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Erick Stakelbeck: March 13, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight

March 13, 2026 | 23:28

From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it's clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we're witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: March 13, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight | March 13, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck
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And you need to mark your calendar
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And remember the events of this month.
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Because march 2026 will go down as a turning point
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In the battle against global jihad.
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Number one,
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The united states and israel
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Are currently in the midst of a crucial operation
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To destroy the undisputed kingpins of islamic terror,
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The iranian regime.
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Iran is the head of the snake
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And if the regime and its proxies like hezbollah topple,
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We have a new middle east, not to mention
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A more secure america.
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And we also strike a massive blow against islam's advance.
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Here was secretary of war pete hegseth earlier today
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With a very encouraging update on operation epic fury.
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Watch.
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Never before has a modern, capable military,
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Which iran used to have been
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So quickly destroyed and made combat ineffective.
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Devastated.
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We said it would not be a fair fight and it has not been.
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As i stated during our first press conference on day two.
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That was ten short days ago.
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The combination of the world's two most powerful
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Air forces is unprecedented and unbeatable.
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Between our air force and that of the israelis, over
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15,000 enemy targets have been struck.
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That's well over 1000 a day. no
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Other combination of countries in the world can do that.
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So today, as we speak, we fly over the top
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Of iran and tehran, fighters and bombers
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All day, picking targets as they choose,
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As our intelligence gets better and better and more refined.
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Looking up the irgc and iranian regime
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Sees only two things on the side of aircraft
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The stars and stripes
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And the star of david, the evil
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Regime's worst nightmare.
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Iran has no air defenses.
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Iran has no air force.
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Iran has no navy.
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Their missiles, their missile launchers
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And drones being destroyed or shot out of the sky.
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Their missile volume is down 90%.
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Their one way attack drones yesterday
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Down 95%.
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Great breakdown there by the secretary.
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And it is now desperation time for the ayatollahs
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As they face their possible demise.
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That's why they're now trying to shut down
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The strait of hormuz and drive up oil and gas prices.
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They really have no good options left.
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And there's concern that the regime could try
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To activate cells in the united states as well.
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Now, march 2026 has already been a very memorable month
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For jihad in america and for all the wrong reasons.
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On thursday, we saw two islamic terror attacks on u.s.
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Soil in michigan.
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A muslim man from lebanon
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Rammed his car into a synagogue outside detroit
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And then opened fire before being killed by law enforcement.
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Also yesterday, we had a muslim man
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Who previously had been convicted of supporting isis
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Opened fire at old dominion university in virginia, killing
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One person and wounding two more before he himself was killed.
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Thursday's events followed an incident
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Last weekend where two isis sympathizers
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Attempted to bomb a protest in new york city,
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And we kicked off the month of march
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With an islamic terror attack in austin, texas,
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Where a muslim man wearing a shirt
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Emblazoned with an iranian flag and the phrase property
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Of allah opened fire at a bar and killed three people.
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Folks, it's becoming clear that america has a jihad problem,
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And it runs much deeper than guns and bombs.
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Joining us now to discuss that and all the latest
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Breaking developments at home
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And abroad is filmmaker, bestselling author
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And host of the great new weekly show, dinesh,
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A good friend, dinesh d'souza.
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Dinesh, always great to see you.
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And when i look at operation epic fury right now,
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I see something that really stands out.
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The leadership of president trump
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Compared to past engagements in the middle east, in particular.
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Dinesh, it seems he's in it to win it
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Right down to the rhetoric where he's saying, look,
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We want unconditional surrender.
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Can you talk about his leadershi
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It's remarkable, erick, how trump has been, in a way,
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Misread or misunderstood from so many different directions.
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I think the iranians thought that they could continue
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With their drumbeat of sponsorship of terrorism,
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Because previous american
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Presidents have not done a whole lot to deal with it.
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In fact,
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Not a lot
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Has been done to deal with it since
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The iranian revolution of 1979.
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And so they thought, trump yeah, this guy is full of bombast,
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And he will say this and that, but he won't do anything.
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So they misread trump.
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Also within america, there is a faction on the right
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That somehow interpreted trump
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And his sort of doctrine of no new wars as implying
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That trump would essentially relinquish foreign policy.
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He would focus entirely on domestic policy.
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He would pretend as if the rest of the world did not exist.
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And that's not trump either.
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That's a misreading of trump from a different direction.
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So trump has proven that he has taken on board
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The lessons of iraq and afghanistan, but that in
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No way means that he should not get rid of bad regimes.
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That in no way
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Means that he should not engage in military engagements
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That are in the interest of the united states.
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And so i've been quite pleased to see the resolve
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With which america has joined israel in taking on the mullahs,
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Taking the battle all the way to tehran.
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I was a little worried that after the
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The bombing of the nuclear facilities, there would be a
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Sort of let's dust our hands off and move on to something else.
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But trump is quite determined, i think, to finish the job,
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And that's a very good thing.
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No doubt he's a churchillian figure.
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Peace through strength always works.
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He's really an historic, transformational figure.
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Dinesh, i think when the dust settles
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Here, we will very well see a new middle east.
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If the iranian regime is still standing in some capacity.
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God forbid.
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Does that make this incomplete?
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In a sense, notwithstanding, of course, the demolition
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Of iran's military and terror infrastructure,
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Its leadership, its capabilities totally demolished here.
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But if the regime
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Or some remnants of it are still standing in power,
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Does that seem a bit incomplete at the end of the day,
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Or is it mission accomplished?
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No, i think it is incomplete.
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And i say that because if you do the job 75% or 80%
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And leave the other 20% undone,
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That 20% will regroup.
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It will bite its time.
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It will lick its wounds.
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But over the years it will go right back.
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And the reason for it
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Is this
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That the anti-americanism, the doctrine of the great satan,
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The burning of the american flag,
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The sponsoring of hezbollah, all of this is not
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The characteristic of, let's say, harmony.
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It's not the product of the, doctrine of one man,
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So that if the man is replaced,
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It's the doctrine of the whole regime.
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And it's been a consistent doctrine since the late 1970s.
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So, as with soviet communism, you only feel safe
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When the soviet communism itself implodes as happened
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With the end of the cold war.
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I think we need to see something like this in iran. now.
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What follows the regime might be unclear.
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It could be some sort of a constitutional monarchy.
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It could be a symbolic monarchy
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With power in the hands of a parliament.
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It could be a normal parliamentary democracy.
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It could be something else.
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But i think you and i recognize that whatever it is,
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It is likely to be far better than what there is now.
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And we have some reasons to hope, based on the fact
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That iran is a great civilization.
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Iran had a constitutional republic
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Going back all the way to the early 1900s.
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These are people who are fully capable
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Of running their own country. yeah, no doubt it can't.
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As you said, dinesh,
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It can't get any worse than this current regime.
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The world's number one state
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Sponsor of terrorism, needless to say.
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And look, ancient persia, that's modern day iran.
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Incredible, incredible.
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Including an incredible biblical history in that land.
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Much more with the one and only dinesh d'souza.
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Folks from right now across social media.
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He has over 5 million followers on x,
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And that's for good reason. he is one of the best.
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And up
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Next we will talk about jihad in america in your backyard.
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Coming up with dinesh d'souza. don't move.
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Coming up with dinesh d'souza. don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight,
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We're talking to bestselling author, filmmaker
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And host of the great new weekly show, dinesh,
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Our good friend, dinesh d'souza.
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Dinesh, i want to talk a bit about this
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Spate of islamic terror attacks on u.s.
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Soil recently.
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But real quick, before we get to that,
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You mentioned earlier in the previous block,
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The critics of president trump on the right.
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I don't even know if we can classify them
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As being on the right anymore.
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They're so far out there.
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But tucker carlson, the tucker wing, i guess you could call it.
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They encourage, not only encourage,
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Try to pressure president trump to not attack iran
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And attack this regime and bring it down.
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Does the fact that he acted once again,
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Much like he did in june with midnight hammer,
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Despite their pleas and their gnashing of teeth,
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Does that hopefully
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Discredit this tucker wing and marginalize them a bit?
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It does do that, but i think that these,
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This little gang, if you will, made up of people
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Like tucker and candace,
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They recognize that they're not going to be able
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To get through to trump.
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I think that their scheme, their hope is to steer
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The republican party and the maga movement post trump
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In an anti-israel and pro islamic direction.
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In fact, even as i say this, i'm sort of
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I recognize how how crazy this is, right?
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Because at the beginning
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I thought, and probably you did too, erick, that
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There was a kind of isolationist wing that just wanted america
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To look inward and thought, any adventure abroad is bad.
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But what we're seeing with tucker and his friends now
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Is not that it's more like they hate israel,
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They hate the jews,
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And therefore the enemies of the jews become more sympathetic
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From their point of view.
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So then, incrementally, they become pro sharia,
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And then they become pro mullah,
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And pretty soon
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They're taking the side of iran against the united states,
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And in some cases, nick fuentes being a prominent example.
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They also want us not only to cheer for iran, but
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But all resolve to vote democratic in the 2026 midterms.
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So this is the full evolution,
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I think, of this kind of wayward path.
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Trump will have nothing to do with it.
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But i would like to see jd vance speak out more forcefully
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Against it. yeah, of course.
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He's a good friend of tucker. tucker, son.
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Works for vice president vance and the tucker wing, as we call
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To tucker, candace wing fuentes and their megyn kelly now
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Going off the reservation and aligning with them as well.
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In many ways,
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They see what's unfolding.
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The u.s.
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And israel never closer than right now
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In this joint operation against iran.
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And they also have to see,
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Although they're in denial about it,
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It seems the rise in islamic terror on american soil.
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Look, the next four attacks already
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This month alone in march.
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How concerned are you about this
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Trend, as we see even in texas, where you and i are based,
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48 mosques built in just 24 months recently.
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How concerned should we be
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About the rise of islamism in america?
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Well, i think we're the phenomenon were bracing
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For is the jihadi next door?
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Yeah.
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Remember the book that came out
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Years ago, the millionaire next door?
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Based on the premise that the guy living next to
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You might be living in very simple circumstances,
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But he's got, you know, $1 million in his bank account.
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Well, we're facing the prospect of the terror attacks coming
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Not just to america in the broad sense of 911,
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Where symbolic buildings are attacked,
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But in which neighborhoods, malls, hospitals,
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Local communities are attacked as well.
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And and i think that
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Illegal immigration is playing a key role here.
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And, you know, i've never thought about this
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Quite this way before, but in the past,
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I would see the democrats enthusiasm
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For illegal immigration as being a kind of electoral strategy.
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They want the illegals in here
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Because they want to get more electoral representation.
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They're hoping that these people will become, future voters.
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But i think it's turning out to be a little more insidious
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Than that, because opening up the border
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Let some of these terror activists and terror cells.
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And so it's almost like illegal immigration
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Has now become part of the red green alliance.
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And what i mean by that is that, the the red,
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Which is to say, the socialists, the left are enabling
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The entry of the green, which is the islamic radicals,
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As part of a larger scheme to destabilize america.
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You know, i agree 100%.
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We've been talking about a bunch here on this show.
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It's an unholy alliance.
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The left and islamists who want to look on the surface
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Doesn't seem like they have much in common,
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But they have the shared goal of the destruction
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Of judeo-christian western civilization.
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It's very clear what they're doing.
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The left is enabling and empowering islamists
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And as you said, the european model.
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Look at the uk
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Throwing open our borders, at least trying to joe biden,
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Who knows who came in over those four years,
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Thank god president trump has secured the border.
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How about a minute left and we will bring you right back.
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Sharia law.
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Texas recently, 95% of texas voters said
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No, no to sharia, no sharia law in texas.
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How important are moves like that?
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About a minute left.
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I think the issue that has to be tackled
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Is that i don't think it's going to be easy for the muslims
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To legislate sharia law, but what they're going
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To try to do is something like this, in texas,
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For example, you have a muslim proposal.
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Let's say we're going to buy a 1000 acres of land.
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We're going to create a massive islamic, madrassa
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Or school for boys.
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We're going to be teaching from the koran.
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We're going to be teaching sharia.
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We're going to be teaching all about the caliphate.
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And how are you going to stop us?
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We're buying private property.
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And you believe in free enterprise, don't you?
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And we're going to be teaching sharia.
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But hey, that's our religion.
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And you believe in religious freedom, don't you?
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And we're going to be doing a call to prayer.
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But you can't stop us there either,
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Because after all, your churches ring church bells,
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And if churches can ring church bells,
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Why can't we have a call to prayer?
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By the same logic and appealing to the same principles?
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So what i'm getting at here is that the radical muslims
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Have learned very shrewdly to travel on the passport,
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Or to travel behind the banner of western liberty,
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And figuring out within the framework
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Of our constitution, within the framework
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Of our classical liberal principles, how to stop them.
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That's going to be a big challenge in the times ahead.
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Great breakdown.
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We have to leave right there.
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But more with dinesh d'souza after the break. don't move.
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But more with dinesh d'souza after the break. don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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He's an award winning filmmaker, a bestselling author
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Many times over, and host of the great new weekly show, dinesh.
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Dinesh d'souza is with us.
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Dinesh, i want to get into the midterms.
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Hard to believe they're only a few months away,
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But real quick with operation epic fury and just this
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Pulverizing of iran's regime and its military capabilities,
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What kind of message does that send to america's adversaries?
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I'm thinking china first and foremost, russia, north korea.
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We had the daring operation in venezuela
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As well to apprehend nicolas maduro at the top of this year,
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The possible collapse of cuba's communist regime.
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Peace through strength is very much back.
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What kind of message are america's enemies getting now?
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Well, the fact that
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The iranian regime, i think is likely to fall
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With the capture of maduro,
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He's already out of there in venezuela.
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That regime is intact.
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But i think that there is a plan underway
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To have elections in the country and then cuba.
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This would be such a spectacular sweep,
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By trump bringing, freedom to so many people
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Around the world, while at the same time
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Protecting and advancing american interests.
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It's hard to believe this would not go, acknowledged
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And noticed, by places like, china and russia.
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I think they have been dazzled
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By the power of american weaponry.
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But even more, in some ways, that was never a doubt
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About the weaponry.
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The doubt was always about american will.
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This goes back, of course, all the way to vietnam.
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And so they're seeing that with trump.
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The will is certainly there.
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So as long as the republicans are in power,
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As long as trump is the commander in chief,
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I think america has a position of respect in the world.
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The question is,
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How is this all playing with ordinary american citizens?
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It is important,
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I think, for trump to get some domestic victories, to have,
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A renewed sense of prosperity,
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A renewed sense of public safety.
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Domestic issues should not be sidelined
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Because i think that will then hurt in the midterms.
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And of course, if the democrats take the
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House, they take the senate.
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There's going to be a lot of gridlock,
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And it's going to be more difficult to make progress
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In the second half of this administration.
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Yeah. temporary spike in oil and gas right now.
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It's due to the war.
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Of course,
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That happens in times of war, in particular
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When it unfolds in the middle east.
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Could this war have an impact on the midterms?
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As you mentioned, dinesh
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Got to keep a focus on domestic issues as well.
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The democrats keep using the word affordability,
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Although inflation's way down
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Since president trump took office.
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What's your assessment of the midterms now?
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We're about
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We're several months out about i guess about six months.
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No actually about eight months out.
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Hard to believe they're almost here.
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What's your assessment
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So far of the midterms and chances for the republicans
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To maintain the house in particular?
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I think even though the polls
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Seem to be pushing in a different direction,
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That the american people are going to be very wary
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About turning power back over to the democrats.
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I mean, do
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Is there really a sizable constituency of americans
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That wants to go back, for example, to a porous border
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To see crime rates surge in our cities?
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To see, taxes push upward?
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This is a, this to me is very hard
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To, to countenance or to, or to imagine.
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Now, i will say that trump, interestingly, doesn't
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Make the case for what he's doing.
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He tends to do things
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And he does them well, and he shows tremendous courage.
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And even tactical genius.
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But what he doesn't do
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Is something that reagan did, and that is
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Go before the american people lay out the case,
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Essentially make the ideological argument
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For the importance of what is going on
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And say, in effect, to people, yes,
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We should expect to see a short term spike in prices.
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But guess what?
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Iran is an oil rich country.
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Once we get the bad guys out of there,
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If we can get a prosperous iran, it's
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Going to be a pro-american iran.
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And the long term benefits to us and the savings in money
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We don't have to spend to counter the iranian threat.
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That's going to bring a kind of peace
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Dividend to this country over many, many years.
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Yeah, dinesh. well said.
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And he is more than capable.
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He showed at the state of the union recently.
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He's more than capable
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Of making those arguments, much like reagan did.
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It seems like the left today, the democrat party
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In particular, is driven solely by hatred of donald trump.
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I'm trying to figure out where
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Their policies lie and what their strategy is.
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It seems just to be opposed. trump on everything.
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I mean, on day one of this war
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Or on day three, hakeem jeffries, house
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Minority leader, is basically saying
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This war is going to end in failure.
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This is kind of unprecedented rhetoric and language
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During a time of war.
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It seems about a minute left.
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Dinesh, what's your assessment of the democrat party today?
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The democratic party today, far
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From moderating, moving to the center.
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It was a kind of normal rule
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Of politics that this is what you do
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When you've been voted out of power.
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You've lost all the swing states.
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You you talk to the center because that's going to win.
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You independent voters, the democratic party
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Has quite literally decided that is not their strategy.
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Their strategy is to move to the left
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And, replace some of the older guard leaders
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With a younger, more radical cohort,
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And go kind of all in against trump
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So that the alternative for trump becomes,
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Not necessarily some kind of centrist democrat,
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Not some sort of john fetterman type, but rather an aoc type.
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And so, this is a,
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A trend of polarization that has now reached its climax.
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And mamdani is another example of that.
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So i think it's trouble, troubled times ahead.
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Not because we
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Don't have the capacity, but because we're divided
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And they are testing our resolve to.
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That's great breakdowns always, my friend.
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This is
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The democrat party of aoc, ilhan omar and zoran mamdani.
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That's where we're at in 2026. dinesh great job folks.
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Check him out. the weekly show dinesh.
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Also follow me on x across social media.
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Check out his great films and books.
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Dinesh god bless my friend. great stuff.
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We'll see you again soon.
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And coming up, my final thoughts on the state of play.
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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, folks.
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As we wrap up here, we've been talking
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About the iranian regime. will it survive?
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We're praying that it doesn't.
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But i think of isaiah chapter 43 verse 18 and 19.
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Forget the former things.
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Do not dwell on the past.
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See, i am doing a new thing now.
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It springs up.
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Do you not perceive it?
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I am making a way in the wilderness
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And streams in the wasteland.
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That is my prayer for the iranian people right now
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That god does something incredible in that country,
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And for that great, great people of biblical people,
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The people of ancient persia. that's modern day iran.
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