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 9, 2026 | Stakelbeck Tonight | March 9, 2026
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeckand
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- The iranian regime has named a new supreme leader.
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- Big surprise here.
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- It is the son of the previous supreme leader,
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- Ayatollah khamenei.
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- Meet the new boss.
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- Same as the old boss.
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- 56 year old mojtaba khamenei is known as a devoted
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- Islamic extremist, very much in the mold of his wicked
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- Father, who was eliminated by israel last weekend.
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- As operation epic, fury kicked off, a group of iranian
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- Clerics reportedly met virtually to choose mojtaba,
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- Who president trump has already said is unacceptable.
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- And since israel has vowed to kill whoever
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- Was appointed supreme leader, there's a very good chance
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- Mojtaba won't last long in his new position.
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- The regime he now leads may soon follow him into the ash
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- Heap of history.
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- Over the weekend, the u.s.
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- And israel continued to strike massive blows.
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- Some 75% of iran's ballistic missile launchers
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- Have now been destroyed.
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- And on sunday, israel demolished the air force headquarters
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- For the powerful islamic revolutionary guard corps.
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- The u.s.
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- Has struck over 3000 targets in iran and has sunk
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- Practically its entire navy.
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- Plus, over 50 of the regime's top leaders have been taken out.
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- Iran's response to this onslaught has been very telling.
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- The regime is intentionally targeting civilians, both
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- In israel and in surrounding arab nations like the uae.
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- Earlier today, iran fired a ballistic missile
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- Containing a cluster warhead at central israel.
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- One israeli was killed and two more severely wounded.
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- These cluster warheads can spread smaller bombs
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- And shrapnel across a wide range of territory,
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- Indiscriminately hitting civilians.
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- That's why their use is condemned by most of the world.
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- But iran's regime still uses them.
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- Because what else would you expect from
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- A demonic death cult run by modern day nazis?
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- Here was secretary of state marco
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- Rubio today, reminding everyone why the united states
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- Has joined israel to bring this regime down.
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- The goals of this mission are clear,
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- And it's important to continue to remind the american people
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- Of why it is that the greatest military
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- In the history of the world is engaged in this operation.
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- It is to destroy the ability of this regime
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- To launch missiles, both
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- By destroying their missiles and their launchers.
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- Destroy the factories that make these missiles
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- And destroy their navy.
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- I think we are all seeing right now the threat to the
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- Clerical regime poses to the region and to the world.
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- They are trying to hold the world hostage.
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- They are attacking their neighbors.
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- They are attacking neighboring countries.
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- Their energy infrastructure, their civilian population.
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- They're attacking embassies.
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- This is a terrorist government.
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- This is a terroristic regime.
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- And we are seeing them conduct terrorism using nation
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- State elements, using weapons like missiles.
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- And one way attack drones.
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- And the objective of this mission
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- Is to destroy their ability to continue to do that.
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- And we are well on our way to achieving that objective
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- Every single day with overwhelming force,
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- With overwhelming precision.
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- The military, the united states military, the men and women
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- In uniform are conducting an extraordinary operation.
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- There's not a lot of cameras down there covering
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- What they're doing, as opposed to
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- Some of the other images that you may see
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- From some of the cities and capitals nearby.
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- But i want everyone to know
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- Your military is getting the job done.
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- And every single day
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- This regime in iran has less missiles, has less launchers,
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- Their factories work less,
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- And their navy is being eviscerated,
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- And the world is going to be a safer and a better place
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- When this mission is accomplished.
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- Amen.
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- President trump is calling for iran's unconditional surrender,
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- Which is a big change from practically every american
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- Military operation since world war two.
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- Unlike far too many of his predecessors, trump
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- Is in it to win it and to finish the job.
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- Watch.
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- Can you give us an idea
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- Of what unconditional surrender looks like to you?
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- I mean, what do you want from iran?
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- I said unconditional, not conditional.
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- I said unconditional.
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- It's where the great uncle.
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- Or when they can't find any long, longer.
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- There's nobody around to cry out for.
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- That can happen to is, you know, we've wiped out
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- Their leadership numerous times already.
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- So it's,
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- If they surrender or if there is nobody around to surrender,
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- But they're rendered useless in terms of military.
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- Now, the president says he will not stop short
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- Of finishing the job in iran, only to have u.s.
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- Forces return in 5 or 10 years.
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- He's clearly learned from history.
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- That's one reason
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- I believe trump
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- Is the most consequential leader of the 21st century,
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- And a transformational figure on the world stage.
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- So is israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu.
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- I believe he's the greatest leader in israel's
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- Modern history since it was reborn as a nation in 1948.
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- I also believe that the current operation in iran
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- Has shown that israel is america's greatest ally,
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- And it's not even close.
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- Have you seen what's happening in france, canada and spain?
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- What about great britain?
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- Those nations are a total mess thanks to weak
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- Left wing leaders and mass muslim migration.
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- British prime minister keir starmer has gone to great
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- And pathetic lengths to reassure the uk's growing muslim
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- Power base
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- That he has nothing to do with the current operation in iran.
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- He even refused to allow the u.s.
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- To use british bases at the outset of the conflict.
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- Now, starmer is reportedly considering two aircraft
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- Carriers to the region, but president trump said no thanks.
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- Writing on truth social quote, the united kingdom, our once
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- Great ally, maybe the greatest of them all,
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- Is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft
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- Carriers to the middle east.
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- That's okay, prime minister starmer, he wrote.
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- We don't need them any longer.
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- But we will remember we don't need people
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- That join wars after they've already been one.
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- Folks remember the problems starmer is facing in the uk
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- Are self-imposed.
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- Leftists in the uk, like him, have allowed muslim migrants
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- To pour into that country and transform it.
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- Tomorrow here on
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- Tonight, you will see my exclusive interview
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- With british activist
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- Tommy robinson, who shares all of the disturbing details.
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- You won't want to miss that again.
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- That's tomorrow night.
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- In the meantime,
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- Don't think what's happening in the uk can't come here
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- If we're not vigilant.
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- On saturday, a group of conservative
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- Protesters were attacked by a pair of isis sympathizers
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- Outside the mansion of mayor zoran mamdani.
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- These two radical muslims
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- From pennsylvania, who are now in custody,
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- Reportedly had deadly improvised explosive devices,
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- Including one that was thrown at the protesters.
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- Watch this.
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- We were born.
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- And raised in new york,
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- And we want everyone here to stay in new york.
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- You don't have to come from outside and then tell everyone.
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- You have.
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- Of course, he yells allahu akbar!
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- A wild scene in new york city.
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- Now mamdani, who himself is an islamo communist,
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- Made sure in a statement to condemn one protester
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- As a white supremacist and a bigot before saying anything
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- About the attempted terror attack against the protesters.
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- Mamdani, his wife, by the way, is now in hot water
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- For liking social media posts that supported the october
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- 7th massacre.
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- Quite a couple overseeing our nation's largest
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- City and financial capital these days.
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- Speaking of finances,
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- The united states
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- Is in a cold war with china's communist regime over energy,
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- And the conflict in iran is at the center of it.
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- We get the inside story from china expert gordon chang
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- After the break. stick around.
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- After the break. stick around.
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- China's fingerprints seem to be everywhere,
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- From iran's confrontation with the west to energy
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- Alliances with venezuela and intelligence ties with cuba.
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- So what is the communist regime in beijing
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- Really trying to accomplish?
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- Joining us now is gordon chang,
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- Author of plan red china's project to destroy america.
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- Gordon, always great to see you.
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- We see, obviously, operation epic fury unfolding in iran
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- Right now in the middle east.
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- But, gordon, this conflict also has a profound impact on china.
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- Tell us more about how the
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- Regime in beijing is affected by what's unfolding in iran.
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- Iran is perhaps china's second most important proxy.
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- Iran could not have afford to assaulted israel
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- Without beijing's full backing.
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- And we know that not only iran,
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- But its three main terrorist proxies
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- Hamas, houthi militias and hezbollah,
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- They all have large quantity of chinese weapons.
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- You know, china supports iran
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- With elevated commodity purchases.
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- There's diplomatic support,
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- Propaganda support, weapons support.
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- That support is almost across the board.
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- And beijing sees iran as accomplishing important
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- Chinese foreign policy goals,
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- Including disrupting peace in critical parts of the world.
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- Yeah.
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- Gordon, is there anything china can do at this juncture?
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- Look, iran, the regime, its military and terror
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- Infrastructure is being smashed
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- By israel and the u.s., essentially.
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- Is there anything beijing can do to bail out their
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- Partner in tehran?
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- There's very little
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- And there's very little that china is doing,
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- Although it is supplying
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- Components for some missiles and, you know,
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- There were all those cargo flights
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- From china into iranian airspace before the war began.
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- We don't know what was in those planes, but clearly,
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- The chinese were giving
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- The iranians things that they needed.
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- But beijing has backed off iran like they backed off venezuela.
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- And that shows you
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- That china is not the superpower that it claims to be.
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- There's only one superpower in the world, erick,
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- And that's the united states,
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- Because only the united states can determine its own destiny.
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- China certainly cannot.
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- Yeah. we have.
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- And, gordon, you've covered this
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- So well, i've called it the gathering storm coalition.
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- China with iran, russia and north korea.
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- Do you think president trump here has a larger vision?
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- Okay.
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- He's taking out the iranian
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- Regime, a source of so much terror
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- And misery for nearly half a century.
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- But is the larger aim here?
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- And with venezuela as well, and cuba,
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- Which we'll talk about in a minute.
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- This president trump has a larger aim here
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- Of weakening beijing by extension.
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- I think so, and that was even evident
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- In the national security strategy,
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- Which a lot of people said, oh,
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- You know, it's going soft on china.
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- But if you read the words of that and assess,
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- It was clear that they were
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- President trump was going after the chinese.
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- And he has been as good as his word.
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- That document came out in december.
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- On january 3rd,
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- We saw the extraction of maduro and his wife from venezuela.
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- We're now pressuring cuba.
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- Everyone knows what's going on in iran.
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- So this is a really important point that president
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- Trump understands that china has been causing,
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- These disruptions in the world.
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- It's been assaulting
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- The united states, our friends and partners,
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- And that,
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- In order to make the world peaceful again,
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- In order to have enduring peace, we need to contain the chinese
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- And separate it from its terrorist proxies.
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- Yeah.
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- I think president trump
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- And his team rightly see china as the looming long term
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- Adversary, keeping it in the middle east.
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- This seems to be, in some ways, gordon developing into a war
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- For energy, at least in some respects.
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- Over the weekend, we saw israel strike iranian in
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- Specific islamic revolutionary guard corps will assets.
- 00:12:38.653 --> 00:12:42.858
- Now, iran struck a refinery in bahrain earlier today.
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- Is this shaping up as energy shaping up
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- To be a massive factor in this war?
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- Now we have oil and gas prices surging as well.
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- This is,
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- A war, that will be determined by the price of oil.
- 00:12:56.338 --> 00:13:00.041
- What a run, apparently, is trying to do
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- Is to intimidate president trump into backing down by trying
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- To close the strait of hormuz,
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- Which they've been effectively doing, as well as going
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- After the oil facilities and other countries.
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- If the iranians can raise the price of oil so far
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- That they shake western economies,
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- Then i think that they're believing
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- That they can get trump to stop the war against them.
- 00:13:22.330 --> 00:13:25.000
- And that's really about the only thing that they can do.
- 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:28.536
- I believe the american people, if president trump
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- Goes out and explains what's at stake,
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- They will be willing to bear, sacrifice.
- 00:13:33.975 --> 00:13:37.345
- But the point here is, ultimately, the u.s.
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- Is less affected by what's going on, or energy prices
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- Are less affected by what's going on, because we're
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- Basically energy independent for like seven, eight years.
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- We pump more oil than any other nation in history.
- 00:13:50.292 --> 00:13:54.596
- For the last two years, we have, pumped more,
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- Natural gas than any other country.
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- So this is a good story for the u.s.
- 00:14:01.202 --> 00:14:03.605
- We're not as dependent as the rest of the world,
- 00:14:03.605 --> 00:14:05.740
- Such as china, but nonetheless, we are affected by,
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- Panic, abroad. yeah. and iran.
- 00:14:09.644 --> 00:14:12.781
- It's unclear how much capability they'll have gordon.
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- To even shut down the strait
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- Of hormuz much longer, because essentially their entire
- 00:14:16.718 --> 00:14:19.788
- Navy is now at the bottom of the sea,
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- Courtesy of the united states.
- 00:14:21.723 --> 00:14:23.458
- And as you mentioned, the hormuz closing would affect
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- China much more than it would the united states.
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- Hey, bringing it to our hemisphere.
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- Okay.
- 00:14:32.267 --> 00:14:33.535
- President trump captures nicolas maduro back in early january.
- 00:14:33.535 --> 00:14:36.471
- That hurt china.
- 00:14:36.471 --> 00:14:37.572
- They get a good chunk of their oil from venezuela,
- 00:14:37.572 --> 00:14:39.274
- Of course, and from that maduro regime.
- 00:14:39.274 --> 00:14:41.443
- Now cuba to our direct south, 90 miles off
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- The coast of florida,
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- Cuba's communist regime is in big trouble as well.
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- Tell us the implications, gordon,
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- Of the fall of that regime, if it happens,
- 00:14:51.453 --> 00:14:53.989
- And again, by extension, the shock waves, how
- 00:14:53.989 --> 00:14:56.758
- They would be felt in china from that collapse.
- 00:14:56.758 --> 00:15:01.262
- China
- 00:15:01.496 --> 00:15:02.564
- Maintains at least four listening posts in cuba,
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- And maybe they have a small military base.
- 00:15:05.166 --> 00:15:08.570
- There.
- 00:15:08.570 --> 00:15:09.571
- But the chinese viewed cuba
- 00:15:09.571 --> 00:15:11.606
- As an important way to surveil the united states.
- 00:15:11.606 --> 00:15:15.543
- So taking out those listening
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- Posts, including the lauda's post,
- 00:15:17.379 --> 00:15:19.314
- Which was the soviet union's biggest listening post
- 00:15:19.314 --> 00:15:22.050
- Outside of the their territory during the cold war.
- 00:15:22.050 --> 00:15:24.986
- This would really be important,
- 00:15:24.986 --> 00:15:26.254
- But there's a bigger story and that is
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- This shows that the united states
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- Is on the march that we are able to affect outcomes elsewhere,
- 00:15:30.458 --> 00:15:34.629
- And that's undermined xi jinping's core narrative
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- That china is dominating the world.
- 00:15:37.866 --> 00:15:41.169
- In march of 2023, when she was leaving moscow
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- After the end of his 40th in person chat with putin,
- 00:15:45.173 --> 00:15:48.543
- Si jinping said,
- 00:15:48.543 --> 00:15:50.945
- Changes occurring that hasn't happened in 100 years.
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- And we
- 00:15:53.581 --> 00:15:54.549
- He was talking to putin
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- And we are driving this change together.
- 00:15:55.617 --> 00:15:58.119
- Well, no, it is president trump who has been driving change.
- 00:15:58.119 --> 00:16:01.923
- And by the way, we've been driving china
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- Out of our hemisphere
- 00:16:03.958 --> 00:16:05.393
- As well as driven them out of the middle east,
- 00:16:05.393 --> 00:16:07.962
- Because china's diplomacy in the middle east is now in tatters.
- 00:16:07.962 --> 00:16:12.033
- Yeah. gordon, we have about a minute left.
- 00:16:12.033 --> 00:16:14.235
- Do you think she's the strategy now will be to pretty much wait
- 00:16:14.235 --> 00:16:19.340
- President trump out wait until 2028.
- 00:16:19.340 --> 00:16:21.776
- Obviously,
- 00:16:21.776 --> 00:16:22.977
- China has its eyes on taiwan and has for a long, long time.
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- Do you think the strategy now, as
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- The winds are certainly turning
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- Against him and his radical allies?
- 00:16:29.184 --> 00:16:31.586
- Is it to sort of
- 00:16:31.586 --> 00:16:32.687
- Wait president trump out and then move after 2028?
- 00:16:32.687 --> 00:16:35.657
- About a minute left?
- 00:16:35.657 --> 00:16:38.026
- Maybe that's the strategy,
- 00:16:38.593 --> 00:16:40.061
- But i think that they are trying to get at, at him now,
- 00:16:40.061 --> 00:16:43.731
- Because they realized that trump,
- 00:16:43.731 --> 00:16:45.567
- During the rest of his term can change the world in terms
- 00:16:45.567 --> 00:16:48.203
- That are so unfavorable to china.
- 00:16:48.203 --> 00:16:50.238
- So the struggle is now, erick.
- 00:16:50.238 --> 00:16:52.974
- Yes. they'd like to wait him out,
- 00:16:52.974 --> 00:16:54.175
- But i think they believe they
- 00:16:54.175 --> 00:16:56.010
- They do not have the luxury to do that.
- 00:16:56.010 --> 00:16:58.313
- Well, confrontation could be coming,
- 00:16:58.313 --> 00:17:00.782
- Not necessarily militarily, but in other ways as well.
- 00:17:00.782 --> 00:17:03.818
- Trade and everything else in the oil battle.
- 00:17:03.818 --> 00:17:06.154
- Wow. a lot going on.
- 00:17:06.154 --> 00:17:08.289
- What happens in the middle
- 00:17:08.289 --> 00:17:09.524
- East does not stay in the middle east, as gordon just laid out.
- 00:17:09.524 --> 00:17:12.193
- Folks, there's profound implications
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- For all of us, allies and adversaries alike.
- 00:17:13.761 --> 00:17:16.898
- Gordon. great breakdown as always, my friend.
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- Folks, be sure to follow gordon chang on x across social media.
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- Gordon. god bless. keep up the great work.
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- We will see you again soon.
- 00:17:23.938 --> 00:17:25.306
- And coming up after the break,
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- Did you see what happened in new york city this weekend
- 00:17:26.574 --> 00:17:29.644
- Outside the mayor's mansion?
- 00:17:29.644 --> 00:17:32.814
- Radical islam is here, folks.
- 00:17:32.814 --> 00:17:34.749
- It's in america.
- 00:17:34.749 --> 00:17:35.884
- We've got a stunning breakdown next.
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- We've got a stunning breakdown next.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, with war
- 00:17:46.931 --> 00:17:49.467
- Raging in the middle east, the threat of
- 00:17:49.467 --> 00:17:51.302
- Terrorism on american soil is more dangerous than ever.
- 00:17:51.302 --> 00:17:55.106
- And not only from iran and its proxies.
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- Here to discuss the latest is marissa strait, ceo of prager u.
- 00:17:58.042 --> 00:18:01.646
- And host of real talk with marissa streit.
- 00:18:01.646 --> 00:18:04.048
- Marissa, always great to see you.
- 00:18:04.048 --> 00:18:05.983
- Over the weekend,
- 00:18:05.983 --> 00:18:07.084
- New york city, we see an 18 year old and a 19 year old.
- 00:18:07.084 --> 00:18:09.720
- Two radicalized muslims, isis sympathizers
- 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:12.957
- Allegedly attack a group of protesters
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- With improvised explosive devices.
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- Marissa, you do you do so much with young people at prager u.
- 00:18:17.962 --> 00:18:21.098
- And in the education system.
- 00:18:21.098 --> 00:18:22.667
- Do we have a problem here in america with young islamists
- 00:18:22.667 --> 00:18:27.305
- Gaining steam and getting more and more active?
- 00:18:27.305 --> 00:18:31.175
- Of course, we have a problem here in the united states.
- 00:18:31.175 --> 00:18:33.678
- We've imported what we have seen as that clan like warfare
- 00:18:33.678 --> 00:18:37.915
- That we have noticed in the middle east,
- 00:18:37.915 --> 00:18:40.017
- And the idea that it wouldn't make it to
- 00:18:40.017 --> 00:18:42.253
- America's shores is absolutely absurd.
- 00:18:42.253 --> 00:18:44.455
- Absurd.
- 00:18:44.455 --> 00:18:45.489
- You see, the shiites and the sunnis fighting in
- 00:18:45.489 --> 00:18:48.826
- In the middle east, in iran,
- 00:18:48.826 --> 00:18:50.761
- And now we're starting to see them here
- 00:18:50.761 --> 00:18:52.563
- In new york city, and at least in the middle east.
- 00:18:52.563 --> 00:18:54.865
- They know how to handle it.
- 00:18:54.865 --> 00:18:56.467
- We're here in america.
- 00:18:56.467 --> 00:18:57.735
- We are naive about the two tier policing systems.
- 00:18:57.735 --> 00:19:01.706
- And really what we need to do is, is, is get tough on them.
- 00:19:01.706 --> 00:19:04.842
- We got to get tough on them or it's just going to get worse.
- 00:19:04.842 --> 00:19:07.645
- Marissa good points.
- 00:19:07.645 --> 00:19:08.713
- I look at europe, i look at the uk, for instance,
- 00:19:08.713 --> 00:19:10.615
- As a cautionary tale for all of us here.
- 00:19:10.615 --> 00:19:13.184
- Part of that is ice and what ice has been doing here in america
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- To try and root out violent criminals
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- And get them out of the country.
- 00:19:19.090 --> 00:19:20.858
- And yet, at schools across the united states, high schools.
- 00:19:20.858 --> 00:19:24.028
- Marissa, we have staged walkouts
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- With administrations and teachers involved in this.
- 00:19:26.364 --> 00:19:29.400
- What have you found in your work at prager u.
- 00:19:29.400 --> 00:19:31.535
- In exposing this?
- 00:19:31.535 --> 00:19:32.803
- I mean, this is exactly my point.
- 00:19:33.537 --> 00:19:35.239
- When you see the wars
- 00:19:35.239 --> 00:19:36.374
- Happening in the middle east and you don't understand
- 00:19:36.374 --> 00:19:38.643
- Whether it could make it here to the united states,
- 00:19:38.643 --> 00:19:40.745
- All you have to do is look at our education system,
- 00:19:40.745 --> 00:19:43.848
- Look at what the nea has been teaching
- 00:19:43.848 --> 00:19:45.716
- Young people that the largest teachers union in america,
- 00:19:45.716 --> 00:19:48.986
- As soon as president trump got elected,
- 00:19:48.986 --> 00:19:50.755
- They came out with their issues of business.
- 00:19:50.755 --> 00:19:52.857
- And one of their issues of business
- 00:19:52.857 --> 00:19:54.258
- Was the creation of a toolkit that teaches anti
- 00:19:54.258 --> 00:19:58.229
- Ice pro illegal immigration lessons.
- 00:19:58.229 --> 00:20:01.866
- They have created entire toolkits, training teachers,
- 00:20:01.866 --> 00:20:04.935
- Telling them to teach young kids that ice is going to come
- 00:20:04.935 --> 00:20:08.406
- And kidnap their friends. and i'm not making it up.
- 00:20:08.406 --> 00:20:11.208
- You can look at their agenda,
- 00:20:11.208 --> 00:20:12.710
- You can look up scholastic and their toolkits.
- 00:20:12.710 --> 00:20:15.046
- You can look up some of the books i'll show you.
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- I have a book here.
- 00:20:16.881 --> 00:20:18.582
- This one received the scholastic gold award.
- 00:20:18.582 --> 00:20:21.986
- This is a, a program.
- 00:20:21.986 --> 00:20:23.921
- It's an actual book for little young readers
- 00:20:23.921 --> 00:20:26.390
- That teaches them that kids that are, immigrants can soar.
- 00:20:26.390 --> 00:20:31.762
- They can identify
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- As cranes, as birds, and they can soar over walls.
- 00:20:32.830 --> 00:20:36.567
- You can't make this stuff up.
- 00:20:36.567 --> 00:20:38.202
- And so when young kids
- 00:20:38.202 --> 00:20:39.537
- Go to our schools and they're taught that
- 00:20:39.537 --> 00:20:41.872
- There should be no consequence for doing illegal things, is
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- Is it a surprise to us
- 00:20:45.843 --> 00:20:47.778
- That we can't get get ahold of our communities?
- 00:20:47.778 --> 00:20:50.781
- Our communities are becoming violent places
- 00:20:50.781 --> 00:20:53.617
- Where young people
- 00:20:53.617 --> 00:20:55.119
- Don't understand the the concept of a consequence.
- 00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:59.056
- They don't think that illegal
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- Immigration is something that is illegal.
- 00:21:00.458 --> 00:21:02.326
- And so if you take out the word illegal out of everything,
- 00:21:02.326 --> 00:21:05.162
- Then anything goes.
- 00:21:05.162 --> 00:21:06.397
- And and the attack on ice through through
- 00:21:06.397 --> 00:21:09.400
- The teacher systems honestly is incredibly scary.
- 00:21:09.400 --> 00:21:12.503
- I'm not surprised that many parents across america
- 00:21:12.503 --> 00:21:15.439
- Are incredibly concerned about sending their kids to schools,
- 00:21:15.439 --> 00:21:18.376
- Because they don't know who's going to protect their kids
- 00:21:18.376 --> 00:21:21.512
- If it's not our law enforcement that's protecting our kids.
- 00:21:21.512 --> 00:21:24.515
- Who is it that's going to protect our kids?
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- Yeah.
- 00:21:26.817 --> 00:21:27.218
- Great point.
- 00:21:27.218 --> 00:21:27.718
- And look,
- 00:21:27.718 --> 00:21:28.652
- I mean, we have president trump, of course,
- 00:21:28.652 --> 00:21:30.287
- Talking about abolishing the department of education.
- 00:21:30.287 --> 00:21:32.356
- You're sounding the alarm about the madness in our schools.
- 00:21:32.356 --> 00:21:34.392
- Are prager u.
- 00:21:34.392 --> 00:21:35.326
- But can anything else be done
- 00:21:35.326 --> 00:21:36.861
- At the federal level to get these schools
- 00:21:36.861 --> 00:21:38.996
- Under control and their radical agenda that a minute left?
- 00:21:38.996 --> 00:21:42.066
- Well, i think there are some things that can be done
- 00:21:43.100 --> 00:21:44.769
- On the federal level where we need to stop
- 00:21:44.769 --> 00:21:46.704
- Funding institutions that go against american ideas
- 00:21:46.704 --> 00:21:49.707
- And american ideology.
- 00:21:49.707 --> 00:21:51.008
- But i also think that parents, again, need
- 00:21:51.008 --> 00:21:53.043
- To be incredibly aware, and they need to wake up
- 00:21:53.043 --> 00:21:55.279
- When secretary linda mcmahon and when president trump,
- 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:58.182
- When they're trying to do everything
- 00:21:58.182 --> 00:21:59.583
- Possible to protect us, we need to support them.
- 00:21:59.583 --> 00:22:02.319
- We need to help them.
- 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:03.354
- We can't turn a blind eye
- 00:22:03.354 --> 00:22:04.922
- To what's being imported into our country,
- 00:22:04.922 --> 00:22:07.491
- And that includes much of much of the violence that we are
- 00:22:07.491 --> 00:22:11.362
- That we are worried about.
- 00:22:11.362 --> 00:22:12.396
- If you don't want violence, then support
- 00:22:12.396 --> 00:22:14.265
- Those who are trying to keep us safe.
- 00:22:14.265 --> 00:22:16.167
- Marissa well, check it out, folks. prager u.
- 00:22:16.167 --> 00:22:18.202
- Real talk with marissa straight x across social media.
- 00:22:18.202 --> 00:22:20.805
- Marissa great job.
- 00:22:20.805 --> 00:22:21.939
- We'll see you again soon. god bless. and coming up.
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- Final thoughts on the situation
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- In the middle east and how it affects you.
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- That's next. don█t move.
- 00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:35.012
- That's next. don█t move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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- As we wrap up here are u.s.
- 00:22:40.492 --> 00:22:42.461
- Forces are at the forefront of my mind.
- 00:22:42.461 --> 00:22:44.429
- They're in the line of fire right now in the middle east.
- 00:22:44.429 --> 00:22:46.698
- Of course.
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- Keep them in. your prayers are u.s.
- 00:22:47.566 --> 00:22:48.567
- Bases as well.
- 00:22:48.567 --> 00:22:49.768
- The people of israel,
- 00:22:49.768 --> 00:22:50.902
- Their soldiers, the people in places
- 00:22:50.902 --> 00:22:52.471
- Like the uae, arab and muslim nations
- 00:22:52.471 --> 00:22:54.706
- That are coming under iranian fire as well.
- 00:22:54.706 --> 00:22:56.842
- I think of psalm 138, verse seven.
- 00:22:56.842 --> 00:22:58.777
- It's a good one to pray.
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- Though i walk in the midst of trouble.
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- You preserve my life.
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- You stretch out your hand against the anger of my foes
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- With your right hand. you saved me. amen.
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- Someone who knows that very well is tommy robinson, uk
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- Freedom fighter. i don't say that lightly.
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- They'll be joining us tomorrow night
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- For an exclusive interview that you do not want to miss.
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- Until then, god bless you.
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- We'll see you soon.
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