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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: What's Next for Iran? | Stakelbeck Tonight | June 4, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck.
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And if you want an idea of
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Just how fundamentally unserious the left is today,
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Consider the following exchange from capitol hill on wednesday.
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Secretary of state marco rubio testified before the house
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Foreign affairs committee.
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And with all that's going on
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Right now in foreign affairs, we're talking a war in iran,
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A war in russia, hezbollah in lebanon, china, and taiwan,
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Mass islamic migration to europe with all of that.
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You would expect
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Some very thoughtful and, yes, serious questions
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For the secretary of state, questions
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That would be informative for not only congress,
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But for the american people as we face multiple global crises.
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Unfortunately, someone forgot to share that memo
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With california democrat sarah jacobs.
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Forget iran.
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Her main point of interest was a pair of shoes that
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President trump gave secretary rubio recently as a gift.
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Folks, i'm not joking. watch.
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President trump is losing this reckless war of choice.
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And just like you couldn't admit that the shoes
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The president bought you were too big.
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You clearly don't know what winning means
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And not because the facts are unclear to you.
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It's because telling your truth,
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The truth would cost you your job.
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And the american people are entitled
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To a secretary of state who tells them the truth.
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Even when the president doesn't want to hear it.
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And my constituents, our service members, deserve better.
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Mr. chairman, i yield back.
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If it's me.
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Yes, she's talking about what she's talking about.
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I don't know.
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Representative birch, you're recognized.
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Thank you, mr. chairman. if you'd like to answer any of.
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I don't know about the.
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I mean, he gave me some florsheim shoes.
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They're actually pretty good. they fit fine, i don't know.
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I don't know what she's talking about.
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And maybe that's what she's referring to.
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Your shoes look very nice today, mr.
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Secretary. how can you see him? they're way down here.
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We're talking about shoes.
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Are you guys kidding me?
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I mean, is this the foreign affairs committee, or.
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Is this like a circus?
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What is this?
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Folks, you have to feel for secretary rubio.
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He's one of the busiest people
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In the world,
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And he's taking time out of his schedule, only to be subjected
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To snide remarks about his shoes from a leftist congresswoman.
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She clearly wanted to create a viral social media
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Moment of her dunking on rubio for tiktok.
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Instead, the opposite happened.
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And as he usually does,
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The secretary flipped the script.
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But serious questions do remain about the iran war
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And what comes next in the middle east.
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Up next,
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We head to jerusalem to get the on the ground perspective
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From our tbn israel team mati shoshani and yair pinto.
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And it all starts now.
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Is the time for talk over
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As president trump continues to try to make a deal
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With iran's regime.
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And in lebanon, iran and hezbollah continue
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To launch attacks.
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So is it time for the u.s.
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And israel to restart military action
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Against iran's regime and finish the job?
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Joining us now from jerusalem to break it down, our yair
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Pinto and mati shoshani,
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Co-host of boots on the ground, seen right here on tbn
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Every thursday night at 9:30 p.m.
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Eastern time. guys, great to see you as always.
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Thanks for joining us from jerusalem.
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Mati, i want to start with you.
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Look, president trump said yesterday
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That essentially he's willing to absorb
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Some of these smaller attacks from iran,
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What he called smaller attacks, basically
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Targeting kuwait and bahrain with missiles and drones.
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He's willing to absorb that, it seems, in hopes
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Of still forging a deal with iran's regime.
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But mati, is any
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Sort of credible deal with iran even possible at this point?
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And does the regime even want a deal?
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Well, first of all, erick, it's good to be with you, as always.
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And to what trump said
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Yesterday, i find it to be very humorous.
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He was asked, what does a cease fire look like with iran?
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And said, well, in that neighborhood.
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He said it was a decrease or reduction in the intensity.
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And that's really what it is.
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It's it's
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A extended war of attrition more than it is a real cease fire.
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And i think at this point,
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It should be clear to many people
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There's a reality in which there is no agreement.
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Not today, not tomorrow, not in the foreseeable months.
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Why the gaps between the united states and israel are enormous.
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And, sorry, the united states and iran are enormous.
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The unity between israel and america has enormous,
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But it's huge on every big topic.
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There's not an agreement and nothing near it.
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You know, iran says we want the nuclear,
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We want the ballistic, we want the proxies,
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We want to sell oil to whoever we want,
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And we want to remain the mega terrorist of the region.
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The united states has take all of that and reverse it.
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And there really is no middle ground when those are the
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The starting terms to the negotiation.
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Yeah.
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And more than that,
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There's a big question
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That i think is looming over everyone's head,
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Which is who in iran is actually able
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Of making an agreement or able reaching an agreement.
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They're weak regime.
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They say no to everything,
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Which is a sign of weakness, not of strength.
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One person comes out, president positions, says something.
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Someone in the irgc who is identified as the members
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Of the so-and-so says, no, no, you have no authority to speak.
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Yeah. and he says, well, i've had enough of this.
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And i say, no, no, masood, don't quit.
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So it's this really bizarre situation.
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It's really bizarre situation
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Where it seems like no one's really able
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To reach an agreement anymore.
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And trump has said.
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He said in the past, we can live without an agreement.
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And that seems to be what we're we're living with right now.
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Yeah, trump is waiting them out, essentially.
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But i wonder, yeah,
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If the iranian regime is waiting trump out, in essence saying,
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Look, we'll string him along until 2028, early 2029.
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Once trump leaves office, we can go back to our old ways
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Developing nuclear weapons,
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Building up the ballistic missiles, etc.
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On that front.
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Yeah, yeah.
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Look, iran, as i mentioned a minute ago,
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They've been attacking kuwait,
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Bahrain, the uae on a consistent basis.
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What's iran's game here?
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Why would it attack?
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A lot of people ask
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Why is it attacking its fellow muslim nations in the region?
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Well, i would start with it's a spiritual war.
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And for them in their ideology, they need to cause
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As much damage as much destruction for kind of
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The world to come to the latter days in their beliefs.
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So you need
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To start with this understanding that it's a spiritual war.
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And according to their radical shiite doctrine,
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They need to just open
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The gates of hell
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Towards everybody around them,
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Especially islam and the united states,
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In order for their like, redemption to come.
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Yeah.
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And for them to be new with their faith.
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So yeah. yeah. you're right.
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I don't mean to interrupt you, my friend,
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But the mahdi, they call him,
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Were the 12th imam, this islamic messiah figure.
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They believe
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They can usher in his return in a time of great global chaos.
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You make a great point. this is key to their ideology.
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Why they're doing what they do.
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Yeah.
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So if you come from this understanding,
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Then they don't care about peace.
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They think this is an opportunity
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To actually fulfill their prophecies.
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And but if you look at it from a more pragmatic
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Point of view, yes, you are right.
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They have a longer life line.
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They can withstand because they don't care
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If their population is suffering or not.
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They can withstand an extra two years.
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The country will suffer severely.
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But those in power,
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Which is the revolutionary guards and not even the
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The parliament of iran, they can hold on for longer.
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And they can outlive donald trump
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In terms of his political career in the white house.
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And also, we can see that the gulf states, the oil prices,
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They're all pressuring the united states and the west.
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So that's one angle that they can play.
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But on the other hand, they're losing their leadership.
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They're afraid of their own population.
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The economic pressure that the us is enforcing against
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Them is already having its effects on the ground.
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So it's kind of a double game and everybody's
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Waiting to see which side will fold first.
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But if you talk about negotiations,
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Know where it's moving forward, because the topics of the us,
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Get rid of your nuclear bombs.
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And then the iranians are saying,
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No way we get rid of the nuclear bombs.
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Stop funding terrorism in the middle east.
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No way.
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We are stopping to fund the terrorists in the middle east.
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And it seems like
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Nobody's talking even in the same language.
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So i think that a direct confrontation is kind of
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The only option, at least against the leaders.
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And to find the uranium.
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Agreed. yeah, yeah.
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Great point.
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And look, they also want control of the strait of hormuz.
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And oh yeah,
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They want to charge
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Ships a toll to pass through the strait of hormuz.
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It seems like the military option, as you said.
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Yeah, is inevitable here.
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More with matty in the air after the break, folks.
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What about lebanon right now?
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A truce, a cease fire there with hezbollah, israel?
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Is it possible?
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And are trump and bibi at odds?
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More with our expert israel panel after the break.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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We're talking our good friend yair pinto and mati shoshani,
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Co-host of boots on the ground, seen
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Right here on tbn every thursday night at 9:30 p.m.
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Eastern time.
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Gentlemen, president trump and prime minister netanyahu
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Apparently had a very maybe heated somewhat say,
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Phone call earlier this week over lebanon in particular.
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Now, i want to talk about lebanon in a minute.
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But mati be and trump look
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They have a great relationship certainly.
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But of course all allies and friends
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Had disagreements from time to time.
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The mainstream media has been hyping this up
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Like there's some big clash between them.
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Do you put much stock in that?
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It seems at the end of the day,
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Trump and bibi are essentially on the same page.
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Is this just part of a relationship
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In a very tumultuous time?
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I mean, i think there's several ways to look at this.
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One is, is that it's just a great relationship.
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And, you know, things got worked up and got excited.
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And and then trump and netanyahu exchanged blows.
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But even angrier and,
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You know, said some words that you don't say
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On the news usually.
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And that's one way to look at it.
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Another way to look at it is it's slightly
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More complex and higher up,
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Which is that on the lebanese topic, israel
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And the united states are not exactly aligned.
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Israel can't live with hezbollah and or fences up north.
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And that's sort of where israel and the us
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Differ on this topic.
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Iran is a distant threat. it's not immediate.
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It's not imminent, at least not today.
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But lebanon is immediate.
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It's daily.
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It's omnipresent unless it's dealt with.
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And in israel, we have a very, very clear understanding
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Right now that there's a clock that's running out of time
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When it comes to dealing with this.
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We're nowhere near a situation where a diplomatic solution
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Will resolve.
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Hezbollah,
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The lebanese government and army are still far too weak,
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And hezbollah is still far too strong
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For us to just withdraw and say, we'll be good.
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We won't be good.
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We can't allow hezbollah terrorists back on our fences.
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We have a sense of urgency right now.
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The idf has up the war tempo against hezbollah.
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Hezbollah itself feels the same pressure
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Of everyone wanting to wrap all of this up and says, no,
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I want to get some, you know,
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Some victory images over here and come after israel, get
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Whatever targets i can get, whatever images, whatever kills.
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Sadly, they can't have both idf and israeli civilians,
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And trump and atender are not exactly
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On the same page on that topic
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In the sense of the long term agenda.
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One last thing is, is i and i want to say this.
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If people have doubts at home when they watch these things
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From an israeli perspective, from here
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Where i'm standing in jerusalem, president trump has been
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The best friend israel has ever had in modern times.
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And that's not an exaggeration.
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That man led an army, a fight alongside israel,
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Not once, but twice in 12 months against the biggest villain
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Of our lifetime.
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Yeah, i mean, that's not no small feat.
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Not very well said.
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And that's why i keep saying, look, president trump,
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Based on his first term
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And so far his second term, how he's handled iran,
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He certainly deserves the benefit of the doubt.
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I think here as this iran situation unfolds.
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Yeah, yeah.
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You've spent
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A lot of time in lebanon as a member of the israel
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Defense forces reserve as matthias as well.
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But your impressions of hezbollah right
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Now, look, they seem to defanged largely.
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Yeah, for a good period of time.
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And now, on daily basis, rockets and drones
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Flying out of lebanon once again,
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Even though
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Yesterday this deal was apparently negotiated in dc,
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Where the lebanese government is going to help push
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Hezbollah back beyond the litani river.
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But who knows when that will be?
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And in the meantime, hezbollah's firing away.
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Yeah. yeah, definitely. erick.
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So that's just breaking it down to what's happening
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On the ground.
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The idf is already controlling deep into south lebanon.
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The idf is destroying terrorist infrastructure
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That is endangering the israeli civilians
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On the golan heights and the northern part of israel.
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The idf is building new security zones
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On the mountain ridge of the before, which is like
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This high mountain that can see deep into lebanon.
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So on the ground, the idf,
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From a military perspective, is winning, no question asked.
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But hezbollah has two aces up its sleeve.
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One of them is the suicide drones, and specifically
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The optic cable controlled suicide drone.
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That is a very, very hard to detect
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And very disruptive weapon that the idf did
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Not find a way to deal with so far.
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So when israel has signed an agreement
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Or ceasefire in lebanon with lebanon,
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Hezbollah is not part of this agreement.
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And immediately
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Throughout that night, they opened fire
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Towards the northern communities of israel.
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So this is something that israel needs to deal with.
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And the hard part is that
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Trump and iran are using the negotiations
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Or the so-called negotiations to block israel
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From carrying out strategic attacks
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Against the leadership of hezbollah
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In beirut, the capital of lebanon.
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So, again,
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Israel is fighting with one head tied behind our backs.
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Yeah,
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But the good thing is that we are still winning this fight.
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We will find the technological way
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To get rid of these suicide drone threat.
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Yeah. and one last thing.
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Like his body is not just fighting against israel.
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Hezbollah launched a suicide drone, multiple of them
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Against a united nation post in south lebanon.
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Murdering one united nation peacekeeping personnel
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And wounding two others.
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So this is not just a terrorist
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Organization that is dealing solely with israel.
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They're attacking
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The lebanese government, threatening the prime minister
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And the leadership of lebanon.
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They're carrying out the attacks
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Against the united nations in lebanon,
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And they're attacking israeli soldiers and civilians.
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Yeah. no doubt. yeah.
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Great breakdown as always, guys.
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Look, folks, boots on the ground, seen
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Right here on tbn every thursday night at 9:30 p.m.
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Eastern time.
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If you want to watch my entire interview with the iron moth,
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There's more.
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Check out my youtube channel tonight it will be up.
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Watchmen, that's me and watchmen.
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Tv.com.
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Coming up next,
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Franklin graham is here with a very important update
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That's next. stick around.
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That's next. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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A deadly ebola outbreak is spreading across
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Parts of central and eastern africa,
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With more than 1000 reported cases,
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And there are growing fears that the
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Virus could continue to expand if it's not contained.
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Samaritan's purse is already on the ground
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In the democratic republic of congo, building
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Ebola treatment centers,
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Airlifting critical medical supplies, training health
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Care workers,
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And reaching thousands with life saving prevention measures.
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Leading that effort is our good friend, reverend
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Franklin graham, president of samaritan's purse.
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He joins us now with the latest on the crisis.
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Reverend graham. always great to see you.
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Give us a sense right now
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Of what your teams on the ground are seeing in africa.
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How bad is this outbreak, and are you concerned
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About the ability to contain this virus?
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Oh, it's a it's it's very serious no question about it.
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And contain it as a, as a, as a focus of the governments,
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Drc, uganda and other african countries,
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How to how do we how do we contain it?
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But you got to just start fighting it and it's,
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And that's what we're doing.
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We've got, two,
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Treatment centers that were setting up
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One in place called bosnia.
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This is kind of the capital of the, of this region of,
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Drc is the very eastern part of the country.
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And so
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They've got a treatment center
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That we're the hope to have open early next week.
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And also there's a missionary hospital,
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About, 30, 40 miles away, a place called nyon kundi,
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And we're setting up a treatment center there, as well.
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And doctor stafford, had a, medical doctor
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Who with an organization called search.
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He got a boatload and,
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They were able to get him to europe where he's,
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He's been treated, and he's,
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He should be released soon, thank god.
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And, franklin,
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Your team of samaritan's
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Purse has already airlifted tens of thousands of
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Pounds of medical supplies into the region.
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Folks, you see the information there
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On your screen, by the way.
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You can help you see the website.
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You see the phone number, you can help samaritan's purse
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Make a difference right now in africa amid this outbreak.
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What's the need right now, reverend graham,
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What exactly do you need?
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What would help your cause on the ground there in africa?
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Well, it's, prayer for you.
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I mean, you're you're
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Dealing in a very difficult part of the world.
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People are afraid.
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People are scared.
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Just pray for our teams.
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Will be able to.
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The number one, if you want to contain this and and see ebola,
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Start backing up.
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It says education.
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You have to educate people how you get a body.
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You get it to the, transfer of body fluids.
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What happens is that a person dies of ebola.
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The family wants the body so that they can bury the body.
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And. and in africa, you take the body into the home.
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The family will wash the body and prepare the body for
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For burial.
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And that's where you get infected.
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You have to, put the body in a protective, bag,
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And then you have to have
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A special team go out and and bury the body,
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And, it's,
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If you don't tell the family
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Ahead of time that they get angry and upset and,
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Because they weren't told,
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And treating ebola, you can't have any exposed skin.
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Now, you say, you know, people
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Being sprayed down with the, like, a chlorine type of,
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Bleach
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Solution that kills the virus.
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But, you can't have any exposed skin, so a person
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Working in one of these, treatment centers,
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They they're in this heavy,
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Gloves and cloaks and, masks that are on the hood.
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All this is duct tape.
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So nothing can get in the air into the to the skin.
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Yeah. and you can only work for about 20 minutes like that.
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30 minutes in that hot african, temperature.
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Yeah.
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Then the worker will will will faint.
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So you have to get them out and rotate them every 30 minutes.
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It's it's, it's tough. it's very, very hard.
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So we need prayer.
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Pray for our teams. pray for our staff.
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We've got about, 42 people on the ground right now.
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Next week that will double.
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We'll have close to 85.
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And then we have several hundred.
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I think we got about 300 local workers working with us.
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And most of those 300, right now committed to going to churches
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In the region, trying to educate the pastors
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And giving the pastors information
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So that they can share with their congregants.
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The dangers of modeling how the how the disease is,
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Is transferred.
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And it's a battle and everybody's communicating
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And making sure people understand,
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That they're at risk and how they need to protect themselves.
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And of course, we have protective,
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Gear, this,
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Personal protective equipment, the ppe we we get that
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And we've got,
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Thousands of those, and we're distributing
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Those to make sure that all the health care
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Workers have those that are protected.
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So it's not just our people, but it's the world
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Health organization we're helping.
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We're helping the local,
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Government
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Officials of the drc, protect themselves.
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So it's, it's a lot of work, but, there's only
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A couple of organizations that do this.
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Samaritan's purse is one of them.
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The other is the doctors without borders.
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They're secular.
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Of course ours is. we're evangelical.
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We want everyone that we help and everyone that we work with.
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We want them to know that jesus christ is our hope.
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And we encourage people, put their faith and trust in him.
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We we present the gospel. we preach the gospel.
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We lift up the name of christ
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And every opportunity that we have because he is the hope.
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There is no other hope for this world outside of christ.
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So that's, that's what we do, reverend graham.
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So well said, as always.
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And, folks,
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You can make a real and tangible difference,
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By the way,
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In the lives of people facing this deadly ebola outbreak
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That reverend graham and i just discussed.
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You see the website
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And phone number there on your screen right now
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Where you can get involved
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And support the lifesaving work of samaritan's purse.
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You can also call 1-800-789-1070 to give and help provide
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Critical medical supplies, treatment
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And care to those in desperate need.
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Up next, my final thoughts. stick around.
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Up next, my final thoughts. stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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So much going on in the world right.
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Look earlier with you here in marty
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We're talking about war in iran lebanon, hezbollah, terrorism
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Then with reverend graham. look.
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And ebola outbreak very serious right now in africa.
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Here's what gives me comfort.
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And it should give you comfort.
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The words of jesus gospel
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John chapter 16, verse 33 jesus said, in this world
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You will have trouble, but take heart.
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I have overcome the world.
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Amen. he's still on the throne.
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So despite all the madness going on, be encouraged.
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God is in control.
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Thanks so much for joining us tonight.
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Until next time. god bless you.
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We'll see you soon.
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