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Erick Stakelbeck: March 26, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight

March 26, 2026 | 23:29

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 26, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight | March 26, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck.
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And president trump says iran's regime is desperate
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For a ceasefire to end the historic u.s.
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Israeli operation that's decimated iran's military
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And its leadership.
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The president said earlier
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This week that the regime even offered him a present.
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And he shared more about that during a cabinet meeting today.
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Watch.
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They said to.
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Show you
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The fact that we're real
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And solid.
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And we're there.
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We're going to let you have eight boats of oil, eight
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Boats, eight big votes of oil, and actually
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They then apologize for something they said.
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And they said, we're going to send two more boats.
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Now, president trump has proposed
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A 15 point plan to end the war in iran.
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But iran's regime does not seem very eager
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To come to the table.
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Despite that gift the president just mentioned.
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Here to break it down is jonathan tobin, editor
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In chief of the jewish news syndicate,
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And senior contributor at the federalist.
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Jonathan, great to have you here with us.
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Hey, you and i were talking off camera
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And basically you were saying the iranian regime
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Is essentially incapable of coming to a deal where
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They unconditionally surrender.
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Why is it unlikely that they will accept this
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15 point plan?
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Well, it is very reasonable if you accept the premise
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That, well, if you want to stop the war,
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Give up your nuclear weapons, give up your ballistic missiles,
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Give up your terrorism, and then we could be at peace.
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You know, there isn't any reason for the united states and iran
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To be in a conflict, except for those things.
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Yeah.
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And so that seems like the off ramp.
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And there are people who are,
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Say, supporters of israel, supporters of president trump,
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Who are worried,
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Oh my god, he's he's letting them off the hook.
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Instead, he's just giving them an opportunity
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To end this war on his terms, on the terms of the united
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States, you know, of its interests.
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And he's offering them an opportunity.
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And he's saying, like,
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We can keep bombing our little hearts out to quote him.
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And all you have to do to stop it is to give up this stuff
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That you don't need, your people don't need and like.
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So what do you want to do?
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Like death or good relations with the united states?
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And they're like, we'll take death. yeah.
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And there's a reason for that because it is an islamist
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Regime, and it is a fanatical brand of shia islam.
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They are theocratic.
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They are not interested in doing business with the west.
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You remember president obama like to say, well,
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I'm giving them an opportunity to get right with the world.
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And they never wanted to get right with the world.
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They want to be at war with the world.
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That's who they are.
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So i feel even though this is a,
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You know, this is a reasonable,
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Even generous offer on the part of the president,
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There's no way anybody in that regime will take it.
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Yeah, they want to get right with allah.
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I guess you would say jonathan. okay.
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So they don't accept the deal.
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Then what?
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Does president trump finish the job here
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And hopefully cast this regime into the ash heap of history?
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Well, i hope it ends in the regime
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Being cast into the ash heap of history.
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We don't know.
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You know, more is you know,
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Any military plan doesn't survive contact with the enemy.
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This is a very difficult, proble
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You know, they have some assets in just that
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They can hold the supply of oil through the straits of hormuz.
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Hostage. that's a difficult thing.
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Serious people, you know, worried that just, you know,
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One out of 100 shots can, you know, you hit a tanker that,
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You know, makes everybody nervous.
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It raises the price of oil.
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But we have assets, our military.
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This isn't this isn't, you know, the gallipoli,
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Campaign of, you know, the british in world war one.
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It's not even what the united states did.
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And the allies in the late 80s, where there was another effort
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On the part of iran during the iran-iraq war to,
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To close down the straits of.
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And reagan, i think, destroyed half of the iranian navy.
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Exactly.
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And trump's basically destroyed the entire navy.
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And we have more out.
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You know, it's a difficult problem.
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But remember,
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Our military has weapons that it did not have 40 years ago.
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Yeah.
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And so we have the ability and and special forces.
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This isn't they should they should understand that
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The united states,
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If they push trump to it and it looks like they're going
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To do that. yeah.
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That he can take kharg island.
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He can secure the strait.
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It won't be without cost because nothing is without cost.
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But the alternative is well, do you want an iran
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To get away with this? yeah. to block building.
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Towards, nuclear weapons and more ballistic missiles
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That are aimed at the west, not just at israel.
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There really isn't an alternative.
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You know, they talk about this being a war of choice.
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Yeah.
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It's really a war of no choice
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Because the choice of doing nothing was no choice at all.
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If you care about the security of the west.
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And unlike his predecessors, who all share
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This same goal of stopping iran from getting nuclear weapons,
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President trump, to his credit, has drawn conclusions.
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He understands sooner or later, somebody in the oval office
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Is going to have to do something about it.
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And he said, okay, i'm going to do it.
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And, he's doing the right thing here.
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He's not being behaving recklessly.
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And contrary to everything you see in the liberal legacy
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Media, this isn't a failed war.
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It isn't a quagmire.
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It's only going on a few weeks, and.
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Minimum casualties, but.
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With many. casualties.
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Dead, but very minimum.
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And, you know, it's not going badly.
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It's actually going very well for the united states.
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You know, the only problem is most people
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In the media and unfortunately, everybody in the opposition
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To this administration
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Is invested in the idea that it must be a failure.
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So in the end, they're kind of rooting for america to lose,
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Even though
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This is in our interests, this is in europe's interest.
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But they put their politics and their their hate
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For president trump over the interests of the united states.
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That's really
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The core of the debate that we're watching right now.
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It's really sick.
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It truly is.
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By the way, we do have u.s.
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Marines heading towards the region right now.
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So we'll see about kharg island, the strait of hormuz.
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And you mentioned this being a global threat.
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Jonathan.
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Look, i think iran showed that last friday
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Launching a pretty long range missile at the diego garcia base
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In the indian ocean.
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Those kinds of missiles can reach most of western europe.
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This is a global problem.
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Along those lines, as you said, stunning military success here.
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An accomplishments europe has not pitched in, needless to say.
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But israel has been incredible shoulder to shoulder
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With the united states in this campaign.
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To me, israel is the indispensable ally.
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I think they've proven that once again
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During this campaign, especially when we see britain,
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France, germany
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Taking a pass here, when faced with an existential threat.
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Yeah, that's the irony here.
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For decades, people have said that
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Israel is, is a nuisance to the united states.
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It's an obstacle to america pursuing its national
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Its national interests in the middle east.
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It's just the opposite.
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Israel is the only reliable i mean, it's actually and j.d.
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Vance said this during the 2024 campaign,
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Israel is the perfect maga ally because it's an
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Ally that doesn't ask america to do its fighting for it.
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It's willing to do the dirty work.
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Our interest, our safety, our security is involved
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In this campaign being a success.
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And those who stand apart from this
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And you know, their only excuse, their only real reason.
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They hate them.
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They hate donald trump. yeah,
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They're not too comfortable with america as a whole.
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And they've lost their faith in themselves and the west.
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We know that for a whole bunch.
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You know, that's almost a completely different discussion.
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Yeah, but israel hasn't lost its faith in the west.
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Israel is part of this, you know,
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Judeo-christian heritage, which is the foundation.
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Of. it.
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The birthplace of it, and they are invested in it.
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And that is why, you know, within israel,
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Which is very politically divided,
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As you know, people love netanyahu,
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People hate netanyahu.
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It's over 90% support for this war.
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That includes
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The overwhelming majority of people
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Who will vote against netanyahu in the elections
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That will be held there later this year,
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Because they understand what's going on.
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They understand this is an existential struggle,
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Not just between
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The iranian regime and israel, but between the iranian regime
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And the rest of the world, the west itself.
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That's what's at stake here, jonathan.
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So well said. israel is the first line of defense
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For western civilization.
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And america under president trump
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Is the last line of defense. really.
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I see trump and bibi as a pair of churchill's
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In a sea of chamberlain's.
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Jonathan great stuff.
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We'll do it again soon, my friend.
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Check them out folks.
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And couric
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Incredible, incredible site breaking updates from israel.
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Great commentary from jonathan and others.
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Coming up, more on iran and the nuclear threat.
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Just how imminent was it?
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Maybe even more imminent than you would think.
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More on that after the break. stick around.
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More on that after the break. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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Even after operation midnight hammer destroyed iran's three
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Main nuclear sites last june, the regime
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Kept working towards the bomb.
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So just how close did the ayatollahs get?
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And how much enriched uranium do they have?
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Joining me now to share more is mark wallace,
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Ceo of united against nuclear iran.
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Mark, great to see you.
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The iranian regime, its representatives
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Were boasting in their meetings with steve wyckoff,
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President trump's middle east negotiator, a little while ago,
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Before this operation kicked off, that they had enough
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Enriched uranium to build 11 nuclear bombs.
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Is that accurate, mark?
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And how close did they get before this operation?
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First of all, thanks for having me on the show.
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I'm a fan. this is an incredible place.
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Thank you again.
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Look, iran had about 1,000 pounds
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Of highly enriched uranium to 60%,
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Which is just a short ways away from 90% enriched uranium.
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But i think. something which is important because.
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You need that enriched fissile material.
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So what they do is they take a gas called uranium hexafluoride.
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It's a vapor,
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And there's a centrifuge that spins real fast
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And very delicate machine and creates a metal
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That is highly explosive,
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That the explosive material of a nuclear weapon.
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But a nuclear weapon needs three parts.
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You need to have the
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Fissile material, that uranium, to do the boom part.
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You need the ignition part where you have an explosive
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Device that can set off that nuclear chain reaction,
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And you need a delivery mechanism.
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And it wasn't just the highly enriched uranium,
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Which was a key part, but iran's ballistic missile program
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That took off, frankly, after president obama's joint
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Comprehensive plan of action that around agreement in 2015.
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And iran has a space program.
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Now, let me tell you,
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I don't think iran is looking to put iranians on the moon.
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That space program was designed to build
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An intercontinental ballistic missile, an icbm,
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So that that missile could reach the united states of america.
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We saw it already, right?
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They had one that reached diego garcia, which,
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Was surprising to people, but it shows that.
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2500 miles that. travel. you got it.
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And so the different componentry iran was intent upon finding,
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Using their shaheed 136 drones that we've talked about,
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Using their ballistic missiles.
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You know, there's been a lot of talk about forever war.
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And i will tell you, we were talking about it before
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The forever wars, that iran has been at war
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With the united states for 47 years,
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And the trillions of dollars of premium that americans
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And others in the global economy have suffered,
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As iran has had a risk premium to controlling the straits
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Of hormuz.
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The terror groups that had supported the many factions,
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They've killed or wounded the citizens of over 80 countries.
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Shaheed 136 iranian drone killed americans in tower 22 in iraq.
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The iranian drones are raining on europe and in ukraine.
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So this is a regime that has engaged in forever war.
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And i think president trump is taking the action
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Saying, look, i'm
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Ready to do a diplomatic deal with you, but
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I want to end this forever war by taking decisive action.
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You know, and it's upending to us old, old fashioned diplomats
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Because he comes in and he says what he needs,
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And he says, let's figure out how to get here and let's do it.
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And he means it. yeah.
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And if they don't, he acts unlike all of us.
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Diplo talks from before. right.
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And you've served around the world,
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Of course, for the united states,
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Mark, you laid out beautifully iran.
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The regime is a global scourge
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With loads of american blood on their hands.
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And by the way, in terms of the enriched uranium,
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How much is left?
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Is it buried under the rubble of those destroyed nuclear sites?
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And how do we get that?
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There's even been talk about me
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Maybe sending marines in or u.s.
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Ground forces to obtain that uranium, get it out of iran.
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What comes next?
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Well, let me have you and,
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And i hopefully your viewership rest a little easy.
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So that highly enriched uranium, that 60% uranium,
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Highly enriched uranium was about 1,000 pounds worth,
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Which is a lot.
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They had no legitimate civilian use.
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But when we attacked their facilities
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At natanz in this man,
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We effectively buried, destroyed their centrifuges and buried
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That highly enriched uranium on deep underground.
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Now, there's been some reporting in the new york times
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And otherwise it was quite hyperbolic,
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Saying, well, there's a spider hole
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That you can sneak in and get that.
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Yeah. uranium.
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Now, there was another piece of reporting where my friend,
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Jim sevareid is the, former
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Admiral said it would take
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A detachment of maybe a thousand
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Marines, excavators, to dig it out.
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Now, i have to say,
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It would take a lot of people
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And the iranians to dig it out as well.
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And we have.
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Air dominance, superiority, completely
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Full satellite coverage there.
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If anyone so much goes and uses a shovel at that site,
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We will know about it.
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Now, should we secure it long term?
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Absolutely.
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But i don't believe that the iranians
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Have easy access to that.
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We've done
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A few more strikes on some buildings
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That they put up there to ensure that.
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But if they do anything or not
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In that area, we know what it is.
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We have air superiority.
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We will take it.
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Ultimately, we will, take steps to secure that uranium.
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You know, the ayatollah or the next ayatollah.
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It's not clear there is one right now. yeah.
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Cannot have a nuclear weapon.
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Yeah. and president trump has been rock solid on that.
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It's a clear red line.
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He will not allow a nuclear iran. well, you know. it's not.
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Happening.
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It used to be
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That that
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Was the bipartisan policy of the united states of america.
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Every president going back to the time
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Of president reagan, democrat and republican,
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Said that it was unacceptable
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For iran to have a nuclear weapon.
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What happened
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Was the joint comprehensive plan of action, the iran deal.
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Now, look, i'm going to say something that's controversial.
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I believe that president obama's intentions were good.
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He believed it.
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It was religion to him
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That if he did a deal with iran, that iran
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Would just come around.
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Now, there were people in
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His team that
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I am not pleased with, like ben rhodes, who i think was
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Was really not what he did on the debate
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That's harmed our country.
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I think he's responsible for that.
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But president obama believed it.
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But within days.
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Of signing that agreement, i had leaders in the gulf
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Call me up or i was in the region say, mark,
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How did you do a deal that left out ballistic missiles?
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They just started testing and. support for terror.
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Has hamas, etc. but mark, i leave it right there.
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So hold that thought.
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We're heading the commercial too. excited?
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I can tell you down here.
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No, there's a lot to discuss, my friend.
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Hey, more on iran's nuclear program that failed iran deal.
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And what about iranian ghost ships?
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Folks, you will want to hear this more
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With mark wallace after the break. don't move.
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With mark wallace after the break. don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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While the u.s.
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And israel
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Focus on taking out iran's missile and nuclear programs,
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There is another battlefield unfolding at sea
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A shadow network of tankers moving billions of dollars
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In illicit oil, quietly fueling iran's war machine.
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So how is this ghost fleet operating in plain sight?
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And who's helping keep it alive?
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We're back with mark wallace,
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Ceo of united against nuclear iran.
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Check mark out folks on ecs across social media.
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They're doing great work.
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And mark, you've been tracking this ghost fleet in real time.
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Tell us more about it. why we should be so alarmed.
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Well, the lifeblood of the regime,
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The lifeblood of hamas, hezbollah, the houthis,
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Even palestinian islamic
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Jihad and others has been hydrocarbons, oil.
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And iran has violated sanctions and been smuggling oil
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Through a tanker system.
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The antiquated old tankers, they turn off their tracking
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Devices, called an iis system,
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And they sneak through the oceans
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And go to dark places of the oceans,
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Where they do ship to ship transfers,
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To take oil from one ship to another to hide it,
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Ultimately to take it to destinations in china
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Where china has built something called teapot refineries.
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They're small.
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I'm like the name suggests,
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Refineries on the coast of china that were designed and built
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To use and refine
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This iranian oil,
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And that's really the essence of the ghost fleet.
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Now, during the first trump administration, hydrocarbon,
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Sales went down to about 400,000 barrels a day.
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Yeah.
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Just did
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I think i'm breaking news here that iran's hydrocarbons,
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Even now, are about 1.6 million barrels from a high of 2.4.
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It's still lower.
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And through our work.
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Oh, treasury, even some allied countries,
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There's been an effort to stop this ghost fleet.
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I know i can give you the coordinates
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Of every one of these vessels.
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Wow. i can tell you where they're going.
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I can tell you
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How much oil they're laden with and where they got it from.
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And at some point, we had to say no more to this.
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Now, of course, we have our hands full.
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And we're doing a great job over iran.
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But that ghost fleet is, destined to be no more.
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Along with the rest of iran's navy, by the way,
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Which is at the bottom of the sea, right. now.
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I mean, today it's pretty amazing.
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Alireza tons.
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Geary. who is the irgc naval commander?
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Yeah. esoteric.
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Yeah.
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That'll be a true
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Iran geek to understand this,
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But he was a particularly nefarious guy.
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We had a lot of personal battles between him and i.
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Actually.
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We called for him to start looking up at the drone
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That will ultimately take him out.
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And, yeah, i think 20, 22 or 21,
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Because he was the man
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Responsible for taxing every person's wallet
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Because he would send the fast boats, mines,
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The attacks on the ships, he would fire rpgs at vessels.
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And so the strait of hormuz and.
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The strait of hormuz,
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And it was the tax
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Premium to the tune of trillions
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Of dollars to the global economy.
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Everybody, when they went to fill up gas was paying in iran.
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Risk premium.
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I know oil prices are increasing,
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But once this is internationalized,
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Yeah, they will come down much more.
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And as americans,
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We should not have to pay in iran risk premium.
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Iran should not control 20% of the global oil supply
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Because of a piece of real estate. mark great point.
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Hey, speaking of which, kharg
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Island, we're hearing a lot about it.
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Tell us about its significance and possibilities.
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The u.s. seizes kharg island.
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How much of a game changer would that be?
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Kharg islands at the center of iran's
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Oil trade, all of iran's oil effectively is delivered
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Through kharg island, just about 20 miles offshore of iran.
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It's higher up in the persian gulf.
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So if you know
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The map
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Of the strait of hormuz is down here, this is higher up.
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Yeah. and that is its oil facility.
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And we've already struck
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And taken out a variety of the military installations on this.
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But president trump has rightly made the threat
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That we would seize kharg island and say, look,
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If you're not going to allow
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Free flow and the internationalization,
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As i call it, of the strait of hormuz,
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You don't get to have your cargo island and sell a drop of oil.
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And i think that there's
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Some discussion about that, and there are different tactics.
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And the president is really good at that.
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Some head fakes time, you know, he's the order.
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Of the deal in real time.
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He's the art of the deal in real time, as you said.
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And he's good at showing the different potential targets.
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Yeah. president in the military have had a plan.
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What you're seeing being implemented
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Now has been on the books for a long time.
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Our intel has been extraordinary,
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And president trump has acted on it
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And delivered on it in a brilliant manner.
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But i think you're going to see some surprises come into.
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Yeah, i would not i would not be surprised by that.
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Hey, about 30s left.
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Mark, just quick wrap up here.
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Could we see a new middle east emerge
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Out of this with the iranian regime?
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God willing, out of the picture.
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A new middle east, more abraham accords on the table, perhaps?
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Absolutely.
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I mean, the impediment was iran all roads led to tehran
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And all the horrors of the forever war that people
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Associated with the middle east all started in iran.
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Yeah, but i know these gulf countries,
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They are more aligned with israel
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Than the united states in some ways,
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Because they all want peace.
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They're developing their economies.
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They all think similarly.
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And the thing that's been holding them
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Back has been the ayatollahs regime now.
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And that ring of fire has. a ring of fire.
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Who do they look to have a shia arc across the middle east,
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And they do it through terror and killing people.
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Look, october 7th was launched by hamas and iran because saudi,
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The kingdom of saudi arabia was considering
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Joining the abrahamic accords, and iran couldn't have that.
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Yeah, yeah.
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And now they never will. they not.
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Well, mark, great job.
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Please check mark out on x across social media.
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United against nuclear iran has been at it for a long time.
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One of the first sounding the alarm about this regime.
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Its nuclear program. mark great job.
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We'll see you again soon.
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And coming up after the break, my final thoughts on confronting
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And not appeasing evil.
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That's next.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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As we wrap up here, i think about president
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After president seven.
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In all prior to president trump, who essentially appeased
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The iranian regime,
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Did not want to confront this existential evil.
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I think of ephesians chapter five verse 11,
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Have nothing to do with their fruitless deeds of darkness,
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But rather expose them.
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Thank god that's exactly what president trump has done.
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He has confronted this evil regime
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Head on and now, god willing,
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They'll be out the door and out of iran very soon.
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Hey, tomorrow night jeremiah
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Johnson is with us, our good friend,
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Sharing some incredible biblical artifacts.
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Folks, you won't want to miss this
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Great way to close out the week.
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Until then, god bless you.
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We'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: March 26, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight

March 26, 2026 | 23:29

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