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Erick Stakelbeck: March 18, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight

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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 18, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | March 18, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck.
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And the cease fire in gaza is over
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After nearly two month pause in fighting.
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Israel has resumed airstrikes against hamas.
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The terror
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Group has refused to release any more israeli hostages
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And has rejected every proposal from mediators
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Like president trump's middle east envoy, steve wyckoff.
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As a result, israel was left
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With no other choice but to strike hamas hard.
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Overnight, israel conducted massive airstrikes against hamas
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Targets in gaza
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And eliminated several of the group's top officials.
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Israel says that hamas had been rearming
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And planning new attacks.
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Folks, the endgame here is simple.
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Hamas must be crushed once and for all.
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When a great evil rises up, it must be decisively defeated.
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Hamas will never lay down its arms
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Because then it wouldn't be hamas.
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The whole reason they exist is to maim and murder
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Because they are demonically driven.
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Here's the good news.
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They've signed their own death warrant,
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And once the 24 remaining live hostages return home,
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God willing, hamas will not be long for this world.
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A big part of that is president trump
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And his vision for a new middle east,
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One that sees iran's regime and its proxies like hamas
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Facing a reckoning and the forces of freedom
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Back on the march.
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Coming up, we're joined by president trump's
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Senior director for counterterrorism, dr.
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Sebastian gorka, to get the inside story.
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And it all starts now.
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President trump is
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Sending a message to the iranian axis.
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In recent days, the u.s.
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Has bombarded houthi terrorists in yemen
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And the president has warned iran's ayatollahs to stand down.
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Who better to break this down than dr.
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Sebastian gorka, deputy assistant to president trump
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And senior director for counterterrorism.
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He joins us now from the white house.
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Director gorka, it is great to see you, my friend.
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And again, president trump
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Sending a long overdue message to the iranian axis.
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How deeply significant are these strikes in yemen
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In particular?
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It's much more than just taking out houthi terrorists.
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It's about opening global shipping lanes.
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It really goes along with an america first agenda, right?
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Absolutely.
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It's about the us economy and it's about one of the
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Staples of world economy, which is free navigation
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Over the waterways
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That every nation should be allowed to access.
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The mere fact
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That more than 140 times the houthis have attacked u.s.
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Vessels in the straits
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In the last year and a half, that the u.s.
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Vessel has not been able to cross that waterway
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Without being fired upon for more than a year
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Is a function of joe biden.
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His removal of the houthis
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From the foreign terrorist organization designation list.
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And the president on thursday morning said this has to end.
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We are interested in global trade for all nations
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And freedom of navigation is non-negotiable.
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And the idea that this iranian backed
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Group of terrorists is basically holding world trade hostage
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And is impacting the us economy because of their attacks
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On civilian as well as military vessels.
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Well, that ended on saturday when our military
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Dropped the hammer on this terrorist organization.
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You know, i said that iran is on notice.
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Is this part, dr.
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Gorka, of the maximum pressure campaign?
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I mean, economic sanctions
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Obviously will squeeze iran's ayatollahs.
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But it seems everywhere iran turns
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Now that president trump is back in office.
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They're feeling the heat, their proxy network,
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Their economy, their nuclear program.
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Is this part of that maximum pressure overall campaign?
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Utterly.
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And all you need to do, i think,
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Is to read the president's truth social post
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From saturday afternoon after the strikes were launched.
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It really is an explication of what had happened
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Under the biden administration that fueled iran, literally
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Released tens of billions of dollars
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To that bloodthirsty regime that sees america as quote
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Unquote, the great satan and as israel as the little satan.
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Now, well, that ends the last sentence of the president's post
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Is a declaration, a very, very simple,
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Clear, concise message to the islamo fascist
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Regime in tehran that you must stop aiding
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And abetting all proxies, all jihadists,
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Not just the houthis in yemen, but all of those
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Who are simply frontmen for the regime.
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Otherwise, there will be dire consequences to pay
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For that regime, not the people, because the people of persia
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Have been under this dictatorship since 1979.
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But this was a message, eric, not just for the houthis,
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But for the fascist mullahs in tehran.
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Director gauck a great point.
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The iranian people are the main victims of this evil regime.
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Speaking of terror in the region,
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I guess we have two sides of the jihadi coin.
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We have the iranian axis, of course.
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Then we have the likes of isis.
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And last friday night, a very significant take out
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For the united states, a top isis leader in iraq.
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Abu khadija, you are, of course, president trump's
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Senior director for counterterror ism.
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Could you break down the significance
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Of the elimination of this isis leader late last week?
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Well, it has to be put into the broader context of what
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The president has allowed our war fighters
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And the intelligence community to do for the last 54 days,
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Which is to simply unleash this exquisite capability
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That is the national security
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Enterprise of the united states government for four years.
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We basically weren't allowed to do our job.
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I can tell you
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That as i traveled across the intelligence community,
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Parts of the defense community
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In my first weeks in the administration,
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I was told that we know where the bad guys are.
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But the biden administration simply
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Did not want to kill them.
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Well, with the first operation
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In somalia in the week to the administration where we
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We dropped, you know, the hounds of hell on
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That isis cave complex in northern somalia.
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We sent a message
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To all jihadists, be they shia or be they sunni.
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And what happened just before the
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Strike against the houthis is that our brave war fighters
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Took out the number one isis terrorists in iraq.
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A man who laughably called himself the governor of iraq.
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Well, that man is dead.
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So the number one person in iraq was taken
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Out by our war fighters and that's part of the pattern.
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As the president said in his first viral tweet
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In the second week of the trump administration after our air
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Strike on somalia, he said, if you threaten american citizens
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And he put it in capitals and we we put it on the lanyards
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For our ids here in my directory in the security council,
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We will find you and we will kill you.
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That's the message from president trump.
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If you are a jihadi
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And you want to harm americans, we will find you.
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And we will kill.
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Director gorka.
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It is peace through strength and real time.
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And by the way, promises made, promises kept.
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Once again, president trump crushed
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The isis caliphate during his first term,
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And he's doing everything he can to make sure
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It does not rear its evil head once again in his second term.
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Hey, bringing it a bit closer to home trend day
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Around the world, the venezuelan terror group,
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More than just a violent criminal gang.
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This is a designated terror group now under president trump.
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We see the deportations in the past few days.
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Can we expect the operations against the likes of trend
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Arugula, ms13, the cartels who entered
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This country, in many cases illegally on joe biden's watch?
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Can we expect those operations
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To increase and more deportation
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Well, just just listen to that hero
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As president trump, even elon musk said this to me recently,
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Straight out of central casting, tom homan,
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If there's anyone who's going
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To get the job done, it's tom homan.
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Under the incredible leadership of governor nome.
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Stephen miller is the homeland security adviser.
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We now have cash.
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Patel is the director of the fbi.
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His new deputy just sworn in
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On monday is, of course, the incredible dan bongino.
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There is no better team.
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It's it's not a sci fi movie.
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This isn't the justice league. this is reality.
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If there is a team who are going to get the rapists,
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The murderers,
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The trialed traffickers, the drug dealers out of america,
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It's the people who
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I just listed for you, starting with pam bondi on down.
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So, yes, as long as it takes, it will be done
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Because there is no negotiating with these people.
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They need to be gotten rid of, gotten out of the country
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Or put in prison.
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Yeah, it's an all star team that is making america
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Safe again.
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You are an integral part of that director gorka, last question
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About a minute left.
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These auto pen pardons we're hearing a bunch about.
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You've been commenting on it on action across social media.
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How problematic is that that joe biden joe biden,
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If it was joe biden,
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We don't know where his auto pen issued pardons of the likes
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Of hunter biden, anthony fauci, in the waning days
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Of the admin of his administration.
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Well, look,
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Just look at the president's tweet and his true social post.
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I think it was monday night, too.
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You know,
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The presidential portraits of him in 2017
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And him today, that incredible new portrait in the middle,
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Who was the president between
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The two trump administration actions?
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And it's a photograph of the auto pen.
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Eric, i'm no attorney, but i think it's common sense.
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The auto pen, which is a machine, is used to sign
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What greetings letters to kids
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Who've written to the president from high school.
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You're not putting an auto pen signature on a document
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Of as massive legal import as a presidential pardon.
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So i'll leave it to the attorneys.
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I'll leave it to the courts to decide. but
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To quote the good bard, there is something
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Amiss in the state of denmark, if you know what i mean.
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Well, you know what?
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It is a new day and you were part of that.
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Director sebastian gorka, joining us from the white house.
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Always great to see you, my friend.
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Keep up the great work, sebastian. god bless.
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We will see you again soon.
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And coming up after the break, former congressman
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Michele bachmann is with us.
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More on yemen, iran, israel, the border
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And why it all matters to you.
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You won't want to miss this.
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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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Former congresswoman michele bachmann is one of america's
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Boldest voices for faith, family and freedom.
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As the dean of the robertson
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School of government at regent university.
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She continues to speak out on critical global issues
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And is at the forefront
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Of strengthening the alliance between the u.s.
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And israel
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At a very crucial time for the world's
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One and only jewish state.
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She joins us now.
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Michele, always great to see you.
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And hey, we're talking a little bit of israel middle east here.
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We've seen some major events take place in the region
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Over the past few days.
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President trump ordering massive airstrikes against those
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Who rebels in yemen, of course, michelle and iranian proxy.
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Why is this action against the houthis
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So important and why has it been long overdue?
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Well, it's important because the houthis
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Have been terrorizing the united states, shipping
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And israeli shipping, really the whole shipping in general.
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It's been it's one of the larger one of the strongest shipping
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Lanes in the world for goods, people, services and military.
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And the houthis are doing this at the direction of iran.
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So there are willing paid mercenary to commit terrorism
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On the high seas.
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And so donald trump has let the houthis know that
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What they were able
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To get away with under joe biden as president,
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That they will no longer be able to get away with.
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And this is excellent because they made an announcement.
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They told israel,
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You will not be able to come into the red sea anymore
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Just because you're israeli and we're going to shoot out
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Your ships.
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We're going to shoot your jets, whatever you got.
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And donald trump said, enough of that already,
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Because our ships have been shot at for over a year,
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Really for four years.
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Could you imagine that us ships, we did nothing.
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And joe biden lifted the designation of the houthis
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As a foreign terrorist organization,
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Which of course they are.
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They're terrorists were hired by iran.
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And so now donald trump wisely put that foreign terrorist
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Designation back on the houthis. so they're fair game.
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And so this was a very bad weekend for the houthis.
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They we killed some of their strongest leaders
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And commanders.
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We also took out their defensive and offensive weapons.
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And we're going to continue to do that.
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So it wasn't just a one off.
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This is something that's going to go on for days
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Until they get the message and lay down their weapons.
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Yeah. michele, great point.
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And a bad weekend, by the way, as well
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For the head of the snake, which you've warned about
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For years, including when you were in congress,
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The iranian regime, president trump sending a strong message
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Not only to the houthis, but to their patron, iran.
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Michelle, have you been struck
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By president trump's posture so far since he took office
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Again back in january towards the iranian regime?
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It seems that the days of appeasement are over.
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He has displayed what i've never seen
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In another president, and that's a sense of urgency.
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And so he's acting swiftly.
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He knows exactly what he needs to do.
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But he saw that the world was on fire.
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And, of course, iran's strategy was surround israel.
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And so iran paid off.
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Every nation and terrorist group
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That surrounded israel called the ring of fire,
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And they funded them
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Because they just assumed
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That they were going to snuff israel out,
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That they were going to be victorious.
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They're serious about this.
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This sounds like the
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Lamentations of a madman, which of course it is.
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But they were serious about it.
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And so one by one, the terror groups have been
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Decimated, destroyed, in some cases defeated.
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And the nations surrounding are seeing a very different israel
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And a very different united states.
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And it's really interesting how god has done this,
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Because as these nations have fought against israel,
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God's strong right arm has protected israel,
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And he's defeated israel's enemies, which is beautiful.
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And so the signal is patently clear to iran.
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Your next your next.
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One way or another,
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Whether iran does it the easy way or the hard way,
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Their nuclear program will end by god's grace.
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It will end.
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And donald trump has all the right intentions.
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And i want to say how proud i am of every single person
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That he's hired and put
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In these strategic positions because they're acting as one.
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They're coming together.
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They're acting as one,
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And they're acting in a way that blesses israel
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Like we haven't seen for over four years.
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And i know even my own children
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Said it to me over this weekend.
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Can you imagine the blessings
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That are going to come to america
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Because of how america is standing for israel?
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So i want to thank all the
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All of your viewers who i know are strong christians, eric.
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I want to thank them for praying,
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For fasting, for doing all that we can do as believers,
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Because donald trump can't do everything.
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We need to continue to pray and fast.
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And i'm praying every day.
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I've been praying very much about these federal judges
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Who want to substitute their judgeship for the president's
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Executive office.
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And so i'm praying about that.
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We just need to keep praying
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And leaning in to what the lord is doing in our days.
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We are living in a biblical period of history.
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So we need to do our part by by teaching, preaching,
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Praying, fasting, and leaning in to what the lord would have.
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Amen, michelle.
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So well said.
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And i agree with every word and more with michelle bachmann
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After the break.
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We're talking about shutting down our porous southern border.
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Folks. the invasion is over.
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We'll break that down with michelle after the break.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck
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Tonight, we're talking to our good friend,
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Former congresswoman michele bachmann, dean of the robertson
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School of government at the great regent university.
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Michele, i was struck over the weekend by the deportation,
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Thank god, of some 238 members of that violent
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Terrorist gang trend, arugula of venezuelan terrorist gang.
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Many had entered our country illegally during the biden
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Years.
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President trump sent them on a one way ticket
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Out of our country.
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Any side of the alien enemies act of 1798.
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What's the significance of that as the left is in a tizzy
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Right now about these terrorists being deported?
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Well, this act that was passed dealt with war
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And those who are seeking war against the united states.
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Clearly, that's what this is.
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Maduro, who's the corrupt evil head,
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The falls, had a stolen election in venezuela.
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He's working with the cartels.
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And you mentioned the gang,
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A horrible, horrible, deadly, murderous band of barbarians.
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He's working with them as an act of war
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Against the united states.
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Iran doesn't just stop with the nations that surround israel.
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Iran is working with the latin american and south
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American gangs
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Against the united states because iran is very clear.
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You know, since 1979,
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When when
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Ayatollah khomeini came into iran
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And the shah of iran was deposed.
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Since that time, all we've heard is the same consistence
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Statement out of them.
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Death to america. death to israel.
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They mean death to america.
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Now, we almost would laugh
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And think, you've got to be kidding me.
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America is the strongest, most military,
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Economically powerful nation in the world.
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How could iran possibly think they could defeat us?
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Well, just take a look at the last four years.
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What we lived through in the last four years.
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And they've established bases, if you will,
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In latin america and in south america.
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And this invasion
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That the biden administration allowed, some say upwards of
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20 million people were allowed illegally into our country.
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That was an invasion, an act of war.
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Maduro, this president of venezuela,
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Was committing an act of war against the united states
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With these gangs. these gangs come in.
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They're taking over apartment buildings.
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Their stealing from businesses. they're raping.
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They're murdering. they're killing.
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They're establishing beachheads in major cities,
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Major and smaller cities all across the united states.
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So what president trump recognizes
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Is that we are at war.
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This is exactly the law that you would want to impose.
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You remove those enemy combatants from your nation,
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Which he wisely did.
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Now, we had an obama appointed judge who decided he was going
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To be president of the united states.
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You made a complete, clearly unconstitutional order.
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He had a temporary restraining order to tell president trump,
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You have to turn around the planes
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And bring these criminals back to the united states.
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On what planet would anyone do anything like that?
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Wisely, they ignored what the judge was doing.
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The planes were already in the air,
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Even if they weren't the he has the full, full
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Plenary power of the presidency.
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All of his office under article two to take out these criminals
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And keep the american people safe
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And stop these enemy combatants that are coming
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Into the united states.
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I am so proud of president trump, his attorney general,
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Pam bondi.
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Thank god someone loves the american people
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And wants to restore our constitutional republic.
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And donald trump is doing exactly that.
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And, michelle, a lot of it
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Seems to be just plain old fashioned common sense.
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And all along, this could have been done, right?
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Biden instead, he did.
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He intentionally, i believe, threw the border open.
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Absolutely.
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The best line that donald trump trump gave during the joint
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Session of congress speech that he gave was that, you know,
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It turns out that we didn't need new laws to secure our border.
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We just needed a new president.
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That's exactly what we had.
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Donna or joe biden could have stopped this invasion
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At any time. this never had to happen.
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Our country could have been doing great.
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He maybe could have had a second term,
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But he chose to put his lot in
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With those who seek the destruction of the united states
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And many of those
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Who seek the destruction in the united states,
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Eric, are from outside the united states,
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Including iran, including china, including other bad actors,
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Including venezuela.
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And so donald trump was we can thank god
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That he's a strong man, a man of his word.
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He surrounded himself with very smart people
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Who are all on the same team.
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There's no chaos here.
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They are working unified to try and get our country back
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Where we were.
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I think what the american people are shocked
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By, eric, is how deep the level of destruction is in america
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From the four years under joe biden.
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We can't believe how we've been beamed, the theft,
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All of the money that was stolen.
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I mean, billions and really probably a trillion was stolen.
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And so thank god we're getting our house in order
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And we're not even two months in to the trump presidency.
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Yeah, michelle, so well said.
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We do have a national reprieve.
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We can't squander it, number one.
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But number two, michelle, it goes back to what you said
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Earlier,
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The prayers of the saints, the intercessors,
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The prayer warriors are answered.
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Michelle, you are among them,
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Former congresswoman michele bachmann.
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Folks, check her out at regent university, a great school.
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Michelle, as always, thanks so much for joining us.
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Keep up the great work. god bless you.
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And we will see you again soon.
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And coming up after the break,
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My final thoughts on what michelle just said,
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Setting things straight and turning back to god.
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That's next. don't move.
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That's next. don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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As we wrap up, i think it's pretty clear
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As both sebastian gorka and michele bachmann laid out,
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That it's a new day for america, both at home and abroad.
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Folks,
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We need to keep the momentum going and that won't happen
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Unless we continue to honor and acknowledge
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The god who made it all possible.
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Some 30 for verse three says, glorify the lord with me.
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Let us exalt his name together.
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If we do that as a nation,
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We truly will enter a golden age for america.
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Hey, speaking of which, our good friend,
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Pastor great laurie is here with us tomorrow night
00:23:09.780 --> 00:23:12.082
Talking house of david, the new hit
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Show and country music superstar john rich is with us as well.
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And he's got a lot to say about the great american turnaround.
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Until then, god bless you.
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We'll see you soon.
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