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October 15, 2025 | 25:5

Join host Erick Stakelbeck as he delves into the mysterious circumstances surrounding the assassination of the beloved freedom fighter, Charlie Kirk. Unravel the web of deceit and uncover the truth behind the tragic event that propelled 340 million Americans into a stirring revival. As Stakelbeck navigates the landscape of political intrigue, societal upheaval, and spiritual awakening, he sheds light on the battle for freedom and the forces seeking to extinguish it. Through interviews with top historians and government officials, witness the unfolding drama of power, faith, and unity in a world teetering on the edge of chaos.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: What’s Next for Trump’s Agenda? | Stakelbeck Tonight | October 15, 2025

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight, i'm erick stakelbeck
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And greater love has no one than this
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To lay down one's life for one's friends.
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Those words from jesus, from the gospel of john
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Certainly apply to charlie kirk.
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He laid down his life
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So that 340 million of his fellow americans
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Could hear the truth about freedom, about our country,
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And most importantly, about the gospel.
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And for that last point, especially, charlie was
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Martyred, assassinated by a left wing radical
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Who was steeped in pro transgender ideology.
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But what the devil meant for evil god is using for good.
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In the wake of charlie's death, we've seen revival
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Stirring in this land, and not only among young people.
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At charlie's memorial service last month, some of our very top
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Government officials
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Shared the gospel in front of a global audience of millions.
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And then yesterday at the white house, on
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What would have been charlie's 32nd birthday, president trump
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Awarded him posthumously with the presidential
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Medal of freedom, the first ever to be emblazoned with a cross.
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Charlie's widow,
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Erika, was there to accept the medal on his behalf.
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And it was a moving scene. watch.
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And my message is simple.
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I want you to be the embodiment
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Of this medal.
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I do.
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I want you to free yourself from fear.
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I want you to stand courageously in the truth.
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Listen for the still, small
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Voice of god.
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And remember that
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While freedom is inherited in this country,
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Each of us must be intentional stewards
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Every single day.
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God began a mighty work through my husband,
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And i intend to see it through.
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Charlie was absolutely committed to the cause of freedom.
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On the day he was killed,
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He was wearing a shirt bearing that very word.
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And he loved seeing the return of faith, family and freedom
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Under president trump.
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And yet, in the months before he died, charlie
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Spent a good deal of time
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Warning about the fall of the rest of the west.
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He looked to europe
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And saw very troubling signals, and for good reason.
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We've been showing you here on the show how so-called leaders
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In western europe are committing cultural suicide,
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Allowing their countries
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To descend into woke madness while waves of muslim
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Immigrants are welcomed in, great britain is by far
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The worst case on the uk's official government website.
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There is a section listing
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What it calls extreme right wing terrorist ideologies.
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Among them is cultural nationalism
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Or the belief that
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Western culture is under threat from mass migration
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And a lack of integration
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By certain ethnic and cultural groups.
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Folks, judging by those standards,
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I am apparently a terrorist
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In the eyes of the british government.
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So was charlie kirk.
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And if you're watching this show,
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There's a good chance that you are, too.
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This is absolute insanity.
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There are legitimate islamic radicals with ties to terror.
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Walking the streets of london as free men right now.
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And there's a good chance
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They're receiving government benefits to boot.
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I know,
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Because in previous years i've interviewed some of them.
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You had a guy like tommy robinson
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Who speaks out against islamic jihad, is now facing
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Bogus terrorism charges in a british court.
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You can't make this stuff up.
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We truly live in times
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That the prophet isaiah described very accurately,
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Where good is called evil and evil is called good.
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Now tommy is visiting israel right now at the invite
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Of the israeli government.
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But when he returns next week, he's facing jail time
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Because he refuses to bow to the totalitarian forces
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That are destroying his country.
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It's fitting
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That he's in israel, because it is the first line
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Of defense for judeo christian western civilization.
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Up next, we're joined by victor davis hanson,
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One of the world's top historians,
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To break down the future of the west or what's left of it.
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And it all starts now.
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Well, he just did what the
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So-called experts said was impossible.
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President trump has brokered a cease fire between israel
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And hamas, from tehran to tel aviv, cairo to kosovo.
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His diplomatic model features relationship building,
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Leverage and peace through strength.
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And no one breaks it down better than victor davis hanson.
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He's a bestselling author, a senior fellow
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At the hoover institution
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And host of the victor davis hanson show.
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You can also catch him on the daily signal.
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Victor, always great to see you.
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Hey, can you two and you've talked about this on your show.
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Can you break down a bit how relationships play a role
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In president trump's diplomatic approach,
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Including in this israel-hamas deal?
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It seems he'll talk to anyone and everyone, and he always
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Has leverage, victor, in every talk that he enters into.
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He does.
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And it's also the contrary that when if you don't have
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Those relationships, you don't make progress.
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So he was on good terms with all the major players,
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The netanyahu government, the moderate error regimes,
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The turkish government, the egyptian government.
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And, unlike joe biden,
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To be frank, joe biden had called the saudis pariahs.
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Yeah.
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And earlier, barack obama had leaked and used
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A very raw battery term of the netanyahu government that time.
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Chicken blank. i won't repeat it on the air.
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But the point was, he had alienated,
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The biden obama administrations
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And alienated a lot of people that were
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And they had alienated the israeli conservative government.
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And then in addition to that, very quickly, donald trump,
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He did not really have much confidence
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In the e.u., the europeans or the and the russians.
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He got basically just ignored them.
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They lost the syrian client. they were out of it.
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The chinese were out of it, the united nations.
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He did not have confidence.
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So this was the first time
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That the americans had dealt directly on their terms with
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The two parties that matter, the arabs and the israelis.
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And he was able also to convince them that prosperity brought
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Prosperity and security were a result of peace.
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And it wasn't just diplomats.
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So i think it was also important that the people who negotiated
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For a change were not professional diplomats.
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We had three builders,
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Weiskopf and,
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Jared kushner and donald trump.
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They came from a very different,
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Milieu, and they had a different way
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Of conducting business and deals than did.
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And anthony blinken or,
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Hillary clinton in the past or john kerry.
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So we just
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I think it was just a complete antithesis of what we'd seen
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In the middle east.
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And everybody therefore made
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The wrong conclusion that was going to fail.
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There were it was very intricate.
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When the israelis attacked the guitars on the grounds
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That they were double dealing the al jazeera,
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Propaganda came out of there.
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And also the hamas hierarchy.
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What's left of it was there.
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Trump saw that as an opportunity.
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And he said, you have to apologize to them.
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And we're and then you kind of co-opted them.
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And they came right back
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To trump and said, we want to be protected.
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They were.
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So i guess the term would be terrified
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After that strike, that he offered them a protectorate.
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And one of the conditions, apparently, is that they
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No longer host hamas.
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And the same was true turkey.
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So everything was a quid pro quo
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In which he used enhanced american prestige.
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And he did not, of course, oversee
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The pull out from afghanistan.
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That was humiliating.
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Or you know, tell putin, don't when it didn't mean anything.
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Or as obama said to the syrians, if i see
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This is a red line, and then he just ignored that.
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So there was a sense that when donald trump said something,
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You better pay attention to it, whether it was bombing
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The iranian facilities or the elimination of soleimani
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In the first term, or baghdadi or the wagner group in russia.
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So he had a reputation for being.
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I guess it would be
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Unpredictable but predictable and fulfilling his threats.
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Yeah.
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And outside the box, one of the things i love about
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Him, victor, is he is an outside the box thinker.
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And we're seeing the art of the deal on the world stage.
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Now, about a minute before the break,
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Then you'll be right back with us.
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Can you talk about the role economic
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Pressure plays here, victor?
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Tariffs and president trump kind of nudging these nations
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To get on board with his initiatives.
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Yeah, he's basically saying that entry or exit,
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You're not an access entry or no access
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Into the huge, lucrative american,
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Domestic consumer market will depend on your attitude
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Toward the united states and its interests.
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So if you want to help us get a lasting peace, it's
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Not only in your interests, but it is in your economic
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Interests as a trader of the united states
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That will be given favorable terms
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Under the tariffs agreement.
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And that was a huge incentive for a lot of these.
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And then the other thing very quickly is
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They understood that these new technologies,
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Cryptocurrency, genetic engineering,
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Artificial intelligence, robotics,
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They're not just going to be chinese anymore.
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It's looks to the silicon valley people.
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There's been a revolution in the united states,
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And they are emerging as the preeminent,
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Innovators of these new technologies.
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And i think a lot of people in the,
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The gulf to take that example, will want to cut deals
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With the americans and get access
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To these new emerging fields.
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And that was new.
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And trump used that as well as an incentive.
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Yeah, in many ways it's foreign policy through commerce.
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It's amazing to see more with the one and only
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Victor davis hanson after the break.
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What about the government shutdown?
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What's happening there?
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How does it affect
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You more with victor davis hanson after the break.
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Stick around.
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Stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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The u.s.
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Government has now been shut down for 15 days.
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And left wing democrats seem to be digging in their heels.
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So what comes next?
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We're talking to the one and only victor davis hanson.
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He's host of the victor davis hanson show,
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And you can also catch him on the daily signal.
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And be sure to follow him on x.
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Victor, do you get the sense that democrats
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Have badly overplayed their hand here with this shutdown?
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Their party is already massively unpopular
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With the american people.
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This doesn't seem to help their cause very much.
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Yeah, i think they would say that privately.
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I think the contrast this week was really too bad for them,
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Because you had trump
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Striding like a colossus over the middle east
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With the europeans trying to fly to egypt to meet him,
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Everybody wanting to to to share in his achievement.
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And then you had these
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Kind of petulant democrats that couldn't say a nice word
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About this
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Landmark peace deal, ceasefire deal in the middle east.
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And then they were incoherent.
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They never really communicated to the american people
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What why they shut down the government, given
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Their long record of opposing anybody who did that,
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And they said they would never do that.
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And republicans did it in the past,
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And that was a mistake.
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Then they got into the illegal alien.
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And everybody i think knows who goes to an emergency
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Emergency room.
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To take one example, in the american southwest,
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Where i live in southern central california,
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That illegal aliens are getting health care and free
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Health care.
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And in california,
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The government just gave another $5 billion to bail
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Out medi-cal, our version of medicare medicaid.
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And yet they kept denying that.
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And a lot of millions of people said, that's not true.
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I can see it with my own eyes.
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So they weren't candid.
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They weren't transparent.
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And i think now they were trying to find a way to get out of it
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By ginning up the ice, protest, creating chaos
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So that people, probably the american people,
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Sort of get into a fetal position,
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Put their hands over their ears and say, make it all go away.
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And it's i don't know whose fault it is, but i just want us.
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That's their goal.
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That just creates so much chaos
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With the demonstrations, the shutdown.
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But somehow some of it will be collateral damage on trump
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And especially the economy that's not been spoken.
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But you shut down the government for a month or two.
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It will have a sharp reduction in gdp.
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And i think they want that.
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Yeah.
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And members of the military aren't getting paid.
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It's absolute madness.
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And yet president trump continues to plow ahead.
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Victor taking it back to the international stage okay.
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The middle east peace breaking out suddenly, at least for now.
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Does he shift his attention now more to dealing
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With russia, ukraine
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And perhaps china and that whole threat
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The semiconductor, the chip threat there?
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Can he maybe refocus and shift
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A bit and re channels energies to dealing with those threats?
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Well, i think he could also say that one of the reasons
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He was successful in the middle east
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Is he had negotiated ethiopia and egypt
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Or thailand and cambodia or pakistan, india, kosovo,
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Serbia, etc., etc.
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And so he
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And that way of thinking, he was going to bring
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That momentum
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And he did to the middle east and people in the middle east
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Said, well, this guy's different.
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He's had this success elsewhere.
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And now i think he's going to use this success,
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To apply it to the ukraine, which is going to be
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A little bit more, tricky because you're dealing with
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A former superpower with 7000 nuclear weapons.
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It's not just,
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You know, thousands of people, but it's been a million
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And a half, probably dead,
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Wounded or missing right on the doorstep of europe.
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And that's going to be more challenging.
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And i think everybody knows what the settlement will be.
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Ukraine will not be in nato, but it will be armed to the teeth.
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It will have to give up
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For good crimea and don't bask, but it will try to hold on
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To land pretty much where it is now.
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We can have a ceasefire in place,
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And then we'll have to have, security guarantees.
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And then putin will say,
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I can't take that back
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To the oligarchs or my military, because i've got a million
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Russians dead, wounded and killed.
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And they're going to ask me, what did i get?
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And that's not enough.
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So that's going to have to be worked out.
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But the battlefield
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Will adjudicate that whoever is making the greater progress.
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And that's going to be tricky, because if we give them to
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Tomahawk missiles, which are justified
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Strategically to
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To help the ukraine, we get we capture the momentum.
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You're still using a proxy to arm to attack
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The homeland of a nuclear rival, something we never did
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In the cold war.
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So there's a it's a lot more tricky even than the middle east
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And china. of course.
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That's not so much a military question
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Outside of taiwan, but it's who's going to blink first
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As far as the tariffs and trade,
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Everybody knows what china is doing.
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Everybody knows it's a mercantile country,
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That it's exploited.
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It's the world trading system.
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But nobody knows
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What level of damage they would have to incur
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Themselves to set china back on a responsible
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Sit world citizenship.
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And everybody says, i can't do it. it'd be too costly.
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So they let china get away with what?
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It's what it's done.
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It's a very precarious time, no doubt.
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Thank god we have president trump peace
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Through strength in office.
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And thank god we have victor
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Davis hanson here to break it down for us.
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Be sure to follow folks on x across social media.
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Pick up all of victor's great books,
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Including the end of everything, his latest, a great read.
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Victor. as always, my friend. god bless.
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Thanks again.
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We'll see you again soon.
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And up next, the jerusalem prayer breakfast
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Is coming to mar-a-lago this january with
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Revival and jewish christian unity front and center.
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Find out why this moment and this movement matters.
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Next.
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Next.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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It's a mighty movement of god that brings together
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Christian and jewish leaders, pastors, government officials
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And believers from around the world
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To stand with israel and pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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Albert wexler is global director of this movement,
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The jerusalem prayer breakfast, and he joins us now.
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Albert, always great to see you, my friend.
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Hey, for people who may not be aware,
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What is the jerusalem prayer breakfast first of all?
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Secondly, a big one coming up at mar-a-lago, president trump's
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Private residence, in january 2026.
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Tell us more about it.
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Well, jerusalem prayer breakfast is a initiative
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That started from the israeli parliament, the knesset,
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And it started like, in a very unusual way
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Because, robert, a lot of my good friend, host,
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Basically
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Became responsible for all the relations
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Between the state of israel and the christian communities.
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And he asked for my help
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To build another alliance of the friends of israel.
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And, i said,
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How can i help you?
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He said, well, we need something that will,
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You know, bring about a new alliance.
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And i said, why
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This so many great organizations,
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Christian embassy,
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Bridges for peace, christian friends for israel,
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They all are doing such a great work.
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He said, no, no,
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We need something that comes out of the knesset,
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Something that is ours.
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And i heard myself
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Tell him, robert, then we need a prayer breakfast.
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And his response was, albert, you are out of your mind.
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This is the jewish state.
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You don't expect us to pray to jesus.
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I said, robert, we can find something
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That the jews and christians actually can agree about.
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Said forget it.
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Think of something i said, robert,
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We can pray for the peace of jerusalem.
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And then
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He went to speak with reuben rivlin, the president, and,
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He came back shining and said, look, president rivlin loves it.
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He will host us in his residence.
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He will be supportive of it as long as he's in the office.
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So are you going to help me or not?
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And then i realized that i,
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Have to start working, and, you've been with us several
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Times.
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You've seen how this, simple vision has really,
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Brought us all around the world and,
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Bringing the christians and jews together and,
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Igniting the spark of, prayer for the peace of jerusalem.
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It's amazing. albert. god's hand is on it.
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Now, you held
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One that i attended last january at mar-a-lago, florida,
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President trump's private residence.
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You're doing it again this january 2026.
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January 12th and 13th y
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Mar-a-lago for a jerusalem prayer breakfast.
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Well, first of all,
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The bible tells us clearly to pray for those in power
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And to lift them up, so that we would have peaceful
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And, godly lives in all,
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You know, honesty.
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And this is this is what we have, understood
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As our calling that we should pray,
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For the government's pray for those,
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In, in power in israel, in the united states of america.
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And president trump has been the best friend israel has had,
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Since its, establishment of the modern state of israel.
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We prayed that, the president trump would not,
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Come up with a plan to divide
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Israel like they did during the first,
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Time first administration.
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And, and, it was it was a big struggle
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And big fight because we talk about
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God's covenant, we talk about god's promises and warnings,
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And because god's word
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Is very clear, he will judge the nations over
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How they've treated the jewish people.
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And he will judge the nation over one very simple
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Principle do not divide my land,
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Because israel is not belonging to anyone except god.
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Nobody has the right to divide this land.
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And there are dire consequences of,
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Judgments when nations try to divide.
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I mean, look at france. yeah.
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President macron just
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Was pushing for the two state solution and,
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Recognizing palestine and he has no state solution.
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Such a great point.
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The genesis 12 three principle really plays out.
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I will bless those who bless you,
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Curse those who curse you, playing out now in real time.
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Hey, you're doing events, as we said around the world.
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You've been here in the states alone, pennsylvania,
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Indianapolis over the past few months,
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But the mar-a-lago one is a big one.
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Obviously.
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Tell people if they want to attend, they can check it out.
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Jerusalem prayer breakfast.org number one.
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Secondly, if they can attend in person,
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They can stream it as well. right?
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We will definitely, broadcast
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The, the the whole event and people can watch it online.
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But those who want to join us, you could visit our website.
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W w w jerusalem
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Prayer breakfast.org and click on contact us
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And write that you want to hear about
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Jerusalem prayer breakfast in model logo
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And that you would like to be part of it.
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Love it albert i will be there my friend of course. can't wait.
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It's going to be an incredible event for such a time as this.
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Albert. great job.
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God bless.
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We'll see you again soon folks.
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Again, if you are interested in attending the jerusalem
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Prayer breakfast at mar-a-lago, florida,
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Check out jerusalem prayer breakfast.org.
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Coming up, my final thoughts stick around.
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Coming up, my final thoughts stick around.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks, as we wrap up
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Here, we've been talking tonight about america and israel
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Being the first lines of defense.
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The lone remaining beacons of sanity,
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It seems, for judeo christian western civilization.
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You look at europe, a place where the gospel
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Used to go out from.
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And i think of the book of zechariah
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Chapter one, verse three, therefore tell the people,
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This is what the lord almighty says, return to me, declares
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The lord almighty,
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And i will return to you, says the lord almighty.
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It's up to europe.
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The hours short.
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Return to the lord.
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Hey, tomorrow night, officer brandon tatum is here.
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Pastor jackson lahmeyer. it's going to be a great show.
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Until then, god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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