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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Trump’s First 6 Months | Stakelbeck Tonight | July 22, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck.
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And in just six months, our borders have been secured.
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Military recruitment is surging and america's
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Adversaries are suddenly on the defensive.
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Gender madness, child sex changes and dea
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Are out the window.
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And so-called elite universities are being held to account
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For fostering rampant anti-americanism
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And anti-semitism.
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And now the corrupt deep state in dc is on the verge
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Of being exposed in ways that will shake our nation.
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Folks, that's just a very small sampling of what's
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Unfolded over president trump's first half year back in office.
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In just six months, we've gone from a death spiral
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Of socialism, secularism and separation
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To a return of the american bedrocks of faith,
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Family and freedom, not to mention the return of
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Plain common sense.
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But the fight for the very soul of america
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Is just beginning, and many difficult
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Battles still lie ahead, both at home and abroad.
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Joining us now to break it down is renowned historian,
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Bestselling author and senior fellow
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At the hoover institution, doctor victor davis hanson.
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Victor, always great to see you.
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And hey you.
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For years we're on the frontlines
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Of calling out this russia collusion hoax.
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And now talk about vindication.
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Tulsi gabbard, director of national intelligence,
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Releases information about these declassify documents.
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Victor, showing that this hoax started at the very top
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Of the obama administration with president obama himself.
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What's been your take on these stunning revelations
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That we've seen over the past few days?
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Well, it was always very strange.
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In 2000, 16, during the campaign of that year
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And also during trump's first few months in office,
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Hillary clinton, would always talk
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About 17 intelligence agencies have concluded
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That donald trump was colluding with the russians.
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And then we heard james clapper
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And john brennan say that, but we never got any
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Of the assessments.
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In other words, we never had any hard data.
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We were just told that that was an interpretation
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Of what these subordinate agencies had said.
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And now, of course, when joe biden left office,
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We have the raw data
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That these 17 intelligence agencies had actually reported
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To james clapper and john brennan
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That they didn't find any actionable collusion at all,
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And that people who had been apprized by brennan
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And clapper, barack obama and then by extension, candidate
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Hillary clinton,
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And then private citizen hillary clinton later,
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They were giving us this false
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Narrative that he had colluded because of 17 intelligence.
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But now we find out that all that was a lie, that these
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These agencies had never found any collusion.
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And the only mystery now is, was barack obama as a lame
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Duck president, saying to these people
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In the transition, clapper, and by extension, comey,
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But also brennan, please ignore these,
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Assessments of these agencies and give me what i want.
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Or were they misleading obama or were they both colluding?
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And it's hard to know.
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You know, how big of a scandal is this, victor, in the annals?
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You're a great historian, of course, in
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The annals of american history.
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If this is indeed the case with tulsi gabbard just laid out
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And perhaps goes to the very top of the obama administration,
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How big of a scandal would this be in terms
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Of historically number one?
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And number two, what about accountability?
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Would we see someone like a brennan,
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A clapper, or these people who could be
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Facing even prison time?
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Yeah, the the strange thing about this
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Is that it was an effort in 2016 to destroy the trump campaign.
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And we even have dutch intelligence intercepted
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Russian intelligence known to clapper and brennan.
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And the dutch said, the russians are weird.
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I mean, they don't know what's going on
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Because they're being blamed from collusion
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By hillary clinton.
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And they
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They did tap into hillary clinton's, but they didn't know
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Because they had not colluded with donald trump.
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They were mystified why she was saying that.
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And the only thing they could come up with is
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She was trying to hide the fact that she had exposed her email.
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So what i'm getting at, it was all through the campaign,
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But what was really unique
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Is when he started his tenure, it didn't stop.
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In other words, as a parting shot, obama
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Unleashed comey and brennan and clapper and as private
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Citizens, they went on msnbc, cnn, comey was still,
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As you know, fbi director.
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And that resulted in robert mueller, 22 months, $40 million
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That ended up
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The first two years of the trump administration and eventually,
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I mean, essentially paralyzed it.
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So it was, you know,
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We've never seen and that concentrated effort
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To destroy a campaign and then to destroy a presidency.
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And yet there was no evidence ever
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That there was, the steele dossier had.
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No, it was never certified.
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It was never confirmed.
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And it was mostly point by point rejected.
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And yet these people went on television
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And in the public day after day.
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And comey, as fbi director, kept insisting.
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And then finally, very quickly,
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Comey lied, or essentially 245 times the house intelligence.
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He just had a committee. so i don't know.
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I don't know what you're talking about.
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I don't remember
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Then he leaked a classified conversation
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With the president to the new york times via an intermediary.
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Clapper lied under oath, to the senate
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When he said the nsa doesn't spy on people.
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Brennan lied twice when he said that he didn't tap into senate,
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Staffer computers, and there were no collateral damage
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Of civilian casualties from our predator attack.
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So all of them had a record of
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Not being truthful and often under the under oath.
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Yeah.
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It was a dark chapter in american history.
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And there must be accountability.
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There must be consequences for what happened.
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It was a relentless campaign of deceit and lies.
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Victor, as you just laid out,
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Had about a minute left before the break.
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Then you will be right back.
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The russia collusion, hoax
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Indictments, impeachable impeachments, bogus all around.
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Can you talk real quick about the resilience
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Of donald trump through all this?
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It's really been amazing to watch.
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Yeah.
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It is
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As soon as mueller was finished, remember then we had the bogus
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First impeachment where vindman hadn't even he
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He didn't even report it.
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He just called up his friend sara and said, hey,
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Would you be the whistleblower?
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And he never even heard the conversation.
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Zelensky said there was nothing wrong.
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He was on the other end. and then we went right into
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The laptop.
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Disinformation that really affected the 2020 election.
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And then, of course,
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93 indictments by five different court hearings.
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We had trump taken off the ballot,
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The at least the attempt to
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In 25 states, they raided mar-a-lago.
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So we've never witnessed that level
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Of coordination to destroy an ex-president in future.
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Candidate. no.
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And yet he is still standing.
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And after the break, we'll talk more about that. it's amazing.
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We'll talk more about it with the one and only victor davis.
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Hanson.
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How about these first six months
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Of president trump's second term, a sea change?
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Needless to say, in america and around
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The world will break it down with victor 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 victor
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Davis hanson, renowned historian, bestselling
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Author many times over of great books
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Like the end of everything, which you can pick up
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Amazon.com wherever books are sold.
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And of course,
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Be sure to follow victor on x youtube across social media.
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Victor at the top
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I laid out to some of president trump's
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Accomplishments during his first half year back in office.
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What's your report card for the first six months of the
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Second term for donald trump?
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Well, i think the economy, if you look at the may and june,
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The latest figures on inflation, job creation,
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Income, savings rates,
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Revenues,
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They defied all expectations.
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Even the wall street journal on march
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That had forecasted rough, rough times
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Has now readjusted almost everything.
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The two biggest things, though, i think that are astounding, is
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We were told you could not close the border
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Without comprehensive immigration reform,
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And nobody in their right mind ever thought
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There would be virtually zero illegal entries.
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And already a million people self-deport
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In the first six months.
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The other one is
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The military under biden said
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That you could not really recruit people
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To existing, levels that were required.
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We were 45 to 55,000 recruits short.
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They cited gangs, obesity,
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Drugs, competition with private industry.
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And here we are again, six months and all the recruitment,
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Levels that had been set by prior administration,
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These have been either met or exceeded.
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So those were really astounding achievement.
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You know, you know, you just wrote a great piece on folks.
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Victor hanson.com, by the way. check it out.
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All victor's great work.
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But you wrote a great piece basically
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Saying that president trump
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Is conducting chemotherapy right now,
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In the united states after four years of joe biden.
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Talk more about the sea change that we've seen.
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I mean, in an instant, we went from madness.
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And then president trump is sworn in
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And things are coming back around to sanity
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And common sense.
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It's really been remarkable,
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Remarkable to behold what he's accomplished in just six months.
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Talk more about that sea change.
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And again, as you said,
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He really is conducting a chemotherapy of sorts
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After years of madness that took root here.
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You know, use that metaphor
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Because people don't like chemotherapy.
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It's very toxic.
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And it can can be dangerous, but
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It's very easy to let in 10,000 people a day.
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All you have to do is, you know, just let them in.
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But it's very hard to find them in a country of 340 million,
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Especially when you have 600 sanctuary jurisdictions.
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So it's very hard and it's easy to be critical of the hard
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Task of finding people
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Who broke the law and following the law
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And returning them to their homelands.
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But it's very easy to break the law and let them in.
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The same thing about deterrence.
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It's very easy
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Just to leave afghanistan and $50 billion in munitions.
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It's very hard to convince the iranians, the russians,
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The houthis, hamas, hezbollah, all of our enemies
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That were serious after
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We essentially destroyed deterrence, we had attacks,
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Weakly against our installations in syria during the biden,
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The situation in iraq. and he did very little.
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So i use that term as that.
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Sometimes people are very, very critical of trump
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Because he's taking
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These hard actions, but
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They're in response to a toxic tumor that was created by,
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Joe biden.
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And we could use that metaphor, almost everything from crime
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To die to energy, etc..
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Yeah, they're very well said.
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And by the way, in terms of the border crisis,
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You've been documenting that for years.
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You've been on the front lines
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Living in california and stunning.
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We now have the most secure border,
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Probably in american history.
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And that's saying something
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After the madness of the past four years, the return of peace
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Through strength, something you've written about
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Under donald trump, i guess we call it the trump doctrine.
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Iran obviously humiliated and during the 12 day war
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And trump
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Ordering the strikes on iran's nuclear facilities,
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Taking a tougher line against russia.
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Now, it seems that our enemies are back on notice.
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And america,
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Once again is filling the role as leader of the free world.
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Can you talk more about the peace
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Through strength doctrine that trump has put back into place?
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Yeah, i think he's misunderstood.
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People on the left said he was a neo isolationist.
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He was withdrawing from alliances,
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And our traditional leadership role in the world.
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People.
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Others said that he was a nation builder
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Or neo conservative interventionist.
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He was neither. he was a jacksonian.
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He just said, no better friend, no worse enemy.
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We're going to protect our interests
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And our close allies interest.
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And from time to time, whether it's in the my his first term
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Dealing with so many or baghdadi or isis or the wagner group,
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Or in the second administration dealing
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With the iranian nuclear installations, at certain times
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He will use force in a cost benefit analysis that's in
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The interest of the west and especially the united states.
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At other times, he does not want endless wars
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And boots on the ground in the middle east, etc.
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So he's been mischaracterized, but you can see that
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He has he's really split the difference.
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He went in 28 minutes, he took out the nuclear
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Facilities and around.
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And then almost immediately people said,
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This is going to be an endless war.
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And then he said, we're now having a ceasefire.
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And it didn't it didn't continue.
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So he's got that ability to use force.
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But in, in conditions in, in aspects that favor
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Our strengths, rather than getting bogged down
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In the streets of baghdad or something like that. yeah.
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And by the way, taking fire
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From the isolationist wing of his own right flank,
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You mentioned the 12 day war, the strikes against iran,
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Trump and bibi, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu.
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Where does this partnership, victor, rank
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In the historic annals?
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I think of
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Perhaps reagan, thatcher, pope john paul the second,
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Working together to bring down the soviet empire
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During the 80s, now the iranian empire on the ropes
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Thanks to this trump bibi partnership.
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I think back churchill, fdr during world war two.
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What do you make of this partnership is very close
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Partnership between trump and netanyahu
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And what they've been able to accomplish
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And what they may still accomplish.
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The abraham accords back on the table
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And a lot of things it seems to look forward to.
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Yeah.
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I think your, your examples are just right.
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Thatcher, reagan, and even it's a little bit
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More fundamental, churchill and roosevelt.
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But this idea that two allies in the west coordinate
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And synchronize.
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And in the case of these two, i don't think the united states
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Could have gone in for just a few minutes
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And taken out that facility if netanyahu had not first, for
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Essentially a week over a week had taken out the air
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Defenses, he'd taken out the air force, he'd taken out
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A lot of the missile, anti-missile, aircraft missiles.
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And by the same token,
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I don't think netanyahu
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Could have completely done the damage that we did
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Because he lacked the ordnance and the bombers to do that.
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So they kind of synchronized each other and complemented.
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That was misunderstood.
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A lot of critics on the right said that,
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And the left said that trump was bibi's puppet.
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And and people said that bibi was just a slave to trump.
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But it was actually
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A pretty good partnership where they
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They matched their respective skills
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And they took in consideration their own domestic constituency.
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So they did a good job.
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Yeah, they've accomplished a lot together, needless to say,
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During trump's first term, of course.
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And now in the second term already,
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And with the abraham accords seemingly
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Back on the table, saudi arabia, others could be some
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Optimistic times in the world's most chaotic region
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In the middle east for the first time in a long time.
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Up next,
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More with victor davis hanson empires rise and empires fall.
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Victor is an expert on that.
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We're going to ask him
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About the state of the west and western civilization.
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You won't want to miss it. that's next.
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You won't want to miss it. that's next.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight,
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We're talking to the great victor
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Davis hanson, senior fellow at the hoover institution.
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Bestselling author.
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Victor, we were talking before the break
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About president trump basically conducting
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Chemotherapy here in the united states
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And extracting some of these cancerous tumors
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That have set in over the years,
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One of those tumors is undoubtedly this woke movement
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From die to gender madness.
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The list goes on and on.
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Do you get the sense now that, god willing, woke
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Ism may be on the decline and on the ropes?
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Yeah, i do, and i do because it's fundamentally illegal,
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As we know from the civil rights legislation of the 1960s.
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Title nine, title pipe, title seven of civil rights codes.
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But more importantly, the 2023 supreme court
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Reaffirmation that you could not use race
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For admissions, hiring, tenure as a pertain to university.
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But it was interpreted for everything.
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And so
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What i'm getting out is trump
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Just reminded the country
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That you cannot have separate graduations,
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You cannot have separate dorms predicated on race.
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The universities thought they were bigger than the law,
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And i don't think they really understood that.
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When trump
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Confronted them on a variety of issues, from surcharges
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That were exorbitant to this race based policies,
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They had to, not following the bill of rights
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And the first amendment, etc.,
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But they didn't realize that he had the public,
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The public on his side, and he had the law on his side.
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And i think you're seeing now that a lot of these universities
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Are trying to strike some kind of deal
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Before they get they face severe federal penalties.
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Yeah. you are a professor. of course.
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You know the university system very well.
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Can you talk more about
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You've seen it up close, the moral rot, i'm sad to say.
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In our elite universities we're talking ivy league.
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We've seen the pro hamas mobs obviously on the streets,
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The moral rot in our universities.
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And president trump now again trying to extract that.
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But how deep of a hole has been dug at our universities?
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Is there any hope to turn them around?
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It's probably, it seems, a long term project.
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Yeah it is.
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At stanford, we had four months of pro hamas
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People camping out illegally overnight,
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Day after day on campus.
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They they ripped down, jewish students posters.
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There's are a faculty task force, very liberal found
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There was endemic anti-semitism
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At stanford as there is in the ivy league.
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We're going to have to really address
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About 6 or 7 things,
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And i think we're going to have to tax endowment.
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That was in the big, beautiful bill
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There and the big beautiful bill and trump's executive order.
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They're not going to be able
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To charge the government 55% on grants.
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I had a federal grant
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A couple of times, and believe me, you can
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15% is all the university needs is overhead
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And that and,
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If they're going to be political,
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This tax on the endowment will remind them of that.
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They're going to have to comply
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With executive orders about anti-semitism.
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They have over 300,000 foreign students that pay
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A premium, 110% of tuition, room and board.
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They count on that.
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But the problem is that
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The majority of those students
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Are from illiberal regimes, either
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In china or the middle east, and they've really affected,
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The universities
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Because the university wants their money
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And they give them undue latitude.
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They don't enforce the law
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When they break campus rules and protocols.
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So they've got a they've got a real problem.
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And i think
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95% of the professors from most studies are left wing.
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And so,
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They just don't want the public to know about all this.
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That's why
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Everybody thought donald trump was wrong to confront them.
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But some of us in the university knew that if he did
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And this was exposed
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With the public,
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They'd be shocked about separate,
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You know, choosing the race of your roommate in advance,
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As they do in some colleges, things like that.
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The public just had no stomach for.
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Yeah, it's a world turned upside down.
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And victor,
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95% of these professors are left wing.
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If that about says it all,
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I think it's about accountability.
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As you've been laying out and also leverage.
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Donald trump's got all the leverage
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And he's not afraid to use it.
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That includes with the university system,
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That also includes with our nato allies and europe.
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As you scan europe right now and you scan the west,
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What's your take on the state of judeo-christian western
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Civilization, the united states under trump,
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Obviously a bastion, an island of sanity, it seems.
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But western europe,
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You look at london, you look at paris,
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Seems to be in dire straits in many ways. how do you see it?
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I'm very worried about europe.
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I hope they can make their promises about nato spending,
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But they're going to have to have fundamental change.
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They have the wherewithal to do that. they have open borders.
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15 to 16% of the population is islamic.
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In many of these countries are not assimilated
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Or integrated into the body politic.
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They're green.
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New deal type of energy.
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Pivots have pretty much destroyed
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The competitiveness of european industry.
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They pay about double the rates of electricity
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Because of their reliance
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On wind subsidized wind and solar as we do.
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And, they were essentially under armed
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Or even unarmed until recently.
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And i don't know how they're going to make their 5% promises
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In a few years when they have open borders,
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Their fertility rate is worse than ours.
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We went from 2.1 to about 1.78.
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They're down to 1.4, 1.5.
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So they're not they're going to lose millions of people.
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And yet they're bringing in people
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From foreign countries, often illegally,
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That are antithetical to their values.
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So let's hope that
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Somebody they'll find somebody like trump or reagan.
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And you see a little bit in eastern europe,
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And in italy and holland, but maybe these conservative
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Renaissance us can do something about france and germany
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And the uk because they're in dire straits.
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Truly, truly, victor.
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Well said. and god willing, to what you just laid out.
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Great job as always, folks. no one does it better.
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Victor davis hanson check him out.
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Victor hanscom on ecs across social media.
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Victor we can't thank enough. great break down.
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Thanks god bless you. will see you again soon.
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And coming up after the break, my final thoughts
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On what we were just discussing.
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The only real way to save a civilization.
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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
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Stakelbeck tonight, folks, as we wrap up here.
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What a great break down with victor davis hanson,
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One of america's greatest historians.
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And we talked about saving western civilization, judeo
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Christian civilization in america and in europe.
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There's been a drift, obviously, away from god.
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But the book of acts chapter 17, verses
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30 and 31, warns about that in the past,
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God overlooks such ignorance, but now he commands all people
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Everywhere to repent, for
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He has set a day when he will judge the world with justice
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By the man he has appointed.
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He has given proof of this
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To everyone by raising him from the dead.
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That him is the lord jesus.
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If we don't turn back to jesus as a civilization, we can have
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Great political solutions, but it ultimately leads to ruin.
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Without revival. hey, tomorrow night,
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Great breakdown on the latest with iran.
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They're down, but not out with the top expert.
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You're not going to want to miss that.
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Until then, god bless you.
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We'll see you soon.
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