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: Reflecting on 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | December 31, 2025
- 2025 began with headlines that shook nations.
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- Moments that defined leaders.
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- And events that reshape the world before our eyes.
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- Welcome to a very special stackelbeck tonight
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- Year in review.
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- Tonight we look back at the stories
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- From this past year that mattered most.
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- The ones that moved us, challenged and informed us,
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- And the ones still shaping the road ahead.
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- From rising global tensions and shifting alliances
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- To breakthroughs in the middle east,
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- To defining moments right here in america,
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- The first quarter of 2025 set the tone for everything
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- That followed.
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- Here on stackelbeck tonight, we were there with you
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- Every night at the breaking point and in conversation
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- With the voices who know these issues best.
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- By donald john trump.
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- Who solemnly swear that i will faithfully execute.
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- That i will faithfully.
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- Execute the office of president of the united states.
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- The office of president of the united states.
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- So help me god. the graduation. speech, because.
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- Welcome to a new age for america.
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- I am in washington, d.c.
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- On this inauguration day 2025.
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- He called it america's day of liberation.
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- We will not forget our country.
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- We will not forget our constitution,
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- And we will not forget our god.
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- We now have a commander in chief who projects strength,
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- Which is what you need in a president
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- And the commander in chief of the greatest country ever.
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- It's not politics as usual, and that's not what we want,
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- Nor what the american people deserve.
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- We deserve the people that are going to actually represent us.
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- The wildfires that have torn through los angeles
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- This month have scorched tens of thousands of acres of land,
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- Destroyed some 12,000 structures, including thousands
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- Of residential homes, and left at least 27 people dead.
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- The situation with the fires is so much more complex
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- Than simple budget cuts, and in fact, the budgets weren't
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- Cut there
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- In southern california, as evidenced
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- By the fact that this fall city council
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- Voted to increase the budget by $350 million.
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- The point is what those dollars go to.
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- Newsom gave the explanation as to why the dam wasn't full.
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- They drained the entire dam because there was
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- A covering over the dam,
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- And it had a hole in the top of it,
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- So they drained the entire thing.
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- People come here, they talk about,
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- You know, there's problems or needs.
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- They park the car and come up
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- And there's definitely no barriers
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- Whatsoever when it comes to thank god
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- That good people that are in need.
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- In just the first seven days of his presidency,
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- Trump has sent the military to help stop the invasion
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- At our southern border and has deported
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- Hundreds of violent, criminal illegal aliens.
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- One such illegal alien from venezuela brutally murdered
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- A georgia nursing student named lincoln riley.
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- Yesterday,
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- President trump signed the lincoln riley act into law.
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- What you've seen as a result of
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- That is a very stark, decrease in border apprehension numbers.
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- I think it's over a 90% decrease.
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- And i think that's why you're seeing so much success
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- In a short period of time that we're seeing today.
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- Folks, he's only been in office for 38 days.
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- But in that time,
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- President trump has accomplished more than most presidents
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- Do during an entire term, including nearly 100
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- Executive orders and over 400 executive actions
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- Designed to correct the chaos of the biden
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- Years and chart a new course for america.
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- He signed an executive order
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- That created the first ever stand alone office
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- For people of faith.
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- And it's not only in the white house.
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- It's in the west wing of the white house.
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- The moving average.
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- What this administration is doing is phenomenal.
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- We have a border again,
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- Hopefully seeing the end of the russian-ukrainian war.
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- We're seeing a complete rebalancing,
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- Kind of the mafi of washington, dc
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- And who they are accountable to.
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- Swamps really being drained.
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- Today, i also took action to restore
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- A maximum pressure policy on the iranian regime,
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- And we will once again enforce
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- The most aggressive possible sanctions,
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- Drive iranian oil exports to zero, and diminish
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- The regime's capacity to fund terror
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- Throughout the region and throughout the world.
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- Folks, israel sees a golden opportunity here
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- To eliminate
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- The iranian nuclear threat, and it's not hard to see why.
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- In recent months, israel has destroyed iran's air
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- Defenses and dismantled its terror proxies like hamas
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- And hezbollah.
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- After hamas said that the ceasefire is frozen, basically
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- On hold because of unstated israeli violations,
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- Netanyahu said, okay, if you do not release
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- The hostages, all of them, by saturday at noon,
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- All the gloves are off and we're back into hostilities.
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- The trump administration has said to some extent, yeah,
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- We're not expecting you to, to keep hamas in power.
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- We're not expecting you
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- To accept anything short of their surrender.
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- And if you don't get it, go back in and do what you gotta do.
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- Up next, tariff wars.
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- Faith in the west wing, operation rising lion
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- And president trump's stand against iran's nuclear threat.
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- All that and more.
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- When we return.
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- When we return.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck
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- Tonight year in review.
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- As the year pressed on, the storylines didn't slow down.
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- If anything, they intensified.
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- Global markets braced for an economic showdown.
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- The 12 day war in the middle east
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- Reshaped regional realities, and a nationwide push began
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- To confront and defund radicalized college campuses.
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- Here's more.
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- The world is in a tizzy over president trump's decision
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- To impose tariffs on countries that have been imposing
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- Tariffs on us for decades.
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- I think our markets are going to boom,
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- Kind of give it a little chance,
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- But we're taking in jobs and we're taking in industry.
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- We're taking it trillions of dollars, i think.
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- I think our markets are going to boo.
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- With the communist regime in beijing.
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- He's living 145% tariffs on chinese goods.
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- You know, we americans, we've got to realize
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- That we could
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- Not have maintained really bad trade policies for decades
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- And think that we can get out of this without some cost.
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- Listen, my father's a fighter.
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- My father's always wanted to put america first.
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- You know, when you're seeing it around the world,
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- We're not getting used and abused.
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- We're taking in billions of billions of dollars
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- Worth of tariffs, and we're putting our industry
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- That has been robbed out of our country.
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- We're putting that again.
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- You know, the first again.
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- On tuesday, saudi arabia pledged to invest over $600
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- Billion in the united states,
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- And qatar yesterday signed a deal with the u.s.
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- Worth 1.2 trillion.
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- And then today,
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- During the final leg of his trip,
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- The president secured a $1.4 trillion investment
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- Deal with the uae.
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- Trump is using classic leverage to.
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- Dictate what he wants to see happen
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- In the middle east, which is investment,
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- Tech.
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- Peace.
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- To be able to gain favor and to put america
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- First.
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- You have to remember,
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- Easter 2024 under joe biden was transgender visibility day
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- To easter 2025, where it was not just one day of celebration.
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- It was like holy week
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- Exponentially glorified at the white house.
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- And, it's an answer to prayer.
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- You may have never had a president,
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- In my lifetime.
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- That has been so crystal clear, about his faith.
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- There is revival.
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- I'm telling you, there's revival
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- And renewal taking place in america.
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- And it is led not just by pastors,
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- But by the person occupying that space,
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- The pennsylvania avenue.
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- On american college campuses, president trump
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- Now pulling funding for the likes of harvard.
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- Instead of fighting anti-semitism on their campus,
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- They have decided that they're going to fight
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- The trump administration and somehow demand
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- Funding it through our u.s court system.
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- Trump's point is, you want the federal money, then
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- You need to follow the letter of the law.
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- When it comes to the civil rights act,
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- Which talks about nondiscrimination,
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- It doesn't say you can discriminate
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- Against whites and in favor of blacks.
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- All discrimination is bad. it's not allowed.
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- Here's the funding.
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- These colleges that are doing little
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- And certainly not enough to fight
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- Anti-semitism, this sort of activity
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- That's going on in these college
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- Campuses is funded in part by qatar,
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- Communist china, iran, hamas.
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- So this is very, very important. what they're doing.
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- Which brings me to the act of evil
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- That we saw wednesday night in washington, dc,
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- Where a young jewish couple was gunned down,
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- Murdered in cold blood by a pro palestinian domestic terrorist.
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- Whether you're on the streets of dc
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- Or if you're in israel or if you're in europe,
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- Jew hatred is alive and it's well.
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- And this is the natural consequences for turning a
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- Blind eye to this state sponsored radicalization
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- And the globalization of the intifada
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- And the bringing of the hate education to our campuses.
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- Look at these scenes from la.
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- It began with coordinated ice raids across la last friday
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- Targeting criminal networks, murderers, gangsters,
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- Sex offenders and other criminal elements that entered the u.s.
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- Illegally.
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- That's when the violence exploded.
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- Over 1000 rioters
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- Surrounded a federal law enforcement building.
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- They assaulted ice
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- Officers, slashed tires, and vandalized federal property.
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- It's crazy to me that california decides
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- To throw a fit and want to protest and say
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- Negative things
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- About the president,
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- Because he's enforce a federal law
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- That we've all, as a nation, agreed
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- That this would be law if they wanted.
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- The law to change.
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- Didn't congress need to get together and change the laws?
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- But as the law stand on the books,
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- You cannot remain or enter into this country illegally.
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- We don't tolerate assault on law and order in our country.
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- We simply don't.
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- And president trump is finally responding as he should be.
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- In the early morning hours of friday, june 13th,
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- Israel launched operation rising lion, the goal
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- To eliminate
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- Iran's nuclear weapons
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- Program and cripple its military capabilities.
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- In the past 24 hours, we've taken out top
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- Military commanders, senior nuclear scientists,
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- The islamic regime's most significant enrichment facility,
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- And a large portion of its ballistic missile arsenal.
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- And on saturday night, president trump delivered
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- A decisive blow to iran's nuclear weapons facilities.
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- At fordo is farhan and natanz.
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- Here's more from the president.
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- Our objective was the destruction of iran's
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- Nuclear enrichment capacity, and a stop to the nuclear threat
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- Posed by the world's number one state sponsor of terror.
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- Tonight, i can report to the world
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- That the strikes were a spectacular military success.
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- This is an historic moment,
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- And i really hope that this will lead to stability
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- And prosperity in the middle east for everyone.
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- Coming up, the texas flood that left communities
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- Reeling, prime minister netanyahu on his unique bond
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- With president trump
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- And the assassination that shook the world.
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- Stay with us.
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- 2025 biggest moments continue on stackelbeck tonight.
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- Year in review.
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- Year in review.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck
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- Tonight we are continuing our year
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- In review
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- With a season marked by upheaval and unexpected turns.
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- Texas faced an historic flood that left cities underwater.
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- Prime minister netanyahu opened up to me about one of the most
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- Consequential diplomatic partnerships of our time,
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- And a single assassination sent shockwaves across the globe.
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- Here's how it all unfolded.
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- At least 89 people
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- Were killed in flash floods that struck 27 children.
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- Survivors have shared gut wrenching accounts
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- Of what they saw and personally experienced.
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- The amount of human loss in such a narrow area,
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- And the innocent, these young children.
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- It really does break the heart of people watching.
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- But to that area in texas, they're reeling.
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- They need our prayers.
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- And that's why i get excited every day i wake up.
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- I know we're saving lives
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- Less. women are being sexually assaulted
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- Because of more secure.
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- Less children are dying
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- Every day. we're rescuing children
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- From forced labor for sex trafficking.
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- President trump saving lives every day.
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- And to be a small part of it.
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- I'm on.
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- The iranian regime is facing a new crisis.
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- The ayatollahs now
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- Admit that iran's dams will be empty by september.
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- For folks, this is iran's worst drought in a century.
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- The economy is pretty much in freefall in iran.
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- There's no water. there's limited electricity.
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- Absolute chaos on the ground, despite the fact
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- That they're trying to put on a brave face.
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- Because that's
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- How you'll ultimately
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- Get rid of the threat of iran when iran's people revolt
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- Against them.
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- And that revolt is coming,
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- There will be a triggering action
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- If that changes,
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- The whole middle east changes and we move away from war and we
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- Rapidly move towards peace.
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- Welcome back to israel, erick.
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- Great to be back to long. your second home.
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- My second home.
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- We've been talking off-camera
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- A little bit about your role here.
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- Now the passion with which i speak and
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- The spirit with which i speak doesn't come from,
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- You know, i grew up with a jewish family,
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- And therefore i don't have a choice.
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- I have a choice.
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- My choice is the truth.
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- That's my choice.
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- And i've seen it. i've lived it, and i want to share.
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- I think particularly now, after october 7th,
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- When the world is turning against the jewish people,
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- It's important to be standing on the walls of jerusalem,
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- Standing with the jewish people and standing for truth.
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- Mr. prime minister, thanks so much for
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- Joining us here in jerusalem and hosting us.
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- Hey, you mentioned president trump.
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- Can you talk about the importance of that partnership
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- Now? it's really transforming this region.
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- We've always had a great alliance with the united states.
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- So successive prime ministers and presidents.
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- But this is a. personal bond.
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- And ideological bond.
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- We both believe in peace from strength.
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- But we also believe that first comes trump and comes the peace.
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- It's been over 24
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- Hours now since a lion fell.
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- The one and only charlie kirk, our dear friend and tbn
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- Programmer, assassinated yesterday in cold blood.
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- Like you, i'm still trying to process.
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- It doesn't seem real.
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- Charlie kirk was a larger than life figure.
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- Charlie was a giant of his generation,
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- A champion of liberty
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- And an inspiration to millions and millions of people.
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- We miss him greatly.
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- Yet i have no doubt that charlie's voice and the courage
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- He put into the hearts of countless people,
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- Especially young people, will live on.
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- It was unmistakable.
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- At sunday's memorial service for charlie kirk.
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- For four solid hours.
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- Speaker after speaker, including our very top
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- Government officials, proclaimed the gospel of jesus christ
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- Not only for the
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- Massive audience in attendance at arizona's state farm stadium,
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- But also for the untold millions who were watching live
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- Around the world.
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- Of course,
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- A central theme in the message of jesus is forgiveness.
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- Charlie's widow, erica, gave an unforgettable example
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- Of that during her speech. on the cross.
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- Our savior said.
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- Father,
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- Forgive them for they not know.
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- What they do.
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- That man.
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- That young man.
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- I forgive him.
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- I think there's going to be
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- A resurrection of people saying enough, though.
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- We're going to fight evil in our own neighborhoods,
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- Our own families.
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- Sometimes we're not going to look away anymore
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- If that happens.
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- That will be mr. kirk's legacy.
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- And i think there's a good chance it may.
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- In the end,
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- This entire battle between lions and scavengers
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- Isn't a battle external to any of us as individuals.
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- It's something that we, again, have to look into our own hearts
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- Every morning and decide whether to be a lion.
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- And that's something that can start
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- Every single morning with every single decision that we make.
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- And so this is just a
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- Sort of broad call to change our politics.
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- It's a broad call
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- To find out which is best and strongest in ourselves.
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- Revivify that and then act in the world on it.
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- Stay tuned.
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- Our 2025 year in review continues next on stackelbeck
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- Tonight.
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- Tonight.
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- Welcome back to stackelbeck tonight.
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- We have walked you through
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- The moments that shook the world during this past year,
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- As global power shifts accelerated,
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- As new threats emerged when the world least expected them.
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- And as leaders face decisions that will shape 2026 and beyond,
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- The headlines didn't just continue, they intensified.
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- Before we step into 2026, let's revisit the turning point
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- That closed out an unforgettable 2025.
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- Take a look.
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- And the hostages are coming home.
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- Hamas has agreed to president trump's gaza peace plan
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- And put an end to the gaza war.
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- Right as we marked two years since the october 7th massacre.
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- As you know, last night we reached a momentous
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- Breakthrough in the middle east,
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- Something that people said was never going to be done.
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- It was just such joy seeing them released.
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- But the one person who could
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- Work on solving the problem was president trump.
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- When you're right underneath it, you realize israel,
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- The idf and the israeli people are on the front lines
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- Of fighting
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- In the central front in the war for western civilization.
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- I'm optimistic.
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- I believe that we will expand the abraham accords
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- With more arab countries and with more muslim countries.
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- And i'm sure that president trump, with his leadership,
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- Will be the one who will actually push
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- The sides to make it happen.
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- Islamo communist
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- Foreign mom donny won a big victory in new york city's
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- Mayoral race who's promising free housing,
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- Free bus rides and all sorts of free stuff that he says
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- He'll pay for through, you guessed it, higher taxes.
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- Everything mom wants to do costs insane amounts of money,
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- But it will have a tremendous influence on taxes
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- In the financial capital of the world.
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- On the 25th anniversary of nine over 11,
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- Who will be the mayor of new york city?
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- Someone that is an avowed supporter
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- To islamic terrorist organizations
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- To include his mother and father so that apple did not fall
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- Far from the tree?
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- It's not just an issue
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- For one city, it's an issue for an entire nation.
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- Once you start emboldening people like this,
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- Once you start encouraging this kind of thing,
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- You. finally there is momentum building
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- Against the muslim brotherhood here in america.
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- The brotherhood is the granddaddy of them all.
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- When it comes to modern day islamic terrorism.
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- The muslim brotherhood, who wrote a plan in 1991
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- Specifically for north america to dismantle the west,
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- Destroy the west, and establish a stormy government on earth.
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- And they have a very simple plan,
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- And it's actually brilliant.
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- It's infiltrate, populate, dominate, never assimilate,
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- And then create a caliphate and then bring upon sharia law.
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- And they do it by using our laws.
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- We need to be on an effort to save our society,
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- Because the other side has a very strategic plan
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- That they're now in the process of implementing.
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- From the middle
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- East to washington, d.c., 2025
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- Reshape the world in ways few could have predicted.
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- From shifting alliances and rising threats
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- To moments of courage and clarity.
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- These stories weren't just headlines.
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- They were turning points.
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- Thank you for joining us night after night,
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- And for standing with us as we bring you the truth,
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- Insight and clarity you will not find anywhere else.
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- On behalf of our
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- Entire stackelbeck tonight team, thank you for watching
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- And for being part.
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- 2026 is already shaping up to be another history making year,
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- And we'll be right here with you every night, every story,
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- Every development that impacts you.
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- Until then, god bless you.
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- Happy new year and we'll see you in 2026.
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