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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Operation Rising Lion | Stakelbeck Tonight | June 18, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck
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- Tonight i'm erick stakelbeck, and this is the state of play
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- Right now.
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- On day six of operation rising lion, israel's
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- War against the iranian terror machine.
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- The israel defense forces continue to pound military
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- And intelligence sites
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- Across iran, including in the capital, tehran.
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- In less than a week,
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- Israel has struck over 1100 iranian targets.
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- Military and intelligence.
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- Strong top generals and commanders, nuclear scientist,
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- Even iran's state broadcaster, which is, of course,
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- Nothing more than a propaganda arm of the regime.
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- And even though iran continues to launch missiles at israel,
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- The barrages are getting smaller and many of those missiles
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- Have been intercept it.
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- At the same time,
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- The israeli
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- Air force has destroyed vast amounts of iran's ballistic
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- Missile stockpiles and launchers on the ground.
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- Here's a great breakdown of what
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- Israel has accomplished so far, courtesy of the idf.
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- The israeli air force has redefined
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- What it means to achieve their dominance.
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- Since the launch of operation rising land on the night of june
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- 13th, around
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- 200 iaf aircraft through deep into iranian airspace,
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- Operating for over two hours in enemy territory
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- And one of the most complex and far
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- Reaching operations in history.
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- With precise coordination, the iaf dismantle
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- Iran's nuclear infrastructure,
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- Crippling its ability to build nuclear weapons.
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- It destroyed key missiles and students,
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- Neutralized aerial threats, and struck
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- Critical intelligence and command center.
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- Senior military and intelligence figures behind
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- Iran's terror networks were eliminated.
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- Even 2300km from israel.
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- The iaf hit its target with exact precision.
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- This was the longest range strike in iaf history.
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- This operation was a masterclass in modern warfare
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- And when he run tried to strike back.
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- Israel's multi-layered missile defense system was ready.
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- A defense wall stretching from ground to space
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- Were threats from drones to ballistic
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- Missiles are intercepted before hitting israel.
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- This is how a nation is protected,
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- Not just with weapons,
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- But with the will, strategy and relentless precision
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- Of our soldiers.
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- This is israel's air power.
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- As you can see,
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- Israel has conducted a stunning historic military operation
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- That will be talked about for years to come.
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- Add it all up.
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- And you'd think iran's regime would be begging
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- For a cease fire.
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- And yet,
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- Iran's 86 year old supreme leader ayatollah khamenei,
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- Remains every bit as fanatical and uncompromising
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- As he's always been.
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- He's hiding in a bunker someplace right now,
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- But he's still clinging to his fever dreams
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- Of an iranian led islamic empire and the destruction of america
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- And israel.
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- Here was khamenei earlier today.
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- Admitted on the courtyard
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- When he was, you know, said, boy, you invented a shrine
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- To send me down to you, because before that, in gaza
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- Said, that is the most.
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- When did you do that?
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- Does that mean that we had to walk the metro?
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- I was going
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- To get you running and i said, do
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- Set me up before i can do that.
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- He made on behalf of the babies.
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- I mean, that made them put money.
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- So they made you
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- Don't get that.
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- Folks, this is starting to become
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- Reminiscent of hitler's last days in his berlin bunker,
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- Which is fitting because khamenei, in his minions
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- Are a modern day nazi like death cult.
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- By the way, president trump is fed up with
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- The iranian regime's murder, mayhem and madness.
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- Remember, it wasn't too long ago
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- That khamenei ordered his thugs to assassinate trump.
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- Now, there's a very good chance
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- That the president could order the u.s.
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- To join israel's airstrikes against iran's nuclear sites,
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- In particular to help destroy the fordo nuclear site,
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- Which is heavily fortified and buried deep underground.
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- A very hard target, no doubt.
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- Sounds like it could be a job for some of those
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- Massive american bunker busting bombs.
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- Here was president trump earlier today at the white house.
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- Iran's got a
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- Lot of troubles, and they want to negotiate.
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- And they said,
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- Why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death
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- And destruction? why didn't you.
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- I said to the people,
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- Why didn't you negotiate with me two weeks ago?
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- You could have done fine.
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- You would have had a country.
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- It's very sad to watch this.
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- You know, i've never.
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- I've never seen anything like it.
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- So you never even thought it was going to be the reverse?
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- I didn't get it. they said.
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- And they're. son, you got it.
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- You got to do something. you got to negotiate.
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- It's too late, though.
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- Do you think it's too late to now make a deal?
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- Unconditional surrender.
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- That means i've had it.
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- Okay, i've had it, i give up.
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- No more.
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- Then we go blow up all the, you know, all the nuclear stuff.
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- It's all over the place.
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- No, they had bad intentions.
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- You know, the state.
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- For 40 years, they've been saying death
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- To america, death to israel, death
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- To anybody else that they didn't like.
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- They were bullies.
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- They were schoolyard bullies.
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- And now they're not bullies anymore.
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- But we'll see what happens. look. nothing's finished.
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- Finish your wars.
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- Very complex. a lot of bad things can happen.
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- A lot of turns are made. so i don't know.
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- I wouldn't say that we won anything yet.
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- I would say that we sure as hell made a lot of progress.
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- And we'll see.
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- And the next week is going to be
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- I big, maybe less than a week, maybe the last.
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- Rest easy because president trump gets it.
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- Now, yesterday we shared that powerful text message
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- That our good friend mike huckabee, the u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel, sent to president trump.
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- He essentially told the president
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- That god spared his life and put him back into office
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- For such a time as this.
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- There is a golden opportunity here to crush iran's
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- Nuclear program once and for all, and perhaps to even
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- Topple one of the world's most wicked regimes in the process.
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- History is calling.
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- We are watching the prophetic chess pieces
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- Moving on the board in real time, folks.
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- Please keep president trump and prime minister
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- Netanyahu in your prayers.
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- Pray for them to have wisdom, discernment, and clarity
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- In these pivotal times.
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- One man who has all three of those qualities is our friend,
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- California gubernatorial candidate steve hilton.
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- Coming up after the break,
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- He'll share how years of failed leadership made the middle east
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- And his adopted home state of california such
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- Chaotic places, and how he aims to fix it.
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- That's next. stick around.
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- That's next. stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- He is a bold voice for america
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- First, a fierce critic of globalism
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- And now a candidate for governor of california.
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- But before stepping into u.s.
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- Politics, steve hilton
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- Advised prime ministers and took on deep state elites.
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- He's author of a great new book called calla failure
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- Reversing the ruin of america's worst run state.
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- And as war erupts in the middle east.
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- We're joined now by steve to unpack
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- What this conflict means, not only for israel and iran,
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- But for america. steve, you're in the car right now.
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- You're campaigning across the golden state.
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- We're going to talk about that in a minute.
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- But first, look, the big story.
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- Now there's a campaign unfolding in the middle east
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- Right now, israel striking iran's nuclear facilities,
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- Its ballistic missile arsenal.
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- Steve, what's your take? so far?
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- We've seen major losses suffered by the iranian regime.
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- And perhaps president trump orders the united states
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- To get involved, maybe bomb that fordo military site.
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- A lot happening right now in the world's
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- Most volatile region. how do you see it?
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- Well, it's unfolding
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- Right in front of our eyes, changing every hour.
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- So who knows where events will take us.
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- But i think there's a few things we know for sure.
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- Number one, we know for sure that israel was attacked
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- And this war was not started by israel.
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- This war was started by iran, by its proxies, hamas,
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- Who carried out the most vicious and appalling massacre of jews
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- Since the holocaust.
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- And that's what has started this latest round of conflict.
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- And israel is a democracy that wants to live in peace
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- With its neighbors. that's that's a fact.
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- And it's the neighbors who are
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- On the other side of that moral position.
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- Another fact president trump wants two things.
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- He's made that very, very clear.
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- He wants peace, not just here in the
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- In the sense of this conflict in the middle east,
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- But generally that's been his position for as long as he's
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- Been involved in politics.
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- He wants to end the forever wars.
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- He led that process in relation to afghanistan.
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- And his view is that he should use the power
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- Of the united states to push for peace around the world.
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- That is very clearly his goal.
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- Everything he says and does supports that.
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- Secondly, in relation to president trump, he's
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- Made it also very clear that peace requires
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- That iran does not have a nuclear weapon.
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- You cannot have a nuclear weapon in the hands
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- Of a murderous, theocratic, authoritarian
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- Regime that is prepared to kill without limit.
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- And those things i think, point in one direction,
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- Which is that at this moment, with all of this
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- Tension in the world,
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- I can't think of anyone actually,
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- Who i would rather have in the oval office
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- Making decisions than president trump.
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- Because above all, we've seen with president trump.
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- He's a pragmatist.
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- He's pragmatic. he's not an ideologue.
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- He wants to solve problems in a clear and businesslike fashion.
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- He's a he's used to negotiating.
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- You see that happening right in front of our eyes.
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- I believe everything he is doing right now is designed,
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- In his view, to try and get this thing resolved
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- Without military conflict.
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- We'll see what happens.
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- But those are the things that seem very clear to me.
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- Steve, great break down all around.
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- And i think the importance of leadership is very clear here.
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- Number one, peace through strength.
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- Number two, president trump.
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- Benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister.
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- Two, i guess you could say churchillian type
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- Modern figures.
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- But i think, steve, it shows us the importance
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- Of strong, resolute leadership, which we've been lacking
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- In california.
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- The latest example, the la riots and the madness
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- Unfolding over the past few weeks.
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- Gavin newsom
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- Is running the beautiful golden state into the ground.
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- And that's why you're running
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- As a republican candidate for governor of california.
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- Tell us a bit more about that.
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- The complete collapse of any sort of leadership
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- Between newsom and karen bass, the l.a.
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- Mayor, and how you are looking to rectify that? yes.
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- I mean, it's a very similar point, actually,
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- In relation to the lawlessness and chaos we see in california,
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- Which is that if there are no consequences
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- For bad behavior, you're going to get more bad behavior.
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- And that is true around the world with bad regimes.
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- And it is true
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- Here at home with criminals who attempted to break the law.
- 00:11:53.003 --> 00:11:55.972
- And that's what we've seen for decades now
- 00:11:55.972 --> 00:11:58.408
- In california, just on this particular issue
- 00:11:58.408 --> 00:12:00.710
- Of crime and chaos and lawlessness.
- 00:12:00.710 --> 00:12:02.379
- And that is one of many.
- 00:12:02.379 --> 00:12:04.281
- There's a reason that the subtitle of my book
- 00:12:04.281 --> 00:12:06.683
- Was reversing the ruin of america's worst run state.
- 00:12:06.683 --> 00:12:10.520
- That's the subtitle of cal of failure.
- 00:12:10.520 --> 00:12:12.889
- And that is because
- 00:12:12.889 --> 00:12:14.257
- It is the worst run state, because california is failing
- 00:12:14.257 --> 00:12:18.562
- On every single measure that matters.
- 00:12:18.562 --> 00:12:21.531
- And right now,
- 00:12:21.531 --> 00:12:22.966
- With the riots in l.a., of course, our focus is on crime
- 00:12:22.966 --> 00:12:26.336
- And chaos and law and order, and it all goes together
- 00:12:26.336 --> 00:12:29.172
- With a mindset that for years now has been pro criminal.
- 00:12:29.172 --> 00:12:32.309
- And in fact, right today, as we're speaking right now,
- 00:12:32.309 --> 00:12:35.412
- I'm announcing a new policy on crime,
- 00:12:35.412 --> 00:12:37.881
- Which is what i will do as governor,
- 00:12:37.881 --> 00:12:39.983
- To reverse the absolutely insane
- 00:12:39.983 --> 00:12:43.620
- Pro criminal policies we've seen from gavin newsom.
- 00:12:43.620 --> 00:12:46.289
- Here's what's been going on in california over the last decade.
- 00:12:46.289 --> 00:12:49.793
- Plus, he has systematically been shutting down state prisons.
- 00:12:49.793 --> 00:12:55.131
- What does that mean?
- 00:12:55.131 --> 00:12:56.333
- Dangerous, violent criminals have either been released
- 00:12:56.333 --> 00:12:59.870
- Early from prison and let out onto the streets,
- 00:12:59.870 --> 00:13:03.874
- Or they've been transferred to county jails,
- 00:13:03.874 --> 00:13:07.077
- Which are now totally overcrowded
- 00:13:07.077 --> 00:13:09.045
- And overwhelmed, and they in turn
- 00:13:09.045 --> 00:13:12.115
- Release lower level criminals onto the streets
- 00:13:12.115 --> 00:13:15.018
- Because there's no room to keep them in jail.
- 00:13:15.018 --> 00:13:16.920
- So yesterday, for example, when i launched my policy,
- 00:13:16.920 --> 00:13:20.657
- Which is the exact opposite,
- 00:13:20.657 --> 00:13:22.692
- More prison capacity, so we have less crime.
- 00:13:22.692 --> 00:13:26.263
- I was with the d.a., in fact,
- 00:13:26.263 --> 00:13:27.964
- The the architect of a proposition
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- That just passed with overwhelming support
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- In california
- 00:13:32.302 --> 00:13:33.536
- To try and reverse this anti this this pro crime ideology.
- 00:13:33.536 --> 00:13:37.674
- He was telling me that often in the in terms of criminals
- 00:13:37.674 --> 00:13:40.911
- At the local level, you could be sentenced to 120 days in jail
- 00:13:40.911 --> 00:13:44.614
- And you serve exactly zero catch and release.
- 00:13:44.614 --> 00:13:48.451
- You go in the front door, out the back door. why?
- 00:13:48.451 --> 00:13:51.321
- Because the jails are full.
- 00:13:51.321 --> 00:13:53.490
- And that's why a starting point for what i will do as governor
- 00:13:53.490 --> 00:13:56.860
- To restore law and order, uphold decent standards of civilized
- 00:13:56.860 --> 00:14:00.931
- Behavior, is to reverse this insane closure of state prisons,
- 00:14:00.931 --> 00:14:04.701
- More prisons, less crime.
- 00:14:04.701 --> 00:14:06.469
- That's what i'm announcing today. yesterday.
- 00:14:06.469 --> 00:14:08.271
- If you want to make california great again,
- 00:14:08.271 --> 00:14:09.673
- But you also want to make california sane again,
- 00:14:09.673 --> 00:14:12.609
- We're going to talk about that more with steve hilton.
- 00:14:12.609 --> 00:14:14.511
- He's running for governor of the golden state.
- 00:14:14.511 --> 00:14:16.179
- He's author of the great new book folks cal a failure.
- 00:14:16.179 --> 00:14:18.648
- You can pick it up at amazon.com wherever books are sold.
- 00:14:18.648 --> 00:14:21.418
- Also, be sure to follow steve on x and across social media.
- 00:14:21.418 --> 00:14:25.055
- More with steve hilton after the break.
- 00:14:25.055 --> 00:14:27.257
- How did we get here in california?
- 00:14:27.257 --> 00:14:29.459
- It's a paradise.
- 00:14:29.459 --> 00:14:30.961
- How did it all collapse and how?
- 00:14:30.961 --> 00:14:32.429
- Steve planning to turn around more
- 00:14:32.429 --> 00:14:34.564
- With steve hilton after the break. don't move.
- 00:14:34.564 --> 00:14:41.000
- With steve hilton after the break. don't move.
- 00:14:41.000 --> 00:14:43.539
- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
- 00:14:44.306 --> 00:14:46.208
- Wildfires, lawlessness, deep corruption at the highest
- 00:14:46.208 --> 00:14:50.579
- Levels of government.
- 00:14:50.579 --> 00:14:51.780
- California is in crisis,
- 00:14:51.780 --> 00:14:53.649
- And some say it's on the brink of collapse.
- 00:14:53.649 --> 00:14:56.452
- But can california be great again?
- 00:14:56.452 --> 00:14:59.021
- We're joined by california gubernatorial candidate,
- 00:14:59.021 --> 00:15:01.323
- Author of the great new book cal of failure
- 00:15:01.323 --> 00:15:03.659
- Reversing the ruin of america's worst run state, steve hilton.
- 00:15:03.659 --> 00:15:06.729
- This year, he's on a mission to reclaim california's future
- 00:15:06.729 --> 00:15:10.632
- And restore sanity to the state and make it golden once again.
- 00:15:10.632 --> 00:15:14.837
- Steve, talk about the golden state.
- 00:15:14.837 --> 00:15:16.405
- Look, i'm growing up.
- 00:15:16.405 --> 00:15:17.306
- I'm a child of the 80s and 90s.
- 00:15:17.306 --> 00:15:19.575
- I was on the cold and sometimes dreary east coast
- 00:15:19.575 --> 00:15:22.778
- And i looked west.
- 00:15:22.778 --> 00:15:24.013
- And california, to me, was a paradise.
- 00:15:24.013 --> 00:15:27.016
- Amazing.
- 00:15:27.016 --> 00:15:28.317
- Where did it all go wrong?
- 00:15:28.317 --> 00:15:30.119
- When did it start?
- 00:15:30.119 --> 00:15:31.520
- The. the slide for california.
- 00:15:31.520 --> 00:15:34.156
- So you're totally right.
- 00:15:34.690 --> 00:15:35.858
- And the way i sometimes put it
- 00:15:35.858 --> 00:15:37.726
- Is that
- 00:15:37.726 --> 00:15:38.560
- In many ways, the american dream,
- 00:15:38.560 --> 00:15:40.062
- When we think of the american dream,
- 00:15:40.062 --> 00:15:41.864
- We think of the california dream.
- 00:15:41.864 --> 00:15:43.966
- The chance to live the life you want to live.
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- A great job where you make enough
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- To raise your family
- 00:15:48.370 --> 00:15:49.405
- And the home of your own, in a safe neighborhood
- 00:15:49.405 --> 00:15:51.807
- With a good school for your kids.
- 00:15:51.807 --> 00:15:53.442
- Have a better life.
- 00:15:53.442 --> 00:15:54.510
- That was california. exactly as you say.
- 00:15:54.510 --> 00:15:56.912
- And step by step, it's been ruined.
- 00:15:56.912 --> 00:15:59.181
- And the reason for that is entirely political.
- 00:15:59.181 --> 00:16:02.351
- There's been no natural disaster that caused this.
- 00:16:02.351 --> 00:16:05.287
- It's entirely manmade, or, as i say, often democrat made.
- 00:16:05.287 --> 00:16:09.425
- And that's the key to this.
- 00:16:09.425 --> 00:16:10.793
- For too long now,
- 00:16:10.793 --> 00:16:12.194
- We've had one party rule by the democrats in california.
- 00:16:12.194 --> 00:16:16.031
- So it's at least 30 years now, nearly since any republic,
- 00:16:16.031 --> 00:16:20.302
- Since you had a republican majority
- 00:16:20.302 --> 00:16:22.271
- In either of the chambers of the state legislature.
- 00:16:22.271 --> 00:16:24.973
- Total one party rule for the last 15 years.
- 00:16:24.973 --> 00:16:28.510
- What do you get with one party rule?
- 00:16:28.510 --> 00:16:30.446
- You get arrogant, complacent elitism.
- 00:16:30.446 --> 00:16:33.682
- You get the people in charge not paying attention to
- 00:16:33.682 --> 00:16:36.685
- To the regular families and businesses of california,
- 00:16:36.685 --> 00:16:39.888
- But to their own interest groups.
- 00:16:39.888 --> 00:16:41.657
- The people that pay them,
- 00:16:41.657 --> 00:16:43.158
- The people that give them their instructions.
- 00:16:43.158 --> 00:16:44.827
- I call it the democrat industrial complex.
- 00:16:44.827 --> 00:16:47.329
- All of that is the reason that we now have in california
- 00:16:47.329 --> 00:16:50.065
- The worst outcomes on pretty much everything that matters.
- 00:16:50.065 --> 00:16:53.602
- I'll just quickly go through the list.
- 00:16:53.602 --> 00:16:55.304
- It's an amazing list.
- 00:16:55.304 --> 00:16:56.638
- We have the highest taxes in the country,
- 00:16:56.638 --> 00:16:59.241
- But also the highest rate of poverty
- 00:16:59.241 --> 00:17:01.643
- For most of last year, the highest rate of unemployment
- 00:17:01.643 --> 00:17:05.047
- In america.
- 00:17:05.047 --> 00:17:06.181
- We have the highest cost for everything that matters.
- 00:17:06.181 --> 00:17:08.650
- Gas, electricity, water, housing costs the highest in america.
- 00:17:08.650 --> 00:17:13.989
- The lowest home ownership.
- 00:17:13.989 --> 00:17:15.424
- We have the worst business climate in america for ten years
- 00:17:15.424 --> 00:17:19.161
- In a row. on and on. on everything.
- 00:17:19.161 --> 00:17:21.463
- Well, on fourth grade school results.
- 00:17:21.463 --> 00:17:23.532
- The worst in america.
- 00:17:23.532 --> 00:17:24.867
- It is an unbelievable catalog of total failure.
- 00:17:24.867 --> 00:17:28.670
- That's what you get
- 00:17:28.670 --> 00:17:29.905
- When people just stop paying attention to the needs of the
- 00:17:29.905 --> 00:17:33.175
- Of the community and only look to their own ideology.
- 00:17:33.175 --> 00:17:37.179
- And that's the combination
- 00:17:37.179 --> 00:17:38.447
- I think you saw with the fires in los angeles in january.
- 00:17:38.447 --> 00:17:42.584
- So the riots just now,
- 00:17:42.584 --> 00:17:44.019
- This combination of extremism, ideological extremism
- 00:17:44.019 --> 00:17:47.456
- And governing incompetence, i actually call it d.i.
- 00:17:47.456 --> 00:17:51.260
- As the recent version of d.i.
- 00:17:51.260 --> 00:17:53.395
- That has caused the problem in california democrat extremism
- 00:17:53.395 --> 00:17:57.199
- And incompetence.
- 00:17:57.199 --> 00:17:58.333
- And the answer, the way we turn it around is to elect
- 00:17:58.333 --> 00:18:01.470
- A governor on a platform of common sense reform.
- 00:18:01.470 --> 00:18:04.573
- That's what i'm talking about. just very simple things.
- 00:18:04.573 --> 00:18:06.975
- Reduce the ridiculous red tape and regulation that makes it
- 00:18:06.975 --> 00:18:10.345
- Impossible to run anything, to do anything in california.
- 00:18:10.345 --> 00:18:14.216
- Lower taxes
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- So that people can actually keep more of what they earn.
- 00:18:15.450 --> 00:18:18.520
- Gas prices.
- 00:18:18.520 --> 00:18:19.588
- We have the highest in the country.
- 00:18:19.588 --> 00:18:20.789
- That's particularly affecting working class californians.
- 00:18:20.789 --> 00:18:23.926
- If we don't change direction,
- 00:18:23.926 --> 00:18:25.594
- There's an estimate that we'll have $8.40 cars next year.
- 00:18:25.594 --> 00:18:29.398
- I've got a plan to get rid of the climate regulations
- 00:18:29.398 --> 00:18:32.367
- So that we can get to $3 cars in california,
- 00:18:32.367 --> 00:18:35.571
- Which in the rest of the country would just seem normal.
- 00:18:35.571 --> 00:18:38.006
- Here it seems like nirvana because
- 00:18:38.006 --> 00:18:40.542
- That's what i'm saying, is
- 00:18:41.109 --> 00:18:42.978
- We can make california golden again.
- 00:18:42.978 --> 00:18:44.980
- This idea
- 00:18:44.980 --> 00:18:45.847
- That we just have to put up with it,
- 00:18:45.847 --> 00:18:47.516
- And then your only choice
- 00:18:47.516 --> 00:18:49.084
- Is to suffer or to leave is ridiculous.
- 00:18:49.084 --> 00:18:52.020
- It doesn't have to be like this.
- 00:18:52.020 --> 00:18:54.156
- That's why i'm running for governor.
- 00:18:54.156 --> 00:18:55.624
- To turn things around and make california truly golden again.
- 00:18:55.624 --> 00:18:58.627
- Steve. well said.
- 00:18:58.627 --> 00:18:59.728
- All around in california is more than worth saving,
- 00:18:59.728 --> 00:19:03.065
- As you said.
- 00:19:03.065 --> 00:19:03.966
- Hey, for anyone in the other 49 states
- 00:19:03.966 --> 00:19:06.802
- Who's watching right now, who says, well, tough
- 00:19:06.802 --> 00:19:08.604
- Break for california, but how does that affect me?
- 00:19:08.604 --> 00:19:10.839
- It seems to me, steve,
- 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:12.341
- That california has been sort of a test lab
- 00:19:12.341 --> 00:19:15.310
- For the radical left
- 00:19:15.310 --> 00:19:16.745
- And what they want to accomplish nationwide.
- 00:19:16.745 --> 00:19:19.348
- Can you talk more about that?
- 00:19:19.348 --> 00:19:21.283
- 100? it's a really important point,
- 00:19:21.283 --> 00:19:23.485
- And that's why i agree with you that we've got to
- 00:19:23.485 --> 00:19:25.420
- We can't just let california's continue to slide into extremism
- 00:19:25.420 --> 00:19:30.425
- And chaos and stagnation and decline like this.
- 00:19:30.425 --> 00:19:33.762
- I mean, the way i sometimes describe it
- 00:19:33.762 --> 00:19:35.497
- And you talk about you use the word experiment.
- 00:19:35.497 --> 00:19:38.133
- That's exactly how i see it,
- 00:19:38.133 --> 00:19:39.668
- Because they've been unchallenged.
- 00:19:39.668 --> 00:19:41.603
- There's one party rule for so long
- 00:19:41.603 --> 00:19:43.572
- They've used california as a kind of.
- 00:19:43.572 --> 00:19:46.041
- I sometimes describe it as the wuhan lab of far left extremism.
- 00:19:46.041 --> 00:19:50.178
- They've been cooking up these ideological viruses
- 00:19:50.178 --> 00:19:53.181
- That stay in california.
- 00:19:53.181 --> 00:19:54.816
- So many of the bad things
- 00:19:54.816 --> 00:19:56.952
- That are causing problems across the country
- 00:19:56.952 --> 00:19:59.154
- The climate extremism, the green new deal, the,
- 00:19:59.154 --> 00:20:02.524
- You know, banning gas, cars and gas stoves and
- 00:20:02.524 --> 00:20:05.260
- And making everything more expensive, endlessly obsessing
- 00:20:05.260 --> 00:20:08.196
- About wind and solar, unreliable sources of energy,
- 00:20:08.196 --> 00:20:11.400
- The gender extremism that we're seeing.
- 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:14.169
- All of these things started in california of $20 minimum wage.
- 00:20:14.169 --> 00:20:18.740
- You know, one thing after another.
- 00:20:18.740 --> 00:20:20.709
- It starts here in california, and it doesn't stop here.
- 00:20:20.709 --> 00:20:23.912
- So my argument, not just to californians,
- 00:20:23.912 --> 00:20:26.281
- But everyone watching across the country, is
- 00:20:26.281 --> 00:20:28.183
- Let's beat it here.
- 00:20:28.183 --> 00:20:29.685
- Let's turn things around here.
- 00:20:29.685 --> 00:20:31.386
- Let's save california for sanity.
- 00:20:31.386 --> 00:20:34.222
- And that will help not just all of us here
- 00:20:34.222 --> 00:20:36.258
- In california, but the whole country.
- 00:20:36.258 --> 00:20:37.993
- Yeah. amen. steve, about a minute left.
- 00:20:37.993 --> 00:20:40.128
- Look, you're a uk native.
- 00:20:40.128 --> 00:20:41.363
- You worked for former uk prime minister david cameron.
- 00:20:41.363 --> 00:20:43.765
- You are now a californian.
- 00:20:43.765 --> 00:20:45.400
- An american citizen.
- 00:20:45.400 --> 00:20:46.835
- What drew you to california?
- 00:20:46.835 --> 00:20:49.137
- No, i've.
- 00:20:49.137 --> 00:20:50.238
- I've loved california for as long as i can remember.
- 00:20:50.238 --> 00:20:52.708
- That ideal of california.
- 00:20:52.708 --> 00:20:54.710
- To me, california represents the best of america.
- 00:20:54.710 --> 00:20:58.480
- Everything that i admire and love about our country.
- 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:01.283
- California should be the ultimate expression
- 00:21:01.283 --> 00:21:03.552
- Of that energy and optimism and ambition and innovation and
- 00:21:03.552 --> 00:21:08.290
- Start up hustle and creativity, the imagination, all of that.
- 00:21:08.290 --> 00:21:12.994
- The california dream is the american dream.
- 00:21:12.994 --> 00:21:15.630
- That's why it matters so much that we restore it.
- 00:21:15.630 --> 00:21:18.467
- And i was i was in love with california
- 00:21:18.467 --> 00:21:20.569
- Even before we moved here.
- 00:21:20.569 --> 00:21:22.070
- And i'm so honored to be given the opportunity
- 00:21:22.070 --> 00:21:24.373
- To save this beautiful state for ourselves here.
- 00:21:24.373 --> 00:21:27.109
- But also for our whole country. steve. great stuff.
- 00:21:27.109 --> 00:21:29.978
- Good luck, my friend.
- 00:21:29.978 --> 00:21:30.979
- Folks, the book is called cal of failure.
- 00:21:30.979 --> 00:21:33.215
- It is a cautionary tale,
- 00:21:33.215 --> 00:21:34.883
- A great read, but steve is looking to turn things around.
- 00:21:34.883 --> 00:21:37.352
- He's in the car right now.
- 00:21:37.352 --> 00:21:38.153
- Steve, get back on the campaign trail.
- 00:21:38.153 --> 00:21:40.055
- Be safe, my friend. we'll see you again soon.
- 00:21:40.055 --> 00:21:41.757
- God bless steve hilton.
- 00:21:41.757 --> 00:21:43.125
- And coming up after the break, my final thoughts were talk
- 00:21:43.125 --> 00:21:46.428
- About making california america great again.
- 00:21:46.428 --> 00:21:49.264
- Is the middle east about to become great again as well?
- 00:21:49.264 --> 00:21:53.268
- My take on that next. stick around.
- 00:21:53.268 --> 00:21:57.001
- My take on that next. stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonig
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- Folks, as we wrap up here, a quick programing note.
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- Mark your calendars tomorrow night, june 19th, live
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- Right here on tbn, starting 7:30 p.m.
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- Eastern time
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- Speaking of which, be encouraged.
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- Look, we've got wars, rumors of war.
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- But i think of the book of
- 00:22:36.278 --> 00:22:37.145
- Isaiah, chapter 19, verses 23 to 25.
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- In that day
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- There will be a highway from egypt to assyria,
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- And the assyrian will come into egypt
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- And the egyptian into assyria, and the egyptians
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- Will serve with the assyrians.
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- In that day, israel will be one of three,
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- With egypt and assyria a blessing
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- In the midst of the land, whom the lord of hosts shall bless,
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- Saying, blessed is egypt,
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- My people, into syria, the work of my hands,
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- And israel my inheritance.
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- Folks,
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- We are looking at
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- A new middle east shaping up with the end of the
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- Iranian regime. so be encouraged.
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- God is moving.
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- Hey, tomorrow night remember 90 minutes live.
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- Don't miss that. until then.
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- God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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