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: Rededicating America to Christ | Stakelbeck Tonight | May 18, 2026
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck.
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- And we just witnessed an event
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- Of biblical proportions in our nation's capital.
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- On sunday, the trump administration
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- Held rededicate 250 on the national mall.
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- It was an event to formally and publicly rededicate
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- The united states to god almighty before the eyes
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- Of the world.
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- Folks, it was a king josiah moment.
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- Second chronicles recounts
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- How josiah turned ancient judah back to god.
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- It wasn't just a grassroots movement
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- Among the people of judah.
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- Revival and rededication were actively encouraged
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- By the ruler of the land.
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- That's what we're seeing right now in america,
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- And we haven't seen anything like it in a long, long time.
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- It's historic and it's biblical.
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- That's why our tbn team was in dc covering rededicate
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- 250 live all day yesterday.
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- Now, if you missed it,
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- You can catch the entire event on tbn plus right now.
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- Top administration officials like pete hegseth and marco
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- Rubio, pastors like jack graham, robert jeffress and jensen
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- Franklin, and worship artists
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- Like chris tomlin all came together,
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- Along with tens of thousands of everyday americans,
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- To honor god and rededicate our nation to him.
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- As part of america's 250th birthday,
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- You were speaker of the house mike johnson.
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- Lord, today we pray that you grant us
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- That same devotion to these united states.
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- Give us courage, lord.
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- Make us worthy of all those who devoted
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- And sacrificed their lives,
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- So that a government of the people, by the people
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- And for the people shall not perish from the earth.
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- Almighty god, we ask that you hear these solemn petitions
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- Just as we in the beginning
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- Dedicated this land to your most holy name.
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- Today. hear, lord.
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- In this 250th year of american indian independence,
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- We hereby rededicate the united states of america
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- As one nation under god.
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- Folks, that's one of the most pivotal
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- And influential political leaders in washington.
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- Crying out to god on behalf of our nation.
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- Speaker johnson realizes, just as our founding fathers
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- Did, that blessed is the nation whose god is the lord.
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- As i covered sunday's event,
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- I thought of what god told the prophet samuel.
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- Those who honor me, i will honor.
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- With so many challenges at home and abroad, our leaders
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- Need god's wisdom and favor now more than ever.
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- Chief among those challenges is iran's regime.
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- Peace talks with the mad mullahs are at a dead end,
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- And the u.s.
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- And israel may resume military action very soon.
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- Coming up, one of america's most preeminent historians,
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- Victor davis hanson, joins us to break down
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- What's next in the middle east with china.
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- And here at home, where we're facing
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- A left wing movement that stands in direct opposition
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- To faith, family and freedom.
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- And it all starts now.
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- A collapsing iranian regime,
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- A weakened europe and communist china.
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- Feeling the heat.
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- The middle east conflict
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- Is rewriting the global order before our eyes.
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- So how can america capitalize?
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- Here to break it all down,
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- As victor davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution
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- And host of the victor
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- Davis hanson in his own words podcast, a must listen.
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- Victor, always great to see you.
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- Hey, president trump, thank you for having me.
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- Of course, a short while ago, the president
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- Essentially rejected the latest ridiculous iranian
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- Counter offer, a so-called peace proposal from the mullahs.
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- Do you get the sense, victor,
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- That the time for talk is just about over with
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- Iran's regime, and due to their ideology,
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- They're never going to agree to any sort of a reasonable deal
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- With the united states.
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- No. and i think
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- The time is much shorter than they think
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- From all the signals out of washington.
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- I think donald trump is
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- Frustrated, and he feels that maybe
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- For the last 30 or 40 days he's been had
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- Because of these on and he sees what their strategy is.
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- People, i think, underestimate his concern for life.
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- I don't
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- I think he really, genuinely did not want to kill people.
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- And so he
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- He took out these, targets for the first 40 days and now
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- 35 days or so, we've been negotiating and
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- And the iranians are basically saying
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- We're getting closer to the us midterms.
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- The price of gas is high.
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- We've caused economic dislocation.
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- That's their strategy.
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- Yeah. and he'll crack. i don't think you will.
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- I think he feels that sometime this week or next he's
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- Going to take out dual use targets.
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- He's going to try to get rid of their pt boats.
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- He's going to try to find the caches of missiles
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- That have been threatened to launch against the gulf states.
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- And he's and we'll see what happens.
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- But i think he can pull it off.
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- And then pivot.
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- And i think he's right about that.
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- There's about 250
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- Ships out there with a million barrels of oil each.
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- I think the world uses about 60 billion,
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- I mean, 60 million barrels a day.
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- So you can see that
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- There's 4 or 5 days of oil just sitting on the on the ocean.
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- And if they're able to open the strait
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- And defang this, this regime
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- And russia for good or evil, is pumping
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- Oil, venezuela is up by about a half a million barrels.
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- We we are increasing.
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- The uae left opec. yeah.
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- And it says it's going to pump an additional million barrels.
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- You could see
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- A lot of speculators get caught and want to unload oil.
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- They were speculating it would go up to $150.
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- Yeah. and get rid of it. so.
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- But he's got to he's got to make a decision
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- I feel in the next week or two at the latest.
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- Yeah. yeah it feels imminent for sure.
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- You mentioned russia a minute ago, victor.
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- I think of china.
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- President trump just completed
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- What seemed to be a pretty successful state visit to china.
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- How has the communist regime in beijing
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- Been affected by the iran war?
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- This has hurt them, it seems.
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- It has.
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- They weren't.
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- I don't think our left.
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- We listened too much to the left and the global globalist,
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- The europeans. but we were in a very good situation.
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- We're the largest producer of gas and oil in history.
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- And to china has to import 10 million
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- Barrels a day, every single day.
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- And their economy is not doing well.
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- They were supposed to surpass or gb gdp.
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- We were told that we've got 31 trillion in gdp.
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- They've got about 20.
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- It's rough math would say it takes four chinese citizens
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- To produce the same goods and services as 60% of the goods
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- And services
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- Of one american, 340 million people, versus 1.4 billion.
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- But in all the the indices
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- Of history of a society throughout history,
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- Modern or ancient, it's always been.
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- Is the government stable?
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- Does it have fuel? does it have food?
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- Does it have a security, a successful military?
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- Is it a cohesive society and
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- Is it a flexible, reactive society?
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- And ours is.
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- We were the biggest food producer exporter,
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- In the world today were the
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- Biggest producer of gas and oil 50 universe.
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- I just looked at a
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- Ranking of 50 of the top universities and stem graduate
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- Programs, science, technology, engineering, math
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- And 70% of them maybe 80
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- Or us universities.
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- As bad as they are now, at least in the sciences
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- Where innovation is done, it's really encouraging.
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- And then our fertility rate is not great, but it's 1.7,
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- China's 1.0, europe's 1.3.
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- So these are aging,
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- Shrinking populations.
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- And ours is not to the same degree at least.
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- So our constitution is the oldest,
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- Democratic, consensual society in the world.
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- We don't have a monarchy.
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- We don't have an autocrat.
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- So we've got all these advantages.
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- And i think that came through at the summit that trump
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- Was not eager to give any concessions to china.
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- Yeah. yeah, it doesn't have to.
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- He's in the driver's seat, i think. exactly. victor.
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- We have all the leverage.
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- And trump, thankfully, is not afraid to use it.
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- Hey, about 30s left,
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- And we'll bring you right back after the break.
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- Yeah. europe.
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- Nato on the ropes. severely.
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- It seems this iran was exposed a lot,
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- But i think one of the main things it's exposed has been
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- Just the weakness of europe and a refusal
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- To defend their civilization, to defend western civilization.
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- Yeah.
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- I think their their dependency on the un oil
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- And the way they treated us, they could have just
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- Been publicly,
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- You know, non-committal and, and privately called trump.
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- So you get whatever you need
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- To get rid of this common enemy you've got.
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- But publicly, because of our populations and our democracies,
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- We can't come out.
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- That would have been suitable to trump,
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- But instead they grandstand it.
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- Yeah. italy.
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- France. uk. spain.
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- And the next time somebody from england says
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- We want to go to the falcons and we need all your help.
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- Yeah. or somebody from france said we got to go to chad.
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- We need all your help.
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- Or some nato member said this is a call.
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- Listen, coalition of the willing,
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- Help us bomb libya or help us bomb serbia.
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- I don't think the united states is going to do it. yeah.
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- They're going to say no, no, no, no, no.
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- You've got to make
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- Your commitments 5% gdp in defense, the new ones.
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- And we're not going to
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- Do anything anymore other than our nato obligations.
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- Yeah. they really hurt themselves.
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- And that paradigm of open borders,
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- Green new deal
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- War on fossil fuels.
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- Limitations of freedom of expression, low fertility.
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- It's really killing them. and it really is.
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- It is in america
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- Under trump is really the last line
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- Of defense for western civilization.
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- Is now is.
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- The one and only victor davis hanson more with
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- After the break folks.
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- Be sure to check them out on x across social media.
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- The in his own words podcast of course as well.
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- We're going to talk
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- All things domestic
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- After the break. what about the midterms
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- And the new face of the democrat party?
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- More with victor davis hanson after the break.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight we're talking to the one
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- And only victor davis hanson, hoover institution senior fellow
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- And host of the victor davis hanson in his own words podcast.
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- Victor, the democrat party was very big on redistricting,
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- And now it seems to be coming back
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- To bite them in advance of the november midterms.
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- How do you see this playing out?
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- It looks like, again, redistricting
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- Is now benefiting republicans in particular in the south.
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- It is.
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- I think they kind of misjudged what was going on.
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- They don't have the majority of legislatures in the state.
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- Governance of the 50 states.
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- New england was almost zero representation,
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- Even though those liberal states had 40 or 45% trump votes
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- In some of them.
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- So texas responded to new england
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- And then california,
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- And then they got very excited because of virginia
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- And california.
- 00:11:53.936 --> 00:11:55.371
- But what they didn't look
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- At was the supreme court decision, number one,
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- That there are more republican legislatures than democratic.
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- They're going to lose some.
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- They're going to lose a lot of seats
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- From the supreme court ruling on racial gerrymandering.
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- And this is all aside from the 2030 census.
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- In the long term, they're going to lose another ten.
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- But it seems that they're going to lose 10 or 12 seats
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- That no one had counted on.
- 00:12:17.960 --> 00:12:19.562
- And i think it hinges on if donald trump can end.
- 00:12:19.562 --> 00:12:23.465
- He can say to the american people, i took an enormous risk.
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- But i ended the iranian threat for a generation.
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- And he sets the conditions in which there's
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- Going to be increased. iranian
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- Resistance does have to overthrow the government.
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- Yet and then pivot
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- And by, say, july or august, the price of gas cuts down.
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- He's going to be in a very strong
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- He and the party are going to be in a very strong position.
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- Yeah. no doubt.
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- And you've made the point, victor,
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- That today's democrat
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- Party is not the democrat party of, say, jfk, fdr,
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- Truman, this is zoran mamdani, ilhan omar and aoc.
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- You've compared them to the french revolutionaries,
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- I think, quite accurately kind of new jacobins.
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- Talk a bit more about that.
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- The state of play today in the democrat party.
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- It's kind of eerie.
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- The jacobins, you know, they hijacked the french revolution
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- And they were they were year zero.
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- So they they redid the calendar almost like, the 1619 project.
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- We're going to make a new date for america.
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- It's not 1776.
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- They tore down statues just like the left.
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- Did they rename buildings?
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- They were secularists.
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- They were atheist agnostics.
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- They had a god called roxio.
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- Reason they worshiped.
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- That's very similar to the left.
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- And then
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- They went after their enemies, and they
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- They took it to a new level of violence
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- Until they were victims of their own excesses
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- And, and killing people.
- 00:13:46.315 --> 00:13:48.651
- I mean, they they were the people
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- Brought in the reign of terror.
- 00:13:49.919 --> 00:13:51.153
- And when you read
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- All of the left wing hysteria about donald trump, you know,
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- We like to shoot him.
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- We'd like to hit him in the mouth.
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- We want to burn him up.
- 00:13:58.394 --> 00:13:59.595
- We want to explode by the hollywood crowd and politicians.
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- And you look at the deification of luigi mangione,
- 00:14:03.132 --> 00:14:07.970
- People like hassan piker, people like this graham plattner
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- With a tattoo.
- 00:14:11.707 --> 00:14:12.841
- It's a it's i went back and look
- 00:14:12.841 --> 00:14:18.180
- Convention agenda.
- 00:14:18.614 --> 00:14:21.684
- You know, what, what they believe in.
- 00:14:21.684 --> 00:14:23.319
- And they ran on with bill clinton and al gore,
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- And it was written by mark penn and doug showing.
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- And it's it's remarkable.
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- It's what it was for.
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- Yeah. secure borders, both.
- 00:14:32.962 --> 00:14:34.730
- Reasonable guys, by the way.
- 00:14:34.730 --> 00:14:36.932
- They were they were.
- 00:14:36.932 --> 00:14:37.666
- Shown they said,
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- Yeah, they wanted 100,000 new police officers.
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- They wanted to
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- Balance the budget, which they did for three, that
- 00:14:43.272 --> 00:14:45.975
- That agenda would be considered racist and homophobic,
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- Sexist, transphobic by the today's jacobin
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- That has nothing to
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- This party, has nothing to do with democrats.
- 00:14:54.116 --> 00:14:57.086
- It started with barack obama.
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- He started this revolution within the party,
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- And he really accentuated race.
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- And he was the one that gave us the binary
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- That 30% of the country now is nonwhite.
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- And they are by virtue of that, regardless of their wealth
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- Or class or privilege, they are the victimized
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- And the victimizers
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- Or the white, christian, heterosexual, male.
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- Oppressors.
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- And they owe people.
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- They owe them, you know, exemptions.
- 00:15:23.479 --> 00:15:25.714
- They owe them preference in hiring, admissions, reparations.
- 00:15:25.714 --> 00:15:29.785
- And that's that
- 00:15:30.152 --> 00:15:31.353
- Got the ball rolling and they've taken it from there. but,
- 00:15:31.353 --> 00:15:34.023
- The only way to stop them is to,
- 00:15:34.656 --> 00:15:37.292
- Is to defeat them at the polls.
- 00:15:37.292 --> 00:15:39.361
- And right now, the reason they're so angry,
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- They don't hold the house, they don't hold the senate,
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- They don't hold the white house,
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- They don't own the supreme court,
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- They don't have a majority there.
- 00:15:49.071 --> 00:15:50.706
- And donald trump is the first president
- 00:15:50.706 --> 00:15:52.541
- That said, where do they get their power when they don't have
- 00:15:52.541 --> 00:15:55.978
- These formal organs of political muscle?
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- And the answer is the foundations, academia,
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- The media.
- 00:16:04.319 --> 00:16:05.554
- And he's been going after them.
- 00:16:05.554 --> 00:16:07.189
- He's and the the deep state.
- 00:16:07.189 --> 00:16:08.991
- You know, he's laying off people in the deep state.
- 00:16:08.991 --> 00:16:10.926
- He's telling the universities,
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- We don't have to give you all this money,
- 00:16:11.960 --> 00:16:13.796
- Given your your own propaganda that you exercise.
- 00:16:13.796 --> 00:16:17.900
- So he's really trying to say there was a long term threat
- 00:16:17.900 --> 00:16:21.003
- From this hard left.
- 00:16:21.003 --> 00:16:22.204
- And there was a short term, short term. we're in power.
- 00:16:22.204 --> 00:16:24.773
- We got to stay in power in the midterms.
- 00:16:24.773 --> 00:16:26.508
- But the long term is institutional.
- 00:16:26.508 --> 00:16:29.378
- Npr, pbs, new york times, harvard university, stanford
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- University, professional sports, that whole culture
- 00:16:32.981 --> 00:16:37.519
- Is anti tradition and enterprise conservative.
- 00:16:37.519 --> 00:16:41.090
- And he's really trying to he's
- 00:16:41.090 --> 00:16:42.324
- Not trying to punish somebody just trying to say
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- We don't have to subsidize it anymore.
- 00:16:44.393 --> 00:16:46.462
- Yeah i think that's really that's
- 00:16:46.462 --> 00:16:48.097
- Why he's hated so much i think. yeah.
- 00:16:48.097 --> 00:16:50.032
- Td's trump derangement syndrome is a very real diagnosis.
- 00:16:50.032 --> 00:16:55.137
- You know the great victor davis hanson victor.
- 00:16:55.137 --> 00:16:57.639
- Thank you as always folks.
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- Check him out on x across social media.
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- Victor we'll see you again soon.
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- Keep up the great work my friend. god bless.
- 00:17:01.577 --> 00:17:03.712
- Thank you.
- 00:17:03.712 --> 00:17:04.379
- And coming up after the break,
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- Michele bachmann is here with a breakdown of yesterday's
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- Big rededicate 250 event in d.c..
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- You'll want to hear this. that's next donâ–ˆt move.
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- You'll want to hear this. that's next donâ–ˆt move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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- On sunday, our government
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- Publicly rededicated the united states to god.
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- It was an historic day on the national mall.
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- So can it have a lasting effect?
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- And move the needle
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- For our nation as we face threats at home and abroad.
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- Joining us now to break it
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- Down is our good friend, former congresswoman and current dean
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- Of the robertson school of government
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- At regent university, michele bachmann.
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- Michele.
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- Always great to see you.
- 00:17:47.359 --> 00:17:48.760
- Hey, you were there yesterday in d.c.
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- We were there, of course, at tbn as well.
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- Your impressions of the day to me, michele, it was biblical.
- 00:17:52.864 --> 00:17:55.934
- It was a josiah moment.
- 00:17:55.934 --> 00:17:58.203
- The leader of the land,
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- The president of the united states, his administration
- 00:17:59.404 --> 00:18:01.773
- Publicly rededicating the nation to the lord.
- 00:18:01.773 --> 00:18:04.776
- It seems that only good things can come out of that.
- 00:18:04.776 --> 00:18:09.080
- Well, that's true, because
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- Blessed is the nation whose god is the lord.
- 00:18:10.949 --> 00:18:13.251
- And when we have the leader of our nation calling the people
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- On the exact day to the day, the 250th anniversary
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- Of when the continental congress got on their knees
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- And proclaimed a read, a dedication of the nation, but
- 00:18:24.996 --> 00:18:28.066
- Also calling to god for prayer, repentance and humiliation.
- 00:18:28.066 --> 00:18:33.071
- And it wasn't just a nice thing to do.
- 00:18:33.071 --> 00:18:36.007
- It was because our nation was desperate.
- 00:18:36.007 --> 00:18:38.310
- And i think that today our nation is desperate.
- 00:18:38.310 --> 00:18:41.947
- It is really profound.
- 00:18:41.947 --> 00:18:43.481
- I know it was said both by franklin graham
- 00:18:43.481 --> 00:18:46.151
- And his dad, billy graham, in a clip that was shown
- 00:18:46.151 --> 00:18:49.421
- That said that our problem is sin,
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- And it was our problem 250 years ago.
- 00:18:51.556 --> 00:18:54.292
- It's our problem today.
- 00:18:54.292 --> 00:18:55.660
- Sin in our nation.
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- And so the people who gathered
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- Were gathered there at the request of the president,
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- And we came to do exactly what our founders did.
- 00:19:02.367 --> 00:19:05.804
- And that was to
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- Humble ourselves before god and then with sincere passion.
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- Praise the lord.
- 00:19:11.710 --> 00:19:13.311
- Pray to the lord
- 00:19:13.311 --> 00:19:14.746
- And also ask him for our nation and for the future.
- 00:19:14.746 --> 00:19:18.850
- I really this is probably what gives me more
- 00:19:18.850 --> 00:19:21.086
- Hope and more excitement than anything.
- 00:19:21.086 --> 00:19:23.321
- I'm sitting in my office.
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- I'm the dean of the graduate school of government.
- 00:19:24.723 --> 00:19:28.026
- We just launched our fourth
- 00:19:28.026 --> 00:19:29.561
- Class today for the phd program, master's programs
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- And i am here as a dean saying to everyone,
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- This is where the greatness of a nation lies.
- 00:19:37.902 --> 00:19:41.172
- When we humble ourselves from the lord.
- 00:19:41.172 --> 00:19:43.375
- And to think i, i it takes my breath away
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- That the president
- 00:19:46.211 --> 00:19:47.312
- Of the united states called our nation to do this,
- 00:19:47.312 --> 00:19:50.215
- To come and join together and he he spoke.
- 00:19:50.215 --> 00:19:54.119
- He read from the scriptures,
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- Telling a nation what we have to do,
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- That we have to repent and fall on our knees
- 00:19:58.256 --> 00:20:02.060
- Before god and, and, and ask for his humble help.
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- And that's what we did yesterday.
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- And was that you were there, erick.
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- Thousands and thousands of people
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- And what i've told everyone is that we were there to do
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- The work.
- 00:20:14.406 --> 00:20:15.273
- I expect that there will be blessing.
- 00:20:15.273 --> 00:20:17.976
- I spoke with people this morning about it.
- 00:20:17.976 --> 00:20:20.145
- I really do believe that we are going to see blessing ahead,
- 00:20:20.145 --> 00:20:24.282
- Because the formula is in the bible
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- For what nations need to do to please the lord.
- 00:20:27.185 --> 00:20:30.188
- This was exactly following what the bible says,
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- And so i really do believe that we are going to see god
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- Answer prayer. michel.
- 00:20:36.961 --> 00:20:38.463
- So well said. and the holy spirit was present.
- 00:20:38.463 --> 00:20:40.699
- What an incredible.
- 00:20:40.699 --> 00:20:41.800
- Not just an historic event, but a biblical event.
- 00:20:41.800 --> 00:20:43.935
- I really believe that.
- 00:20:43.935 --> 00:20:45.170
- Hey, one of the things we need to be praying for
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- When it comes to our leaders for wisdom, discernment, clarity
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- Is the iranian regime and what comes next.
- 00:20:50.942 --> 00:20:53.578
- President trump just rejected iran's latest ridiculous offer,
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- For peace.
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- So-called next steps here. michele.
- 00:20:58.683 --> 00:21:01.119
- It seems the time for talking
- 00:21:01.119 --> 00:21:02.587
- May be just about over when it comes to iran's regime.
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- We've got about a minute left. your thoughts on that?
- 00:21:05.757 --> 00:21:09.561
- Well, the talk is over.
- 00:21:10.061 --> 00:21:11.396
- The negotiation has gone on.
- 00:21:11.396 --> 00:21:12.997
- And truly, president trump is a man of peace.
- 00:21:12.997 --> 00:21:15.667
- He'd rather solve this diplomatically,
- 00:21:15.667 --> 00:21:17.535
- But it's not going to happen.
- 00:21:17.535 --> 00:21:19.003
- And so i think we may see a resumption
- 00:21:19.003 --> 00:21:22.574
- Of the hostilities of kinetic activity.
- 00:21:22.574 --> 00:21:25.243
- They call it the military.
- 00:21:25.243 --> 00:21:26.711
- And so i think both israel
- 00:21:26.711 --> 00:21:28.113
- And the united states will probably work together
- 00:21:28.113 --> 00:21:30.615
- Brilliantly like they have in the past.
- 00:21:30.615 --> 00:21:32.884
- And we may have another two weeks or so where
- 00:21:32.884 --> 00:21:35.920
- I think the united states and israel wants to take out
- 00:21:35.920 --> 00:21:38.490
- The remaining, threats that may be there.
- 00:21:38.490 --> 00:21:41.893
- And then i think
- 00:21:41.893 --> 00:21:43.294
- That may be that
- 00:21:43.294 --> 00:21:44.429
- I think we're going to see an end to this very soon.
- 00:21:44.429 --> 00:21:47.665
- And i think the regime will collapse,
- 00:21:47.665 --> 00:21:49.634
- Perhaps not right away, but i think it will come.
- 00:21:49.634 --> 00:21:53.238
- But i think as far as the kinetic activity goes,
- 00:21:53.238 --> 00:21:55.774
- Probably two more weeks of that and then i think things
- 00:21:55.774 --> 00:21:58.743
- Will tamp down.
- 00:21:58.743 --> 00:21:59.677
- Yeah, michele makes a lot of sense.
- 00:21:59.677 --> 00:22:01.045
- And this apocalyptic ideology, which you know so well,
- 00:22:01.045 --> 00:22:04.315
- That radical jihadi ideology
- 00:22:04.315 --> 00:22:06.518
- Makes it very unlikely
- 00:22:06.518 --> 00:22:07.719
- The iranian regime is going to come to any sort of deal.
- 00:22:07.719 --> 00:22:10.221
- That's reasonable.
- 00:22:10.221 --> 00:22:11.356
- Michele, great work as always, doing
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- Great work as well at regent university.
- 00:22:13.057 --> 00:22:15.193
- Michele bachmann, god bless. always great to see you.
- 00:22:15.193 --> 00:22:17.328
- We'll see you again soon.
- 00:22:17.328 --> 00:22:18.696
- And coming up after the break, my final thoughts on this
- 00:22:18.696 --> 00:22:21.499
- Historic biblical moment for our nation.
- 00:22:21.499 --> 00:22:24.836
- What went down yesterday in d.c.
- 00:22:24.836 --> 00:22:26.671
- On the national mall?
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- Why it matters to you and your family.
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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, folks.
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- As we wrap up here, a quick reminder rededicate to 50.
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- We were there all day yesterday. our tbn team covering it live.
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- You can watch it right now on tbn.
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- Plus, it's well worth the watch.
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- It made me think.
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- And a lot of speakers quoted this second
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- Chronicles chapter seven, verse 14.
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- If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves
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- And pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,
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- Then i will hear from heaven, and i will forgive their sin
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- And will heal their land.
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- That's exactly what happened
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- On the national mall yesterday, coming from our government.
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- Good things lie ahead and good things
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- Lie ahead on the show this week. stay here all week.
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- A lot of great interviews coming up. great
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- Analysis of what's happening and why it matters to you.
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- Till tomorrow. god bless you.
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- We'll see you soon.
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