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Erick Stakelbeck: March 23, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight

March 23, 2026 | 23:30

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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Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck
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And the iranian regime
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Spent the weekend reminding everyone why operation
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Epic fury was necessary in the first place.
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From attacking holy sites in jerusalem
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To firing long range missiles at a u.s.
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Base and towards israel's dimona nuclear
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Reactor to intentionally targeting civilians.
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Iran's regime once again showed its true evil face.
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Folks, could you imagine this radical islamic death cult
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With nuclear weapons?
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That's why president trump felt he had to take action.
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The u.s.
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Military, along with israel,
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Has spent the past three plus weeks obliterating
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The imminent, yes, imminent iran threat.
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And now we could be on the verge of a cease fire.
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On saturday,
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President trump promised to bomb iran's power plants
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If the regime did not open
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The strait of hormuz within 48 hours.
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Then this morning, the president posted this quote
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I am pleased to report that the united states of america
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And the country of iran have had, over the last
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Two days, very good and productive conversations
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Regarding a complete and total resolution
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Of our hostilities in the middle east.
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Based on the tenor and tone of these in-depth,
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Detailed and constructive conversations,
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He wrote, which will continue throughout the week.
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I have instructed the
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Department of war to postpone any and all military strikes
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Against iranian power plants
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And energy infrastructure for a five day period, subject
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To the success of the ongoing meetings and discussions.
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Here's more from president trump tomorrow morning.
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Some time there. time.
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We were expected to blow up their largest electric
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Generating plants that cost over $10 billion to build.
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It's a very good one.
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There was no dearth of money and
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One shot.
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It's gone.
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It collapses.
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Why would they want that?
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So they called.
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I didn't call, they called.
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They want to make a deal.
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And we are very willing to make a deal.
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Has got to be a good deal and has got to be.
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No more wars, no more nuclear weapons.
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They're not going to have nuclear weapons anymore.
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They're agreeing to that.
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Any of that stuff, there's no deal.
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Now, iran's regime denies
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That any such talks have taken place,
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But they're not exactly a trustworthy bunch.
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The president told cnbc today that he feels we essentially
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Have regime change already in iran, with most of
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The country's top leaders eliminated over the past 24 days
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And its military capabilities severely crippled
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By the massive u.s.
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And israeli onslaught.
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If the regime, as we know it, is on its last legs,
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It attempted this weekend to go out with a bang.
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On friday, missile fragments from an iranian launch
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Landed near the temple mount in jerusalem's old city.
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That same day, iran fired two ballistic missiles
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That traveled some 2500 miles, targeting the joint u.s., u.k.
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Diego garcia military base in the indian ocean.
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Iran had previously denied
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Having missiles with that kind of range.
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Now we know that they do have them, which means
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They can hit practically all of europe.
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Again, imminent threat.
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But what comes next?
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Coming up, we're joined by an israeli rabbi
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Who breaks down geopolitics from a biblical perspective.
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And it all starts now.
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Is the
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Iranian regime nearing its breaking point?
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Their economy is collapsing, their currency is in freefall,
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And the ayatollahs are facing growing pressure,
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Not just from the outside, from the u.s.
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And israel, but from within.
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So as tehran already crossed a point of no return.
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Joining me now to break it down is our good friend,
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Rabbi pesach wilkey, executive director of israel.
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365 action pesach.
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Great to see.
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Was always my friend. hey, you've been saying that you.
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Yeah, the islamic revolutionary guard corps or irgc, for sure.
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The real power brokers in this regime.
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You've said they are now in full survival mode.
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Pesach. what are you saying?
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That tells you the regime knows it may be running out of time.
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Well, first of all, of the fact that
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President trump said
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That they're having some negotiations
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And i don't think that he would be lying.
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Even though the iranian regime is is denying it.
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And the only reason
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They would ever have any negotiations
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Is if they fear that they are on the verge of collapse.
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And they need they need to negotiate in order to survive.
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Because remember, let's eric, until the regime falls,
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They're not gone.
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And their entire strategy is built on
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Prolonging this escalating, raising the price of oil,
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Making it painful for president trump
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In the hope, in the hope that is now,
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You know, is fleeting, the fleeting hope
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That they will be able to survive this war
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And then keep their head down
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Till the end of the trump administration.
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And they could and they could rebuild themselves.
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So but what are the signs?
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You know, the signs that they're that they're falling.
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Also, we see all of the all of the decapitation
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Of layer after layer after layer of their leadership,
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The strikes on besieged forces, the strikes on the irgc.
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And here's a critical point
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That everyone in the audience needs to know.
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We're all waiting.
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Like, when are the people going to come out into the streets?
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When are we going to see protests
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That are going to bring down the regime?
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Let's remember, folks,
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This isn't a netflix show where we got to get to the next,
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Episode before we lose it, before we lose interest.
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The best, the worst outcome that could possibly happen
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In this war
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Would be, i mean, for the iranian people,
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The worst outcome would be them coming into the streets
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Too early.
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If they if the people come out into the streets
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And the regime still has enough power left, the besieged
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And the irgc still have enough power left
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To suppress those riots
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And to still commit acts of violence
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Against those protesters,
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And to set the protesters back
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And scare them back into their homes.
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If that happens, because the people came out
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Too early, that could spell disaster
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And it could set all the goals for regime change back.
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And so long as the israelis continue
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To do what they're doing, because the israelis are focused
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On degrading the regime, degrading irgc, degrading basij,
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As long as they're doing
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That day by day and and those forces keep getting weaker,
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The chances of protests succeeding
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Obviously come
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When the regime is at its weakest,
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So there's no reason for them to come out into the streets
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Until the regime is at its absolute weakest.
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They should stay in their homes until the israelis
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And americans
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Have finished the job of doing their degrading,
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And then they can come out to the streets
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When the regime has no ability to stop them.
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And what we will see when they eventually do, mark
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My words, is the israelis will be flying drones and maybe
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Helicopters over the protests, protecting them from those same
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Those same,
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Besiege and irgc forces that massacred them back in january.
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They'll get air protection, from the israelis.
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You're going to see that it's going to be a joint operation.
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The ground forces, as it were, is going to be
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The iranian people in the streets
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With air cover by the israelis.
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When the regime eventually falls.
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Pesach, great break down all around,
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My friend, and encouraging to know
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That israel will be helping the iranian people.
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They need that help.
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How about a minute left
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And we'll bring it right back after the break.
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But in the next minute breakdown for us, look further.
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It seems to me the regime is desperate.
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Firing at the temple mount.
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Missiles firing at dimona, the nuclear reactor in israel
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On saturday, targeting the diego garcia base.
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It seems pesach that perhaps these are last
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Gasps from this regime, throwing everything
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But the kitchen sink
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Out there before, god willing, their inevitable demise
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About seconds left.
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Absolutely.
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That's what we're expecting.
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And even with the direct hits that
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That there have been in israel and all the concerned
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People have the number of air raid sirens,
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The number of rockets that are being fired
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Has been diminishing day by day.
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The regime is in its dying moments and it is a wounded
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Animal and it's lashing out.
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But it is going away.
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Yeah. pesach. great break that.
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More folks with our good friend rabbi pesach will,
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The executive director
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Of the israel 365 action fund check them out.
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They're also x instagram, facebook, across social media
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And more with rabbi will leckey after the break.
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What if the regime in iran stays in power?
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Is that possible? more with rabbi will look after the break.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight
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We're talking to rabbi pesach warlick,
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Executive director of the israel 365 action fund.
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Pesach.
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President trump's leadership
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Has made a massive difference here, no doubt.
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Peace through strength in real time.
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We're seeing it play out.
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It always works, by the way, but is there a chance, god forbid,
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Is there a chance that when the dust settles,
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That perhaps some elements of the iranian regime
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Are still in power? is that possible?
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We'd hate to see it, but could it happen?
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Unfortunately, eric, it's extremely possible, especially
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Because president trump, from the opening days of the war
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Through till a press conference, he gave just the other day,
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He has been touting the what he calls the venezuela model.
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He keeps bringing it up, saying that they hope just,
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He was on the,
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He was on
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The tarmac at palm beach airport just today.
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And he said, you know, he was talking about regime change.
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And he said, look, things are going great in venezuela.
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We love what we have there.
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We hope we can find a similar arrangement, in, in iran.
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And what does that mean?
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The venezuela model, that means decapitating the top
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Of the regime, but keeping the structure
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Of the regime and the main bureaucrats,
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Mobsters and criminals who've been running it intact.
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Because look at venezuela.
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He took out maduro.
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But delsey
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Rodriguez, who was maduro's number two person, who was the,
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You know, running
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That evil regime with him, stayed in power and content.
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And the people who voted for maria corina
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Machado democratically, and she won overwhelmingly.
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She's not in the picture.
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So if we if that's what trump is gunning for, he's
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Going to have a he's
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It's going to be a disaster because iran is not venezuela.
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These are these are 12 shiite apocalyptic.
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Yeah. ideologues.
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And trump is signaling that he wants that.
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And there's now a report out in the new york post.
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And the jerusalem post also reported it
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That they're speaking to this guy, gullible,
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The speaker of the house,
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Who is one of the most brutal,
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He's one of the most brutal members of the regime.
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He was the one who was who, who made the call to kill
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Students, to kill student protesters.
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In 1999.
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He was very much behind the slaughter
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Of the protesters back in january.
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And if that's who the trump
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Administration is talking to, because they want
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To keep the structure of the regime intact
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To avoid chaos, i understand why they why they think it's
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A good option, because it avoids the chaos of a regime change
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Where the regime falls
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And it devolves into chaos and, and internet infighting.
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So you keep the bureaucracy intact by,
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You know, holding on to it and it keeps
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It keeps law and order, so to speak.
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And you work with those criminals.
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It's not going to work in iran.
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If he does that, the people will not accept it,
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And the israelis probably will not accept it.
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And it'll just mean a forever war.
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It'll mean fighting this war
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Down the road because you'll keep an eye grc.
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I irgc ideologue at the top in power.
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Yeah. and the president happened.
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Yeah. and that's he said that's exactly what he doesn't want.
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He doesn't want american forces
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To return to iran five years, ten years from now.
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You would think again
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That apocalyptic ideology, the iranian regime,
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Is a different beast than, say, venezuela for sure.
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Speaking of that pay soc, some in the u.s.
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Intelligence community, i should say former officials.
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Joe kent,
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I think of somehow
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He was leading the national
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Counterterrorism center for the past two years.
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He's he's out now. he resigned last week.
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But they say, look, this was not an imminent threat.
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Iran was not an imminent threat.
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President trump shouldn't have taken action.
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Israel pushed the u.s. into this.
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For me, as an american,
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I've been following for decades iran's jihad against america.
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How do you see this as an israeli?
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Well, as for joe kent saying that, joe kent
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Also tweeted a few years ago that we should bomb
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Iran's nuclear and ballistic facilities.
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So i don't know what joe kent personally actually believes,
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But there are many voices saying
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That this wasn't an imminent threat,
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And it would have to be an imminent threat.
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Look, the strike on diego garcia, which was,
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About twice the distance away from iran
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As the iranians claimed
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They could hit, and way further than israel,
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That was a missile that flew, that could fly 4000km,
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Far beyond the distance of israel.
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You could hit london from iran with a missile like that.
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And that itself showed that this threat was
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Was really imminent.
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You know, and also people misunderstand imminent threat.
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Everyone focuses on the nuclear.
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Marco rubio, secretary of state,
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Made this very clear in the opening days of the war.
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It wasn't about how close they were to a nuclear weapon,
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The ballistic missiles
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That they were developing at an increasing rate.
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They had upped it from 30 to 50 a month to over
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100 a month, just in, just since the 12 day war.
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And that would provide them a protection umbrella
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To shield them and from attack
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Under which,
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Under that umbrella, they could
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Then advance their nuclear program.
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It wasn't about the imminence of the nuclear threat.
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The people misunderstand that.
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And besides,
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If someone wants to kill my family
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And i know that they're making such plans,
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I don't wait till the threat is imminent before i deal with it.
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Right.
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Yeah. what a great point.
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Pesach. as always, my friend.
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Look, things are coming to a head,
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And i think in the next few days, perhaps certainly weeks,
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We'll get a resolution here. and we can only pray.
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As you said, when the dust settles,
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That this regime is in the ash heap of history
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Where it belongs, we're praying for the iranian people.
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I know you are too.
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And what you shared about israel,
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Perhaps helping the iranian people was very,
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Very encouraging. great analysis.
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Breakdown as always, my good friend
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Rabbi pesach, will you folks check him out at the israel
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365 action fund x instagram across social media.
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Pesach. god bless my friend. we'll see you again soon.
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Keep up the great work.
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And coming up after the break, one of iran's major allies.
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Surprise, surprise, a communist regime in china
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Is even worse than you think.
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Folks, you will not believe this investigative report
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Will be bringing you after the break.
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You won't want to miss this. don't move.
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You won't want to miss this. don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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Right now there are people alive, breathing
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Who have already been selected to die so that their organs
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Can be sold.
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Their blood type
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Logged, their bodies cataloged, their fate sealed.
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This isn't science fiction.
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It's a multi-billion
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Dollar system linked to the chinese communist party.
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Joining me now is john yoo,
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Senior editor with the epoch times
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And author of the explosive new book kill to order,
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Which exposes the organ harvesting industry in china
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And what it means for the future of global freedom.
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By the way, folks, the book is already a smash
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Bestseller on amazon.com, and that's for good reason.
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John.
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This is one of
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The most disturbing human rights atrocities in the world today,
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And many americans have not heard about it until your book
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Will start. general, here.
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What exactly is forced organ harvesting in china?
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Is it as bad as it sounds?
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You know, you hear about this.
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And eric, thank you for having me on.
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This is fantastic.
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There are these kind of.
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You hear rumors about black market organ
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Or operations in mexico, actually in the u.s.
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As well, india and so forth, people
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Waking up without a kidney, that kind of thing.
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This is a whole different level of evil.
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Okay.
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So we're talking about a situation
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Where you have a state actor,
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The chinese communist party, okay.
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It holds the reins of propaganda, okay.
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In its hands, it can push massive propaganda
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Into a system and dehumanize a whole group of people.
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And it's expert at that, right?
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It started with the landowners back in the day
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When they wanted to seize everybody's
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Land and create collectivism. right.
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And then later in 1989, there were students, right?
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The student democracy movement, they crushed that.
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And in 1999 it became elon gong practitioners.
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This was a spiritual discipline, a meditation practice,
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Very grassroots, very bottom up, something communism hates
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Being obscenely, as i like to describe it, hierarchical.
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Yeah.
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And 70 to 100 million
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People were doing this by the end of the 90s.
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Okay, so 72
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Under 1 in 13 chinese bigger than the communist party.
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Okay.
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And they also have this massive power
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To incarcerate massive groups of people.
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A whole massive incarceration system, right, with,
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Reeducation through labor camps, labor camps,
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Prisons, black jails.
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It goes on and on and on.
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Okay, so the dictator at the time,
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He decided to wipe it out, he said, eradicate it.
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Okay.
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And this is what created the scenario
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That you could get this forced organ harvesting.
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In china by the ccp.
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So they basically they say that
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We're going to eradicate this group,
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And that didn't mean
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Kill everybody, by the way,
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And put people into a reeducation system.
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That means break them, transform them, reeducate them, okay?
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Basically force them to give up what they believe.
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But these people proved unusually resilient to this.
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Okay.
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They wouldn't sign the pieces of paper
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That said, yes, i renounce.
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Yes, communism is my god, which is basically
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What was being asked of them. okay.
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And so what do they do?
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They incarcerate.
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So you had this huge dehumanized group,
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They're pushing mass propaganda into the system,
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Trying to convince the population
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That people that were,
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You know, a few days before, considered
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To be almost like model citizens,
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They were truthfulness, compassion, forbearance.
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These were the the virtues that they were living.
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Right.
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That's what determined if someone was a falun
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Gong practitioner, it's a membership.
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It's actually living these values.
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Now. they're being supposed to be pariahs.
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Now they're being said that they're, you know, actually
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Talking points
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Straight at a 1930s germany, that kind of horrible stuff.
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And then they incarcerated
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Millions of them because they wouldn't break.
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And now they started blood type tissue typing and organs
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Scanning them.
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And now you have the set up
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Because all of this information went into a database.
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Okay.
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And you have an israeli transplant surgeon, jacobi,
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His patient says this is an israel now.
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Okay.
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This patient says, hey, wait, i'm tired of waiting.
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My heart is about to go out.
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I've got it set up in china in two weeks.
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Okay, schedule.
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And this was impossible, of course,
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Because you have to know
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When someone's going to be dead, right?
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In a typically in an ethical situation,
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That's to be a catastrophic accident.
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And you have to match blood type, tissue type, all that.
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But in china, okay, you're prematch
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And that's why it's called killed to order
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Because the moment that transaction is paid,
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The moment that $200,000 or whatever it is for
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The heart is paid
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In this giant group of people
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That have been pre-taped pre-match,
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You can just ship that person and kill them to order.
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That's the system.
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We're talking 60 to 90,000 transplants per year.
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And it's kill to order.com folks kill to order.com to pick up
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This explosive new must read book by yan yan yan.
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It's an $8.9 billion industry you reveal in the book.
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Who is benefiting from this?
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Of course, the chinese communist party.
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But who else is benefiting from this illicit trade?
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Well, so here's the crazy thing, right?
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We have
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We know that it's the super elites.
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And we got a hint from that right
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During this hot mic moment.
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So the chinese communist party is benefiting and massively
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Basically they have unlimited organs
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Available to them to that top, top echelon basically forever.
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That's mind blowing to me.
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I think that's even
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Probably worth for people with no moral boundary.
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More than that $9 billion that you just mentioned.
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But it's also people from outside.
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It's people from taiwan, it's people from south korea.
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There was a whole film crew that went undercover.
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That got us some of the evidence for that.
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Okay, no, but we've got germany.
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We've got,
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All sorts of european countries,
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And yes, we have the united states.
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Okay.
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That so people from all over the world
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Have gone and paid, right.
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This industry capitalizes on people's of desperation
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And also their desire when they have that desperation
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Not to know, not to know
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The reality of what must be happening,
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For them to get that organ in a week or two.
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$8.9 billion industry, pure evil transplant tourism.
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It's been called yan. there's so much to unpack here.
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Again, folks, it's kill to order.com.
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We have to have you back. what can be done?
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This is happening now.
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Now in plain view thanks to your book,
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Your explosive investigative work.
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About a minute left, john,
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What can be done is the world aware of this?
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The united states, can anything be done?
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Well, there's two things i want to mention.
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One is that this is the lens to understand
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How communism works and the mind of the communists.
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They instrumentalized everything,
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Everything from human bodies to us over here in the west.
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So that's critical.
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That's the that's one big piece of value in the book.
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But the other thing is we're actually complicit, right?
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We train some of those surgeons that do this stuff.
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We have financial relationships.
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We fund, some of those universities and hospitals.
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So we can actually we're in position right now
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To actually just simply stop that.
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And there's amazing legislation at the federal level.
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At the state level, six states have passed legislation.
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Two pieces of legislation,
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Actually in the senate near unanimously passed the house.
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One, it's called the falun
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Gong and victims of forced organ harvesting protection act.
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There's a lot of activity and at the grassroots level,
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I have a whole appendix in the book
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That explains
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What you can do,
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Because there's you can jump right in
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And actually make a real profound difference. yeah.
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Thank you john. thank you.
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Thank you, my friend, for writing this book.
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Everyone needs to know
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What's happening right now in china in real time.
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Amazing work john, thanks for sounding the alarm.
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Why have you back again soon?
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Coming up after the break, my final thoughts.
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It's a dark world as john just laid out.
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But what about light in the darkness?
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We'll break that down next. stick around.
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We'll break that down next. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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As we wrap up here, it's easy
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To hear about chinese organ harvesting and iran targeting
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Civilians with ballistic missiles
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And get a bit discouraged about the evil in this world.
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But think of john chapter one, verse five.
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The light shines in the darkness
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And the darkness has not overcome it.
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That's the light of jesus.
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And we as ambassadors for christ, remember,
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We can shine that light far and wide darkness will not win.
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God is very clear about that.
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So be encouraged.
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Someone who knows that
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Very well is our good friend michele bachmann.
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She'll be here tomorrow night.
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You won't want to miss that until then.
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God bless you. we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: March 23, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight

March 23, 2026 | 23:30

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