Erick Stakelbeck discusses the recent air disaster in Washington, D.C. and the need for prayers and answers. He also highlights the release of hostages from Hamas captivity, the efforts to secure the U.S. southern border and deport violent criminal illegal aliens, and the impact of President Trump's policies on national security at home and abroad. Special guest Jim Hanson, a U.S. Special Forces veteran, shares his insights on these issues. The episode also features an interview with actor Craig T. Nelson, who talks about his new film, "Green and Gold," which explores faith, family, and freedom. Erick Stakelbeck ends the episode by emphasizing the importance of preserving America's traditions, including national security and faith.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: National Security Under Trump | Stakelbeck Tonight | January 30, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck.
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- And as we begin tonight, i want you to join me in praying
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- For all those
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- Who lost loved ones in the air disaster in washington, d.c..
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- On wednesday night, there were no survivors from the collision
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- Between an american airlines passenger plane and an army
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- Black hawk helicopter outside ronald reagan national airport.
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- And as the investigation into what happened kicks into high
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- Gear, let's pray for clarity, for answers
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- About how something like this could happen in the first place.
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- Well, speaking of prayer,
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- We had an answer to prayer earlier today
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- When eight more hostages were released from hamas captivity.
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- Now, three of the hostages were israelis and the other five
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- Were natives of thailand who were living in israel
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- As guest workers when they were kidnaped
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- During the october 7th massacre.
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- If you had any doubt
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- About the absolute evil that israel faces in gaza,
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- Take a look at these scenes from the hostage released today.
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- The hostages, one of whom is 80 years old.
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- Where completely surrounded by hundreds of hamas terrorists
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- And a massive crowd of palestinian civilians
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- Who were chanting for their deaths.
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- They barely made it out of gaza
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- And back to israel in one piece.
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- It was a scene of absolute demonic mayhem.
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- Take a look
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- The big takeaway from that horrific footage.
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- It wasn't just hamas.
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- Large numbers of everyday palestinians
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- Were in on the madness,
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- Just as they were during the october seven massacre,
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- When thousands of palestinian civilians
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- Stormed into southern israel and wreaked havoc right
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- Along with hamas.
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- Folks, let's just tell it like it is.
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- Gaza right now is home to a brainwashed
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- Death cult from hamas right on down
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- To a very large number of the palestinian civilians
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- That the mainstream media tells us are so in a.
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- It's no wonder president trump has suggested
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- Relocating palestinians from gaza, rebuilding it
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- And starting fresh in that tiny strip of land
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- That's been home to so much misery and extremism.
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- Speaking of relocating bad actors, president trump
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- Announced on wednesday that some of the worst
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- Violent criminal illegal aliens that ice is in the process
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- Of rounding up will be sent to guantanamo bay, cuba,
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- Which has facilities capable of housing up
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- To 30,000 of the worst of the worst.
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- Again, these are people convicted of murder, rape,
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- Crimes against children and all manner of depravity
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- Who were running free on our streets after crossing
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- Into america illegally on joe biden's watch.
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- One such illegal alien from venezuela brutally murdered
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- A georgia nursing student named laken reilly yesterday.
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- President trump signed the lake and riley act
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- Into law holding criminal illegals accountable.
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- And he did it alongside lake inn's mother.
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- Take a look.
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- He said he would secure our borders
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- And that he would never forget about lincoln.
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- And he hasn't.
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- He's a man of his word, trust
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- That he will fight for the american people.
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- Most importantly, i want to thank
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- Our lord and savior jesus christ,
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- Because without his sacrifice, this lincoln story would
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- Have ended on that horrific day that she was taken from us.
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- But because of him, we can continue living knowing
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- That we will see that you, given.
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- God bless that brave woman.
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- The trump administration is very serious
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- About keeping his campaign promise to stop the invasion
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- At our southern border and to arrest and deport
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- Violent criminals who are here illegally.
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- Here's vice president j.d.
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- Vance breaking down some of the progress that they're making.
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- If you look at the
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- Number of illegal entries on january
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- The 19th, the last day of the democrats administration,
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- I believe the number was north of 1300 illegal entries.
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- Five days later, we had already cut that by more than 60%.
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- And i guarantee we're going to cut it even further.
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- It policy matters.
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- Elections have consequences.
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- And president trump ran explicitly on regaining control
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- Of the border and delivering american prosperity.
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- That's exactly what we're doing.
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- It's a new day in america.
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- For the first time in a long time, evil is on the run.
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- But there is still much work to be done.
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- Up next, we're joined by a u.s.
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- Special forces veteran
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- Who breaks down the state of play at home and abroad.
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- And why it matters to you.
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- And it all starts now.
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- From the
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- Disaster wednesday night at reagan national airport
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- To the hostage
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- Release in gaza and confirmation hearings on capitol hill,
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- It has been a very busy 24 hours of news.
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- And joining us now to break it all down
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- Is jim hanson, president of world
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- Strategy chief editor for middle east forum and a u.s.
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- Army special forces veteran.
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- Jim, great to have you.
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- Hey, we don't yet know the exact causes
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- Behind the horrible action last night at reagan airport,
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- But president trump today called attention to a larger problem
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- At the federal aviation administration.
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- Let's take a look.
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- The faa is actively recruiting workers who suffer severe
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- Intellectual disabilities, psychiatric problems
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- And other mental and physical conditions
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- Under a diversity and inclusion hiring initiative spelled out
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- On the agency's website.
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- Can you imagine various articles
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- That appeared prior to my entering office?
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- And here's one.
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- The faa's diversity push includes focus on hiring people
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- With severe intellectual and psychiatric disabilities.
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- That is amazing.
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- And then it says faa says people with severe disabilities
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- Are most underrepresented segment of the workforce.
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- And they want them in and they want them.
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- They can be air traffic controllers.
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- I don't think so.
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- Jim, this whole dni push under joe biden was madness
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- And it even extended to our military, number one.
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- How bad did it get?
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- And number two, how relieved should we be as americans that
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- President trump is doing away with this nonsense?
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- I was stunned when i actually heard those words
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- And then went back and looked to see
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- If the job descriptions he was talking about were there.
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- It's not that i believe the president was lying.
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- It was just too difficult to believe
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- That they would be actively recruiting
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- For one of the most taxing and mentally and even
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- Physically challenging professions of life.
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- And death priority as air traffic control.
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- It's madness.
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- And i think whether or not that was directly responsible
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- For this incident, we have no idea.
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- But it creates a culture and a mindset where the emphasis
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- Is not on merit or competence or ability.
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- The emphasis is on equity, and that's a nightmare.
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- And it's dangerous, jim.
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- And you know the military so well,
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- And this was rampant even at the pentagon.
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- Hey, speaking of qualified people, kash patel, up
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- For fbi director.
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- Tulsi gabbard,
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- Director of national intelligence
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- Confirmation hearings on capitol hill today.
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- They're being grilled.
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- Jim, why are they the right people for the jobs?
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- And why is it so important to overhaul
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- Our intelligence community?
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- They have basically been chosen
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- To empty out decades worth of deep state permanent
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- Bureaucracy infestation, and people
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- Who don't want to believe that 95% of the political donations
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- From the government workers go to democrats.
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- They've taken that and created unto themselves
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- A layer from probably the second or third
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- Layer down of all our agencies
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- That is not responsive to the person,
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- The people elected to run the country.
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- The president and his exact lives,
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- But to themselves and their own leftist ideology.
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- And these are committed people.
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- Kash patel and tulsi
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- Gabbard are going to clear those people out.
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- One of the executive orders allows more career
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- Level bureaucrats to be moved out
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- In favor of people
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- Who will actually execute the president's orders.
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- And we need it desperately.
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- Yeah. jim, it's time to shake things up.
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- And by the way, you're talking about that every day on x,
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- Be sure to follow jim on x and across social media.
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- Your top national security expert, jim.
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- And when
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- It comes to national security, you really can't have it
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- If you don't have a secure border.
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- Thankfully, president trump is getting that
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- Under control, deporting violent criminal illegal aliens.
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- Have you been encouraged
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- By what you've seen on the southern border
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- Over the past ten, 11 days since president trump was sworn in?
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- I got to tell you,
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- Eric, i was always scared and unwilling to pay attention
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- To how bad the border was because it just depressed me.
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- We were doing nothing about it for so long.
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- We had an invasion from the south
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- And since president trump came in, that's
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- One of the greatest promises he has delivered on.
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- He immediately empowered his people
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- To go ahead and grab the worst of the offenders,
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- People who were raping, murdering, killing,
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- You know, doing horrible things to american citizens,
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- Get them on planes and get them out of our country.
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- I think one of the more interesting things
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- I heard pete hegseth announced at a press conference yesterday,
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- There are 30,000 spots in gitmo
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- Where they can take the worst of these
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- Until they get sorted out where their final destination is.
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- So we're going to start just rounding them up,
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- Sending them down to gitmo and then getting
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- Their travel plans sorted out from there.
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- I think it's beautiful.
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- I think the american people are going to appreciate
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- Having fewer criminals in their midst.
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- Jim, about 30 seconds till the break.
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- Then we will bring you right back the terror threat
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- At the southern border.
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- I mean, it goes without saying.
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- They have a wide open southern border.
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- You're just inviting the worst of the worst,
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- Not just from latin america,
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- But from islamic terror sponsors to enter the united states.
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- And they knew that.
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- They knew there were hundreds of people who were on the terror
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- Watch lists who crossed the southern border.
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- And the biden administration did nothing about it.
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- That has come to a screeching halt.
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- And we're going you can't be a nation state
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- Unless you have a secure border and once again,
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- The united states will become a nation state.
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- Yeah, jim, well said.
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- Making america safe again, making america safe again.
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- And coming up after the break.
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- More with jim hanson about the trump effect
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- Not only here at home, but the impact
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- It's having in europe right now.
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- And what about that hostage release?
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- Israel, hamas, some chaotic scenes today in gaza.
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- Mourn that with national security
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- Expert jim hanson after the break. don't move.
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- Expert jim hanson after the break. don't move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- We're talking to jim hanson, president of world
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- Strat and chief editor of middle east forum.
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- Jim, we talk about the trump effect
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- Not only here at home but also abroad.
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- Very interesting comments
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- Recently by the former home secretary of the u.k.
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- Suella braverman about the turn that europe, the not so good
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- Turn that europe has taken thanks to their open borders.
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- Take a look.
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- Vice president j.d.
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- Vance said
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- At the national conservative conference,
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- Which i also spoke in the summer here in d.c., that the u.k.
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- Was going to be
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- The first islamist nation with nuclear weapons.
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- I don't think he was entirely joking.
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- It is it is it an impossibility that 20 years from now
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- It will be the u.k., not china or russia,
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- That will emerge as the greatest strategic threat to the u.s.
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- Born out of a broken relationship
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- And weak leadership.
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- Jim, that's quite a statement
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- From the former home secretary of the u.k.
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- And it's not hard to see why.
- 00:12:54.696 --> 00:12:56.531
- Look, europe's open borders strategy has been madness.
- 00:12:56.531 --> 00:12:59.434
- We went far down the road of insanity under biden-harris.
- 00:12:59.434 --> 00:13:02.604
- That's getting straightened out now.
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- Can donald trump's return to office perhaps galvanize
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- And lead to a rightward turn and common
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- Sense in europe?
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- I wonder if the u.k.
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- Is capable of recovering.
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- You know, they are probably the least
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- Comfortable with their own skin.
- 00:13:22.790 --> 00:13:25.159
- You know,
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- They've lost the ability to believe in their own culture
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- And they've submitted to their islamist migrants.
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- And so at this point, that fear has stopped them from
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- Being any kind of a viable nation state.
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- And i don't know if they can recover,
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- But i do know that
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- The rest of europe is is listening to trump's message
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- And in their own way, has enough nationalist pride to go ahead
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- And say that we are not going to just bow down to the e.u.
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- And their importation
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- Of people
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- Who don't share the values of our country
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- And aren't willing to assimilate.
- 00:13:57.692 --> 00:13:59.260
- It's happening in germany and sweden.
- 00:13:59.260 --> 00:14:01.095
- They're paying migrants to leave $35,000 to leave.
- 00:14:01.095 --> 00:14:05.066
- So i think there is an ongoing movement
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- In italy and other places where there's a resurgence
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- Of the belief that their own cultures
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- Are worth standing up for.
- 00:14:13.341 --> 00:14:14.642
- Yeah. jim, it's encouraging to watch.
- 00:14:14.642 --> 00:14:16.210
- But the u.k., as you said, just maddening.
- 00:14:16.210 --> 00:14:18.246
- It's cultural suicide.
- 00:14:18.246 --> 00:14:20.014
- Hey, speaking of national pride,
- 00:14:20.014 --> 00:14:21.916
- Hostages came home to israel today.
- 00:14:21.916 --> 00:14:24.786
- But we saw scenes of absolute depravity and evil
- 00:14:24.786 --> 00:14:27.922
- In gaza swarming these hostages as they're being released.
- 00:14:27.922 --> 00:14:31.693
- And not just hamas,
- 00:14:31.693 --> 00:14:32.760
- But those so-called innocent palestinian civilians.
- 00:14:32.760 --> 00:14:36.230
- Jim, president trump has thrown out
- 00:14:36.230 --> 00:14:37.832
- The idea of relocating gazans in recent days
- 00:14:37.832 --> 00:14:40.668
- And using his term to clean out gaza.
- 00:14:40.668 --> 00:14:43.604
- What do you think?
- 00:14:43.604 --> 00:14:44.439
- What is a tough one, right, guys?
- 00:14:44.439 --> 00:14:46.607
- Has been a thorn in the side for centuries.
- 00:14:46.607 --> 00:14:49.010
- But is that a feasible plan?
- 00:14:49.010 --> 00:14:50.712
- What president trump suggested?
- 00:14:50.712 --> 00:14:53.948
- You know, i think no one would be happier than the israelis
- 00:14:53.948 --> 00:14:56.684
- To have a genocidal death cult off of their border.
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- The jordanians and egyptians, not so much.
- 00:15:00.788 --> 00:15:04.325
- They know the danger
- 00:15:04.325 --> 00:15:05.927
- And the poison that the palestinians represent.
- 00:15:05.927 --> 00:15:10.365
- Their entire culture is born around the idea of pushing
- 00:15:10.365 --> 00:15:13.868
- All the jews into the sea and claiming israel as palestine.
- 00:15:13.868 --> 00:15:17.772
- So i don't know that he can make that happen.
- 00:15:17.772 --> 00:15:20.041
- I think laying it on the table shows the reality
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- That we're not going to allow,
- 00:15:23.144 --> 00:15:25.046
- You know, things that have been tried in the past
- 00:15:25.046 --> 00:15:26.781
- To be the only things we'll try again.
- 00:15:26.781 --> 00:15:28.783
- We're going
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- To put everything on the table in order to try and make it
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- So that israel can live in peace with whatever it takes,
- 00:15:32.620 --> 00:15:35.990
- Whether it's a caretaker state
- 00:15:35.990 --> 00:15:37.358
- Or whatever has to happen for the palestinians,
- 00:15:37.358 --> 00:15:39.594
- Since they don't seem capable of self-governance
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- In a civilized way.
- 00:15:42.563 --> 00:15:44.632
- Yeah, it's outside the box
- 00:15:44.632 --> 00:15:46.167
- Thinking, which is sorely needed. jim.
- 00:15:46.167 --> 00:15:47.802
- And we saw that in trump's
- 00:15:47.802 --> 00:15:49.203
- First term with the abraham accords as well.
- 00:15:49.203 --> 00:15:51.139
- Hey, last question about 30 seconds left.
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- Iran's nuclear program.
- 00:15:54.008 --> 00:15:56.477
- Big danger right now with trump back in office
- 00:15:56.477 --> 00:15:58.679
- And that ring of fire largely smashed.
- 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:01.249
- Big trouble, i should say, for the mullahs.
- 00:16:01.249 --> 00:16:04.585
- Yeah, there there expiration date is past.
- 00:16:04.585 --> 00:16:07.522
- And i think there's no interest from the united states
- 00:16:07.522 --> 00:16:11.059
- Or anyone else in a regime change from outside.
- 00:16:11.059 --> 00:16:14.028
- But i think the people of iran deserve better governance,
- 00:16:14.028 --> 00:16:16.831
- And they're as aware of that as anyone.
- 00:16:16.831 --> 00:16:19.067
- I think there may
- 00:16:19.067 --> 00:16:20.168
- Be some internal stirrings and the islamic republic
- 00:16:20.168 --> 00:16:23.838
- May move down the road to the ash heap of history
- 00:16:23.838 --> 00:16:26.941
- Where it belongs.
- 00:16:26.941 --> 00:16:27.942
- Yeah, god willing, jim, great stuff all around.
- 00:16:27.942 --> 00:16:30.044
- Be sure to follow jim on x, jim.
- 00:16:30.044 --> 00:16:31.712
- God bless my friend. we will see you again soon.
- 00:16:31.712 --> 00:16:33.714
- And coming up after the break, actor craig t nelson is here
- 00:16:33.714 --> 00:16:37.485
- To talk about his new film, which is all about faith, family
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- And freedom. it's in theaters tomorrow, folks.
- 00:16:41.656 --> 00:16:43.724
- You are going to want to see this. stick around.
- 00:16:43.724 --> 00:16:47.002
- You are going to want to see this. stick around.
- 00:16:47.002 --> 00:16:49.864
- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight,
- 00:16:50.631 --> 00:16:52.467
- Faith, family and freedom.
- 00:16:52.467 --> 00:16:55.136
- Those are three qualities that made america great.
- 00:16:55.136 --> 00:16:58.005
- And they are at the very heart of the new film green and gold.
- 00:16:58.005 --> 00:17:01.809
- It's a story
- 00:17:01.809 --> 00:17:03.010
- About the unsung american heroes who make our country run.
- 00:17:03.010 --> 00:17:06.547
- And it's also a story
- 00:17:06.547 --> 00:17:07.882
- About losing and regaining the american dream.
- 00:17:07.882 --> 00:17:11.252
- And of course, it's about football
- 00:17:11.252 --> 00:17:13.287
- And the crazy cheeseheads who made the green bay packers
- 00:17:13.287 --> 00:17:16.257
- One of america's most beloved teams.
- 00:17:16.257 --> 00:17:18.359
- Now green and gold hits theaters this friday, january 31st,
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- And features a powerhouse performance from craig nelson.
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- Here's a sneak peek.
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- For my grandpa, buck, farming wasn't a. job.
- 00:17:28.369 --> 00:17:31.139
- Easy, easy.
- 00:17:31.139 --> 00:17:32.373
- It was a sacred act.
- 00:17:32.373 --> 00:17:34.342
- I couldn't do farming anymore.
- 00:17:34.342 --> 00:17:35.710
- I was on my way out for some bigger dreams.
- 00:17:35.710 --> 00:17:38.379
- This ain't your land.
- 00:17:38.379 --> 00:17:39.547
- Well, when. you don't pay your loan. it becomes my land.
- 00:17:39.547 --> 00:17:43.284
- How much do we owe the bank?
- 00:17:43.284 --> 00:17:44.452
- I will make a little wager with you.
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- Back all the way.
- 00:17:46.387 --> 00:17:47.388
- I will give you another year interest free.
- 00:17:47.388 --> 00:17:49.924
- And if they lose, you sign everything over to me.
- 00:17:49.924 --> 00:17:53.694
- Take it
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- With stories and.
- 00:17:55.997 --> 00:17:57.999
- Granddaughters through the town.
- 00:17:57.999 --> 00:17:59.567
- Yeah, i know that trip to utah.
- 00:17:59.567 --> 00:18:02.170
- And i will cut you like a ten pointer.
- 00:18:02.170 --> 00:18:04.505
- Great.
- 00:18:04.505 --> 00:18:06.474
- You're chasing your hopes and your dreams for you who you are.
- 00:18:06.474 --> 00:18:10.178
- And you lose everything that's wild and free.
- 00:18:10.178 --> 00:18:16.117
- You still believe in what i.
- 00:18:16.117 --> 00:18:18.119
- More than anything,
- 00:18:18.119 --> 00:18:23.224
- I go back. oh,
- 00:18:23.224 --> 00:18:29.330
- Powerful stuff, folks.
- 00:18:29.330 --> 00:18:30.398
- It's a great film.
- 00:18:30.398 --> 00:18:31.566
- And joining us now is one of the stars of green and gold.
- 00:18:31.566 --> 00:18:34.168
- Craig nelson is here. craig, great to have you.
- 00:18:34.168 --> 00:18:36.737
- You play buck a determined,
- 00:18:36.737 --> 00:18:38.973
- I would say,
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- Wisconsin farmer who's fighting for his family legacy.
- 00:18:40.074 --> 00:18:42.944
- One of the things i love about the film, craig, is the setting,
- 00:18:42.944 --> 00:18:45.880
- The rural areas, the farms of wisconsin.
- 00:18:45.880 --> 00:18:49.350
- This is a real american story about real american people.
- 00:18:49.350 --> 00:18:53.321
- Is that one of the things that drew you to the story?
- 00:18:53.321 --> 00:18:55.990
- It's an underdog story, a story about the unsung heroes.
- 00:18:55.990 --> 00:18:59.627
- The script was so well done, and there were just
- 00:18:59.627 --> 00:19:02.830
- A couple of things that i thought the
- 00:19:02.830 --> 00:19:04.632
- Faith journey that he goes on but is really interesting
- 00:19:04.632 --> 00:19:08.836
- Because he's struggling
- 00:19:08.836 --> 00:19:09.770
- So hard for him to even form a relationship.
- 00:19:09.770 --> 00:19:13.507
- The only relationship he really has
- 00:19:13.507 --> 00:19:16.110
- Is with the animals and the land that i think
- 00:19:16.110 --> 00:19:18.980
- Even his wife is subject to the losses
- 00:19:18.980 --> 00:19:24.252
- That he's had in his life that have affected his ability to
- 00:19:24.252 --> 00:19:31.125
- Care about other
- 00:19:31.125 --> 00:19:32.226
- People to the extent that he has a
- 00:19:32.226 --> 00:19:36.230
- A sense of compassion and empathy.
- 00:19:36.230 --> 00:19:39.800
- I love your relationship to it's a movie about faith,
- 00:19:39.800 --> 00:19:41.936
- As you mentioned, craig, but family is well,
- 00:19:41.936 --> 00:19:44.739
- Madison lawler, who plays your granddaughter,
- 00:19:44.739 --> 00:19:46.974
- What a great performance.
- 00:19:46.974 --> 00:19:48.109
- You guys had such a great chemistry on screen.
- 00:19:48.109 --> 00:19:50.678
- Talk more about that dynamic really at the heart of the film,
- 00:19:50.678 --> 00:19:53.648
- Your relationship
- 00:19:53.648 --> 00:19:55.082
- With your granddaughter
- 00:19:55.082 --> 00:19:56.117
- And all the great things that come out of that.
- 00:19:56.117 --> 00:19:58.552
- Yeah, i mean, she's wonderful in it and, you know,
- 00:19:58.552 --> 00:20:02.089
- She really brought everything she had to her portrayal.
- 00:20:02.089 --> 00:20:07.528
- And i think even our on set interactions were distant.
- 00:20:07.528 --> 00:20:13.134
- And i really think that that was a part of the theory.
- 00:20:13.134 --> 00:20:17.305
- You're bringing the text
- 00:20:17.305 --> 00:20:20.574
- To the character and the characters,
- 00:20:20.574 --> 00:20:22.610
- Bringing the text and herself to the set.
- 00:20:22.610 --> 00:20:26.013
- That's what you're dealing with.
- 00:20:26.013 --> 00:20:27.515
- And i thought she was lovely.
- 00:20:27.515 --> 00:20:28.983
- I thought it was exactly what the film needed.
- 00:20:28.983 --> 00:20:32.286
- She was.
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- Yeah.
- 00:20:33.220 --> 00:20:34.221
- You guys hit on obviously, faith and family.
- 00:20:34.221 --> 00:20:36.724
- It's also got football is a pretty serious backdrop.
- 00:20:36.724 --> 00:20:39.694
- The green bay packers 1993 season.
- 00:20:39.694 --> 00:20:42.830
- Your character buck, basically makes a wager here
- 00:20:42.830 --> 00:20:46.334
- About the packers winning the super bowl.
- 00:20:46.334 --> 00:20:48.569
- Break that down more for us, craig,
- 00:20:48.569 --> 00:20:50.237
- Because that's really the backdrop
- 00:20:50.237 --> 00:20:52.106
- At the center of the film and the plot.
- 00:20:52.106 --> 00:20:54.475
- It's it's a risk.
- 00:20:54.475 --> 00:20:55.910
- And so he's been driven
- 00:20:55.910 --> 00:20:58.946
- Buck has been driven to the
- 00:20:58.946 --> 00:21:00.147
- Edge of helping or finding a way to make this farm survive.
- 00:21:00.147 --> 00:21:05.119
- And the margins now or the financial margins
- 00:21:05.119 --> 00:21:09.390
- Are so small and he's losing it and he gets foreclosed on.
- 00:21:09.390 --> 00:21:13.794
- So the banker makes him this offer,
- 00:21:13.794 --> 00:21:17.231
- Which he says
- 00:21:17.231 --> 00:21:18.399
- The banker says is a joke, but burt takes him up on it.
- 00:21:18.399 --> 00:21:22.169
- Does it work out?
- 00:21:22.169 --> 00:21:23.037
- I don't know. yeah.
- 00:21:23.037 --> 00:21:24.038
- We can't tell you have to see, folks,
- 00:21:24.038 --> 00:21:25.740
- January 31st this friday in theaters nationwide.
- 00:21:25.740 --> 00:21:29.477
- Seem like you were having a lot of fun in that role.
- 00:21:29.477 --> 00:21:31.178
- Getting your hands dirty as buck,
- 00:21:31.178 --> 00:21:32.713
- And you fit right in there as a wisconsin farmer.
- 00:21:32.713 --> 00:21:36.050
- And also,
- 00:21:36.050 --> 00:21:37.184
- I know your faith plays a big role in your life as well.
- 00:21:37.184 --> 00:21:40.321
- Does your faith,
- 00:21:40.321 --> 00:21:41.288
- When you're choosing
- 00:21:41.288 --> 00:21:42.323
- Roles, does your faith ever play a role in that?
- 00:21:42.323 --> 00:21:45.559
- All the time, yeah.
- 00:21:45.559 --> 00:21:46.927
- I mean, it's i'm praying about what i'm doing
- 00:21:46.927 --> 00:21:51.599
- And brain while i'm doing it after i'm doing it and
- 00:21:51.599 --> 00:21:57.171
- Asking for guidance because, you know, left alone
- 00:21:57.171 --> 00:22:00.307
- With my own devices, i can be kind of a wreck.
- 00:22:00.307 --> 00:22:04.645
- Join the club.
- 00:22:04.645 --> 00:22:06.280
- Well said, craig, no doubt.
- 00:22:06.280 --> 00:22:08.048
- And you were a natural for this role.
- 00:22:08.048 --> 00:22:09.383
- Craig it's a great film, folks.
- 00:22:09.383 --> 00:22:10.651
- Again, it's called green and gold, featuring
- 00:22:10.651 --> 00:22:13.087
- The one and only craig
- 00:22:13.087 --> 00:22:14.388
- Nelson in theaters nationwide this friday, january 31st.
- 00:22:14.388 --> 00:22:18.392
- Craig. best of luck with the film.
- 00:22:18.392 --> 00:22:19.727
- Thanks so much for joining us.
- 00:22:19.727 --> 00:22:20.995
- God bless. we'll see you again soon.
- 00:22:20.995 --> 00:22:23.097
- And coming up after the break, my final thoughts on
- 00:22:23.097 --> 00:22:25.900
- Keeping america's traditions.
- 00:22:25.900 --> 00:22:28.969
- That's next.
- 00:22:28.969 --> 00:22:29.737
- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
- 00:22:36.000 --> 00:22:38.911
- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
- 00:22:39.778 --> 00:22:41.380
- When we talk about preserving america's tradition,
- 00:22:41.380 --> 00:22:44.216
- One of those clearly
- 00:22:44.216 --> 00:22:45.584
- Is preserving our national security.
- 00:22:45.584 --> 00:22:47.820
- But you can have the strongest military in the world
- 00:22:47.820 --> 00:22:50.889
- Without god. you won't get very far.
- 00:22:50.889 --> 00:22:53.091
- Think of some 91 verse one.
- 00:22:53.091 --> 00:22:55.227
- Whoever dwells in the shelter of the most high
- 00:22:55.227 --> 00:22:58.363
- Will rest in the shadow of the almighty.
- 00:22:58.363 --> 00:23:01.333
- Put god first, and then you will have
- 00:23:01.333 --> 00:23:03.969
- All the security you will ever need.
- 00:23:03.969 --> 00:23:06.205
- Speaking of which,
- 00:23:06.205 --> 00:23:07.306
- Top national security military expert eliot showed off
- 00:23:07.306 --> 00:23:10.375
- From israel with us here in dallas tomorrow.
- 00:23:10.375 --> 00:23:13.312
- And victoria koch, former trump administration official talking
- 00:23:13.312 --> 00:23:16.815
- All things happening around the world.
- 00:23:16.815 --> 00:23:18.951
- Why they matter to you.
- 00:23:18.951 --> 00:23:20.385
- Until then, god bless you.
- 00:23:20.385 --> 00:23:22.888
- We'll see you soon.
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