
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- Trump at the helm is getting putin to the table.
- 00:20:08.364 --> 00:20:12.101
- My hope and my prayer is for good results.
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- Yeah, you mentioned this tariff center
- 00:20:14.704 --> 00:20:16.205
- And they're having a great result,
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- It seems, in terms of the leverage amazon trump.
- 00:20:17.740 --> 00:20:20.576
- Yeah he's using the leverage with the eu.
- 00:20:20.576 --> 00:20:23.212
- Incredible i would say lopsided deal in america's favor.
- 00:20:23.212 --> 00:20:26.416
- But i think of the philippines japan
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- The gulf states pledging money in. asia.
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- Versus indonesia.
- 00:20:31.087 --> 00:20:32.388
- It goes on and on.
- 00:20:32.388 --> 00:20:33.723
- Talk more about that, how president trump has
- 00:20:33.723 --> 00:20:35.892
- Very wisely use that leverage in his dealings,
- 00:20:35.892 --> 00:20:39.762
- Which are going to benefit economically,
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- The american people and american businesses.
- 00:20:41.464 --> 00:20:43.733
- And one of the things that erick
- 00:20:43.733 --> 00:20:45.068
- President trump has done
- 00:20:45.068 --> 00:20:46.269
- Really well is to put the american worker first, economic.
- 00:20:46.269 --> 00:20:50.139
- Why is that so important?
- 00:20:50.139 --> 00:20:51.808
- It's really important because america
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- Made the global economy what it is.
- 00:20:54.510 --> 00:20:57.113
- After world war two,
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- We were willing to withstand headwinds called tariffs
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- To allow our goods to be sold in their countries so
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- As to prop up and help their industries get to rebuild
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- After world war two.
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- How long should we have a disadvantage
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- Against the american worker and companies?
- 00:21:13.796 --> 00:21:16.032
- Well, i think six, seven, eight yeah, decades long enough.
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- And president trump agrees.
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- Of course the
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- So the reciprocity he's looking for is actually happening.
- 00:21:23.506 --> 00:21:27.977
- We've seen trillions of dollars of economic activity
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- Because president trump put in place the tariffs.
- 00:21:32.048 --> 00:21:35.051
- People thought the inflation would skyrocket.
- 00:21:35.051 --> 00:21:38.221
- Well, inflation last month was 2.7%.
- 00:21:38.221 --> 00:21:41.891
- If you remember the biden years, inflation by the size 9%.
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- So we've seen lower inflation and more revenue
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- Coming from tariffs.
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- And the level playing field that we've been looking for
- 00:21:51.334 --> 00:21:54.637
- Is finally here.
- 00:21:54.637 --> 00:21:55.538
- Amen. fair trade.
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- Imagine that.
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- And a return of common sense as well.
- 00:21:57.740 --> 00:21:59.509
- Imagine that senator scott. you've got plenty of that.
- 00:21:59.509 --> 00:22:01.544
- The book, folks, is called one nation always under god.
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- It's a great one.
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- Senator tim scott, thanks so much for joining us.
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- We appreciate it.
- 00:22:07.850 --> 00:22:08.785
- Keep up the great work there at the senate.
- 00:22:08.785 --> 00:22:09.719
- We'll see you again soon.
- 00:22:09.719 --> 00:22:10.953
- And coming up after the break, my final thoughts on preserving
- 00:22:10.953 --> 00:22:14.557
- America's position in the world and what the bible has to say
- 00:22:14.557 --> 00:22:18.161
- About that. that's next. stick around.
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- About that. that's next. stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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- As we close out tonight, we bring together both topics.
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- We were talking israel,
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- Talking america, and the history of american gods role in it.
- 00:22:47.690 --> 00:22:51.360
- I think of psalm 33
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- Blessed is the nation whose god is the lord.
- 00:22:53.229 --> 00:22:56.999
- That's it. it's very black and white.
- 00:22:56.999 --> 00:22:59.402
- If we acknowledge god, if we honor god,
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- He will honor us and we can have great
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- Political success in this country, a political revival.
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- But at the end of the day,
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- We need a spiritual revival or we won't get very far.
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- Speaking of which, pastor jackson
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- Longmire is with us tomorrow night.
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- He's got a great new book
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- About happiness and holiness and how the two come together.
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- You won't want to miss that until then.
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- God bless you. we'll see you soon.
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