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April 9, 2025 | S25:E409 | 56:19

Matt and Laurie Crouch have a conversation with Mike Huckabee after his confirmation as Ambassador to Israel.

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Praise | Mike Huckabee: Confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Israel | Praise | April 9, 2025

Tonight on praise,
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A special tribute to ambassador mike huckabee.
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Join matt and laurie for an intimate conversation
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And reflections on his new role as u.s.
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Ambassador to israel.
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This is not just about israel.
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It is about us.
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And if we don't stand with them, they stand alone.
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And we'll look back at the seven year run of the huckabee
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Show here on tbn.
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What are we talking about? mike huckabee.
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We're talking about the huckabee show dispelling tbn for.
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Just seven years, three months and one week.
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Enjoy some of the great moments and memorable highlights.
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This is all true.
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I'm not making any of this up.
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While you're wiping your nose on my apron.
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And hear mike huckabee describe
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The moment he received a phone call from president
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Trump that would change his life forever.
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Something told me, answer this call.
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And president trump was on the line.
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And he says, as he likes to get right into it,
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I want you to be the ambassador to israel.
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Breaking news.
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History was made today as the first evangelical
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Protestant u.s.
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Ambassador to israel has been confirmed.
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I'm mike huckabee.
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Do solemnly swear.
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Do solemnly swear
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That i will support and defend
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The constitution of the united states.
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That i will support.
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And defend the constitution of the united states.
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Against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
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Against all enemies.
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Foreign and domestic.
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That i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same.
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And i take this obligation freely.
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And i
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Take this obligation freely without any mental reservation.
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Without any mental.
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Reservation or purpose of evasion or purpose of evasion.
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And that i will will and faithfully.
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And that i will well and faithfully.
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Discharge the duties of the office.
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Discharge the duties of the office
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On which i am about to enter, on which.
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I'm about to enter. so help me god.
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So help me god.
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Mike huckabee is a well-known
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Politician and broadcast personality.
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Well, i grew up as poor as most folks in hope, arkansas.
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I never felt disadvantaged.
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After an early career as a broadcaster
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And running an ad agency.
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Huckabee spent over 11 years as a pastor before embarking
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On a political career.
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After serving three years as lieutenant governor
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And almost 11 years as governor of arkansas,
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He announced his candidacy for president in the 2008
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Gop primary.
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Government in washington
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Is dysfunctional because it's become the roach motel.
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People go in, but they never come out.
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Finishing second to john mccain that year,
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He sought the gop nomination again in 2016.
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Fox news hired huckabee as a political commentator
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And regular contributor to their election coverage.
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Mike has signed on with tbn for a weekly news and talk show
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Combining current issues and guests from the world
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Of politics, entertainment and faith.
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It was a series of events in my early life trusting christ.
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Playing the guitar.
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Getting a job at the radio station
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And student leadership positions
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That would lay the foundation for everything that was to come,
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Including launching a new show on tbn
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And joining a wonderful family at this network,
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As well as those who are watching from home.
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And i have never had so much fun in my life.
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378 episodes
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1134 guests.
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63,519 audience members.
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Wow. what are we talking about? mike huckabee.
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We're talking about the huckabee show this on tbn for.
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Just seven years, three months and one week.
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But who's counting?
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Yeah, you know, when we started the show,
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A lot of
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The people, i think, said, well, maybe it'll go two years,
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Maybe three, three would be the furthest it had gone.
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And seven years later, it still feels like it's a new project.
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It really does, which is a wonderful thing
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That it doesn't feel old, stale,
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Boring, our routine.
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It's been fun every single episode.
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A new chapter is upon us, though, because i think
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It's appropriate for me to do i have to kiss the ring or.
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No, there is no rings. no, none at all.
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No, mr.
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Ambassador, it is an honor to be sitting
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With you here in the mike huckabee theater.
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But mike huckabee's taking his show on the road.
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What's happening?
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Well, not long after the election, i'm sitting there.
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In fact, i just finished a staff call with our show staff and
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Minding my own business
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And my phone rings.
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I never answer a phone if i don't recognize the number.
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And if it doesn't come up with someone who's in my directory.
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But this was a number i didn't recognize.
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No name on it.
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Something told me, answer this call
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And it's out of character.
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I hit the receive button and president trump was on the line.
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And so i'm thinking, okay.
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And he says, as he likes to get right into it,
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I want you to be the ambassador
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To israel.
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My goodness.
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And it. just quickly just.
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Oh, yeah, right. there.
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Just cut to the chase.
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Let's get into it.
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And i was floored because i had not lobbied for it.
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I had not spoken to him about it, not once.
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I honestly thought there was
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Someone else who was going to get the position,
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Which i was delighted with
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Because i was loving what i do and a good life.
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A good life.
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And this really kind of took me completely off balance.
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But the one thing i can say is that
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All the things that he might have said,
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Would you do this, take this cabinet position, this and that,
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I would have said, no, this was the one thing
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That i really couldn't say no to because
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Of my deep involvement with israel going back
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Almost 52 years back to 1973.
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Do you remember the moment
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When you got down on a knee and asked janet to marry you?
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Do you remember that?
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I think she had a gun to my head. oh.
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That was a 45.
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And i said yes.
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Yeah.
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So, you know, at some point
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When i asked laurie to marry me on live television here on tbs,
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The half a second of nanopores, that it took her. yes.
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To, you know, what was like a lifetime to take us to the mall.
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How long did it take you to respond
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To donald trump in regard to.
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Yes, sir.
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I mean, how how did that play play that out for us.
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As i recall and again, i'm
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Trying to recollect my thoughts because i was so stunned.
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But i think i said,
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Are you sure
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That there's not someone else
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That you want to put in this position?
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And he said, no, i want you to do it.
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And i've got my mind made up and you're the guy.
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I want you to do it.
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And i'm sure i paused again and said, well,
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Do you think i'll be confirmed by the senate?
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Oh, yeah, that won't be a problem.
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And i think it just took me a minute to collect my breath.
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Yeah.
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And i really believe it
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Was just so out of the expectation.
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That's what it was.
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And if i had a little bit of a heads up,
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You know, a couple of days notice, you're going
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To get a call. yeah. so i'll be thinking about it.
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Yeah.
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President donald
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Trump naming mike huckabee as ambassador to israel.
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And i'm grateful that president trump
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Has charged me with the extraordinary privilege
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To serve as ambassador to the state of israel.
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But on the other hand, it was a call that was as clear
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A call,
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Not the phone call, but i think it was a call from above.
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And that's how i felt that it was as clear
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A call of ministry, a call of duty.
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And, you know, to be able
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To serve your country and your president in a capacity
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Through a position
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That you really do have passion for.
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Yeah, because of the long standing relationship
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With israel.
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You did on that call say yes.
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I don't know that i had an option.
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I can i can imagine it.
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You know, it's sort of like
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It's a command performance when the president says, yes,
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I want you you remember those posters
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Where uncle sam is pointing, you know, i want you.
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That's kind of how i felt.
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Yeah. and, you know, it's interesting.
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It could have been god's finger
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Pointing at you at the same time, because
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This is a serious as it gets to literally represent
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The united states as ambassador to the nation of israel.
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To god's country.
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And and, by the way, the first evangelical christian appointed.
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I still believe it is the promised land.
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It's holy ground to jews, christians and muslims.
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Since 1948, when israel was finally recognized
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As an independent jewish state,
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It has always been under attack.
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The first nation to officially recognize israel
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Was the united states.
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You've been tbn family for.
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And you know, i looked down on here and
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The huckabee show launched on october 7th in 2017.
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And that's something.
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We're sitting here.
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We've had the anniversary of october 7th,
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Which is a date that will live in jewish and global history,
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One of the worst atrocities, i guess, getting right into it.
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That has to be one of your main objectives on day one
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After confirmation to get those american hostages back.
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The hostages have been there for an absolutely
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An untenable long time.
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I have met with hostage families.
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I have visited with victims families
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From october 7th and people who are there who survived it
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And tell the harrowing tale of being under the threat
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And thinking they were not going to live through the day.
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I was there not long after this happened.
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I've been there twice since it has happened.
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And it is so stunning when you hear the stories
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And realize the massacre that took place that day.
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This was a vicious, cruel, barbarian, horrific crime
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That was made worse
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By the fact that the people who carried it out
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Were proud of it.
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They wore
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Cameras on their bodies so that they could record
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Their slaughter of civilians, including babies and women,
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And the horrific things that were done to
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Those people were done first to inflict the
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Greatest amount of pain and suffering, and secondly,
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The greatest amount of humiliation.
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And it's just not the kind of thing that a human
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Being could conceive of doing to another human being.
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But to be proud of it
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And want people to know what they did is the reason
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That hamas cannot cannot continue in any form.
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They must be eradicated.
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And the israeli government
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Is absolutely right and the world is wrong.
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When they say have a cease fire, alice, calm this down.
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No, there has been no reason to believe that hamas
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Will ever enter into any kind of honorable agreement.
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And if they were willing to, they would have already released
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The hostages long, long, long before.
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There's an american being held right now
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In gaza named eden alexander.
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And knowing every day that he's being tortured,
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His suffering
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And that of his family back in new jersey
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Is one of the central urgencies of my my staff and my team.
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I think that one of your most important missions,
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Should you be confirmed,
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Is getting the release of the hostages
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And aiding to the end of this nightmare.
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And let me say emphatically that it would not be
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One of the most important things that i would consider
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On my duty list.
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If confirmed, it would be the most important thing
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That american citizen from new jersey
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That you care deeply about
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And you've worked so diligently with.
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And i'm deeply grateful
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For the efforts you've made with that family.
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That has to be the first item of business before anything else.
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What are some of the initiatives that mean something to you
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That will mean something to the administration?
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President donald trump's 47
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Agenda.
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What what what do you what do you need to get done over there?
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What needs to happen?
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You know, president trump has been the most effective
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Pro israel president in history.
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None like it.
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He moved the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem
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When the whole world told him not to do it.
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But he did it.
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With the president telling the heads of israel,
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Egypt, jordan, saudi.
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Arabia and the palestinians today
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He will recognize jerusalem.
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As israel's capital.
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An unprecedented move breaking with u.s.
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Policy since israel.
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Was created in.
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1995, congress adopted
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The jerusalem embassy act, urging the federal government
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To relocate the american embassy to jerusalem.
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This act passed congress
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By an overwhelming bipartisan majority.
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Every previous american president
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Has exercised the law's waiver.
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Presidents issued these waivers under the belief
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That delaying the recognition of jerusalem
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Would advance the cause of peace.
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Nevertheless, the record is in.
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After more than two decades of waivers,
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We are no closer to a lasting peace agreement
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Between israel and the palestinians.
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It would be folly to assume that repeating the exact same
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Formula would now produce a different or better result.
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He recognized jerusalem as the eternal
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Indigenous rightful capital of the jewish state.
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That was big.
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He recognized the golan heights as being
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Legitimately the land of israel, and he
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Created a breakthrough historic agreement
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In the abraham accords,
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Which brought partnerships and trade
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Agreements, tourism agreements and peace agreements
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Between israel and muslim countries.
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That would have been unthinkable not very long ago.
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But it has been to the benefit of all of those countries.
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I've said this before.
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I'll say it again you are the greatest friend
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Israel has ever had in the white house.
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There's no reason that
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There's not a build upon the abraham accords.
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They were historic, significant in so many ways,
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And brought the reality that whether it's trade or tourism
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Or the sharing of military intelligence for everyone's
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Safety and security in that region are all benefited.
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Nobody is looking at taking somebody else's territory
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And moving in to
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Their sovereignty at that point, it becomes an opportunity
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To bring a real sense of peace
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For all of the people of the middle east,
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Whether they are of jewish or arab descent.
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So i believe the president is in a credible position
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To build upon
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What he did in his first term, expanding the abraham accords
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To include not only the saudis, but other gulf state nations.
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And one of the big agenda
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Items is to take that which is already
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The foundation of his policies and expand upon them to expand
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The abrahamic courts to include more of the muslim countries.
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And why not?
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Israel is never going to attack saudi arabia.
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They're not going to attack qatar, right.
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They're just not they don't want their land.
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All they want is what god gave them 3500 years ago.
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That's all they want.
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And then to be left alone and to allow their people
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To live with a level of security and safety
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That they
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Had taken away from them during the holocaust
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And almost had taken away from them.
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October the seven.
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That's not an unreasonable goal on the part
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Of the state of israel, and it's not unreasonable.
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The united states would stand with our ally
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In helping them to achieve that.
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That's why i am honored and privileged to be able
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To be named by this president to serve in this capacity,
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Because i like his sense of clarity
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When it comes to the moral issue of standing with an ally.
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And right now, israel needs an ally.
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And frankly, let me add,
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The jewish people need to know they have friends.
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There's a long line of enemies
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That the jewish people experience across this globe
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And sadly, on some of our own university campuses.
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It's going to be a privilege
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To be able to be one of those people.
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Not jewish, christian.
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In fact, but to say to our jewish friends,
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You will never go through what you've gone through alone.
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We will stand not behind you.
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We will stand with you.
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Breaking news.
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History was made today as the first evangelical
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Protestant u.s.
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Ambassador to israel has been confirmed.
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By mike huckabee.
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I, mike huckabee.
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Do solemnly swear.
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Do solemnly swear
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That i will support and defend
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The constitution of the united states.
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That i will support and defend the constitution.
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Of the united states.
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And that i will well and faithfully.
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Discharge the duties of the office, discharge
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The duties of the office on which i am about to enter.
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On which i'm about to enter.
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So help me god.
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What would you say, mr.
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Ambassador?
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I'm not sure where the call you, governor, or mr.
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Ambassador. or mike is.
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Mike or the illustrious potentate?
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I think it's what he wants me to call him.
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But your excellency would be. god, that would be great.
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For for
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People that don't study politics
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And are not a political person like you are.
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You were a governor of a state.
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You get politics.
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You ran for president twice
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That.
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I announce that i am a candidate for president
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Of the united states of america.
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What is the main role of the u.s.
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Ambassador to israel?
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What what do you what's the most important thing?
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What what are you going to go do?
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The main job the ambassador of israel has
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Is obviously to carry out the president's policies.
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An ambassador has to be very careful that he or she does
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Not go in thinking i have some real ideas here.
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I'm going to get them done.
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Because you are an ambassador, just like a christian believer
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Is an ambassador for christ.
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That person doesn't carry his own message.
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He carries the message of christ.
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If you're an
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Ambassador for a country, your job is to take the message
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And the policies of the only person who got elected.
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So i'm very mindful of the fact that on november
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The fifth of 2024, there was only one person
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Who got elected that day.
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That's donald trump.
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He's the president.
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So everyone in his administration,
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Whether they're cabinet officials or employees
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Or whether they're ambassadors,
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They work and serve at the pleasure of the president.
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So you have to be mindful of that and not go rogue,
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Thinking that somehow i've elevated myself to a position
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That one simply doesn't have.
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So it's to carry out those policies.
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One of the reasons that i feel comfortable
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In accepting the role is because having seen donald trump's
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Policies toward israel in his first four years, it's easy
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To want to salute that flag and serve this president
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Because his policies brought the highest level of peace
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To the entire middle east that we have seen
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In a couple of generations.
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Yeah. if you just tuned in, we are
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We're in the huckabee theater. and
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The the the sad realization
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That the huckabee show doesn't have a host anymore.
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Yeah.
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What are you going to do? that song over there?
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I mean. yeah, we're going to send it to your living room.
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There you go.
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And so what we have to do today
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Is, i think, first of all,
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Breathe a sigh of relief
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That israel and
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America's policies and on behalf of it
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Are going to be in good hands.
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Congratulations.
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This is something that, like you said, it
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Was, you know, uncle sam pointing his finger.
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But i think god was also
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Pointing his finger and saying, this is a big job
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And i need somebody to get there,
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Get after it next year in jerusalem.
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We'll see you there.
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But the other part of this story that i kind of wanted to do
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Is rewind the clock a little bit.
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And a lot of people remember the huckabee show on fox.
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Okay. so saturdays,
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You were our guy.
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You were our non combative host.
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You didn't yell at people.
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You didn't scream and yell.
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You had an audience. you played some music.
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You were a little bit different.
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You've always been a little bit
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Of a fish out of water in regard to news broadcasts.
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And you ran for president.
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You ran for president in 2008 and again in 16.
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Somewhere along the line
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In i'm going to call it 2011.
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My dad just had to meet you.
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He was watching you and your broadcast on fox
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And kind of pointed and said if we were ever going
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To get into this news commentary thing, he's the guy.
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Well, you know, you were happy at fox
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And somehow
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We ended up at a steak restaurant.
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Lori, me, my dad, and.
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And you were in new york.
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It felt
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Like that conversation was.
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What do you remember about it at some point?
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Well, i remember that we sat down and visited.
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There was no agenda per se.
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It wasn't like there was an offer on the table.
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And i wasn't in the position
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Where i could have accepted it had there been one. right.
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Because i was under contract with fox for
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I don't know how long at that point going forward,
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But we just had a great fellowship.
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I won't call it a visit because it was christian brothers
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Getting to know each other as much spiritually as it was
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Politically are in some form
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Of television industry terms.
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Your dad was a remarkable man.
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I really, really loved being around him.
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He was brilliant
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And such a business savvy to him, as you obviously
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Know, saw things
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In the future that other people weren't saying.
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I think he may have seen
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Somewhere out there on the horizon a huckabee show on tbn.
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I was not at that point in a position
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Where i could see it, but i think he did.
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And i remember
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It was just a sort
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Of a general discussion that if for some reason
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That i ever were to sever the relationship
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Or discontinue doing the show on fox,
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Just give him a call and let's see what might happen.
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So there wasn't any attempt to lure me away.
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Not nothing like that.
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But the seed was clearly planted.
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You know what i want to make
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A note of is if you take
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The world according to 20, 24,
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2023, 2024, you know, we're,
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You know, even 2025 now.
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And if you if you if you kind of take
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Some of the things going on in the world
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And then you wind back to the time we had
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That steak dinner in new york, it was like a different planet.
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Yeah. yeah.
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You know, in a lot of ways.
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And there was
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There are just some things that society has tolerated.
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It feels like some of it is, you know,
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Not being tolerated as much anymore,
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Which feels like good news from a biblical standpoint.
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But my dad, you got to remember something.
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My my dad wasn't really about beautiful sets like this.
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He wasn't about, you know, the production value.
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If you're a little out of focus, if the lighting wasn't exactly
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Right, if your mike was, you know,
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Kind of scratchy, you know, if he didn't care much about,
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You know, getting you know,
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You didn't care much about it, that kind of stuff,
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It was a different world back in 2012.
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So i'm picking up on what you said
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Maybe he was seeing into the future some because
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If we were there to meet you and if there was this unspoken
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Agenda that, hey, if you're never at fox,
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Give us a call kind of vibe, which i concur.
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That was kind of the feeling.
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There was no offer.
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There was no, you know.
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Even him
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Wanting to go meet somebody was super uncharacteristic.
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You know, it was like.
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To get to get him on a plane, fly across the country.
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And that was a little unusual for us.
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And and so but think of it.
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He was he knew what kind of show you had on fox
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And he was seeing the need for it.
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Then. what are you common sense?
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What are you you're explaining things to us
00:26:22.337 --> 00:26:25.607
That are really complex political matters
00:26:25.607 --> 00:26:28.343
That you break down and give us your take on it.
00:26:28.343 --> 00:26:32.147
And he saw that coming.
00:26:32.147 --> 00:26:34.482
Now, he never saw your show on tv and he was gone before.
00:26:34.482 --> 00:26:39.120
Oh, i think he saw it from the best seat in that. is.
00:26:39.120 --> 00:26:42.657
When the signal shooting past.
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Yeah.
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Okay. i agree. okay.
00:26:45.994 --> 00:26:47.195
But at some point,
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You know, we got together
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When the end of the 16 campaign,
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And here we sit today again,
00:26:54.903 --> 00:26:58.273
378 shows later, 1134
00:26:58.273 --> 00:27:02.944
Guests and 63,000 people have sat in your audience here.
00:27:02.944 --> 00:27:08.683
And we're so proud of the content.
00:27:08.683 --> 00:27:10.885
That have come out from all over the country.
00:27:10.885 --> 00:27:13.955
We have in the audience on any given taping people from as many
00:27:13.955 --> 00:27:18.960
As 27 states in a single show,
00:27:18.960 --> 00:27:22.764
Never less than 13 or 14 states.
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We're talking washington state, oregon, maine, delaware,
00:27:26.468 --> 00:27:30.004
From literally coast to coast, arizona, california,
00:27:30.004 --> 00:27:33.141
And everywhere in between.
00:27:33.141 --> 00:27:34.409
I remember one day i got a phone call from my aunt and uncle
00:27:34.409 --> 00:27:37.912
And the big crew from arizona was coming over
00:27:37.912 --> 00:27:40.782
Like about ten of your relatives of my relative.
00:27:40.782 --> 00:27:43.952
They had called me for a seat or anything.
00:27:43.952 --> 00:27:46.054
It was just a lot of rounds.
00:27:46.054 --> 00:27:48.590
So you know what we ought to do?
00:27:48.590 --> 00:27:50.692
We ought to organize to meet up in jerusalem
00:27:50.692 --> 00:27:56.097
Sometime after you'll be
00:27:56.097 --> 00:27:58.867
Living in jerusalem, israel, for,
00:27:58.867 --> 00:28:02.570
You know, this stretch of time.
00:28:02.570 --> 00:28:05.073
It's amazing if that gets to an end,
00:28:05.073 --> 00:28:07.509
You know, at some point, we'll we'll welcome you back.
00:28:07.509 --> 00:28:11.346
If if, if if we're if we're, you know, still doing tv,
00:28:11.346 --> 00:28:15.817
If it's not vr glasses or some kind of new technology
00:28:15.817 --> 00:28:19.154
That we don't know about. but.
00:28:19.154 --> 00:28:20.522
Well, and you have a beautiful tv and studio over there, too.
00:28:20.522 --> 00:28:23.591
There is a. wonderful studio in jerusalem, no. doubt.
00:28:23.591 --> 00:28:26.194
And we we welcome you to stay connected to the tv,
00:28:26.194 --> 00:28:30.632
An audience with your agenda on behalf of israel and
00:28:30.632 --> 00:28:33.935
And all of that.
00:28:33.935 --> 00:28:34.903
The show started in 217 with a bang here.
00:28:34.903 --> 00:28:39.474
Mike huckabee
00:28:39.474 --> 00:28:41.743
And we got a show for you.
00:28:41.743 --> 00:28:44.612
I'm not sharon.
00:28:44.612 --> 00:28:45.280
Nothing is happy here.
00:28:45.280 --> 00:28:47.715
Absolutely fantastic.
00:28:47.715 --> 00:28:52.954
I love you.
00:28:52.954 --> 00:28:55.089
Is very delicate here.
00:28:55.089 --> 00:28:57.458
It's pretty incredible.
00:28:57.458 --> 00:28:59.828
You're you were sitting with the president
00:28:59.828 --> 00:29:02.463
Of the united states, donald trump.
00:29:02.463 --> 00:29:03.998
That was your first show.
00:29:03.998 --> 00:29:06.301
Your thoughts on this seven year period
00:29:06.301 --> 00:29:09.337
That we've been trying to do together?
00:29:09.337 --> 00:29:12.874
It's really been the most wonderful journey ever.
00:29:12.874 --> 00:29:17.779
And in part because we got to do
00:29:17.779 --> 00:29:21.683
What you and i sat down and talked about in early 2017
00:29:21.683 --> 00:29:25.086
When we first kind of mapped out what the show would look like.
00:29:25.086 --> 00:29:29.224
Quite frankly, your vision
00:29:29.224 --> 00:29:30.558
For the studio in the theater here was far greater than mine.
00:29:30.558 --> 00:29:34.429
I mean, i,
00:29:34.429 --> 00:29:35.730
I would have been happy if we just left it like it was.
00:29:35.730 --> 00:29:38.066
And you could have come in with a very small stage and
00:29:38.066 --> 00:29:42.170
Just lived with it as it was.
00:29:42.170 --> 00:29:43.771
You insisted, nope, we're going to turn this thing.
00:29:43.771 --> 00:29:46.040
It is something incredible.
00:29:46.040 --> 00:29:47.775
And i'll tell you something.
00:29:47.775 --> 00:29:48.643
Every single guest we have that comes
00:29:48.643 --> 00:29:50.979
Who has done the talk show circuit, they've done everything
00:29:50.979 --> 00:29:54.215
From leno to letterman to kimmel and
00:29:54.215 --> 00:29:58.253
Fallon. they've done them all.
00:29:58.253 --> 00:30:00.188
Every person without an exception has said
00:30:00.188 --> 00:30:03.391
This is the finest production studio and theater
00:30:03.391 --> 00:30:08.162
In the entire country, bar none.
00:30:08.162 --> 00:30:10.331
Doesn't matter which network.
00:30:10.331 --> 00:30:11.833
This is the finest and the experience that people have.
00:30:11.833 --> 00:30:15.236
But let me tell you what
00:30:15.236 --> 00:30:16.437
I think a lot of the magic has been over these seven years.
00:30:16.437 --> 00:30:20.041
We have an incredible team.
00:30:20.041 --> 00:30:22.043
Unbelievable that if acted like family,
00:30:22.043 --> 00:30:26.180
People get along behind the scenes
00:30:26.180 --> 00:30:28.950
As much as they do on stage.
00:30:28.950 --> 00:30:31.352
When people see what appears to be the camaraderie
00:30:31.352 --> 00:30:34.155
Between trey and cheese than me on stage,
00:30:34.155 --> 00:30:37.892
What they don't see is that
00:30:37.892 --> 00:30:38.927
Backstage, those folks who are meeting our guests,
00:30:38.927 --> 00:30:42.363
Every guest will write us and say,
00:30:42.363 --> 00:30:44.699
That was the most wonderful experience.
00:30:44.699 --> 00:30:47.068
Everyone treated me so wonderfully and kind.
00:30:47.068 --> 00:30:50.872
And it's true of everyone running a camera.
00:30:50.872 --> 00:30:53.308
It's true of every single person,
00:30:53.308 --> 00:30:55.610
Whether they're the people
00:30:55.610 --> 00:30:57.111
That meet the audience and bring them in.
00:30:57.111 --> 00:30:59.447
Now, they don't get to see the people sitting up in the booth,
00:30:59.447 --> 00:31:01.983
You know, the ones
00:31:01.983 --> 00:31:03.151
Moving the buttons so much because they are kind of isolate
00:31:03.151 --> 00:31:06.154
And it's a lot of those.
00:31:06.154 --> 00:31:08.056
Big those guys with move in those. flat areas.
00:31:08.056 --> 00:31:10.692
So they're the only exception now.
00:31:10.692 --> 00:31:12.126
They're they're really great.
00:31:12.126 --> 00:31:13.127
But through all of it there's a camaraderie
00:31:13.127 --> 00:31:16.164
And an esprit de corps among the team.
00:31:16.164 --> 00:31:19.133
That is just the best i've ever worked with, way
00:31:19.133 --> 00:31:21.703
Better than anything
00:31:21.703 --> 00:31:22.403
I've experienced in government,
00:31:22.403 --> 00:31:23.871
Way better than anything i ever experienced in the secular
00:31:23.871 --> 00:31:27.041
Television world, as you might can understand.
00:31:27.041 --> 00:31:30.144
And that's why i think that seven years
00:31:30.144 --> 00:31:31.746
Honestly seems more like seven months.
00:31:31.746 --> 00:31:33.781
My god, it does not feel like i've been here this long.
00:31:33.781 --> 00:31:36.217
And when people say,
00:31:36.217 --> 00:31:38.152
Tell me about tv, do you enjoy doing that?
00:31:38.152 --> 00:31:39.854
I said, it sure beats working
00:31:39.854 --> 00:31:42.523
Because it's like a joy.
00:31:42.523 --> 00:31:43.624
Yeah,
00:31:43.624 --> 00:31:44.892
It has been like something i've never gotten where i thought,
00:31:44.892 --> 00:31:48.496
I got to go to nashville this week.
00:31:48.496 --> 00:31:50.231
I got to do another show.
00:31:50.231 --> 00:31:51.432
I've never, ever felt like that,
00:31:51.432 --> 00:31:53.668
And it was always in anticipation.
00:31:53.668 --> 00:31:56.237
They just privilege of working
00:31:56.237 --> 00:31:58.773
With people who cared what they did.
00:31:58.773 --> 00:32:01.009
They wanted to be professional.
00:32:01.009 --> 00:32:02.477
I put the production team on this show against anybody
00:32:02.477 --> 00:32:07.715
In any television facility in the country.
00:32:07.715 --> 00:32:11.185
Nobody has a better production than this show does.
00:32:11.185 --> 00:32:14.322
Not because of me, because i'm not a production guy.
00:32:14.322 --> 00:32:16.224
That's not my thing.
00:32:16.224 --> 00:32:18.026
I can see it and tell you if it is really good,
00:32:18.026 --> 00:32:21.362
But the people that make that work
00:32:21.362 --> 00:32:24.432
Do it with such
00:32:24.432 --> 00:32:25.366
A level of perfection and just quality
00:32:25.366 --> 00:32:29.203
Because they genuinely care about
00:32:29.203 --> 00:32:31.005
How it's going to come across, not just have some pride in it,
00:32:31.005 --> 00:32:37.111
But it's done as unto the lord because we have people here
00:32:37.111 --> 00:32:40.848
Who do this as a mission and a ministry,
00:32:40.848 --> 00:32:44.018
And not just because there's a check involved.
00:32:44.018 --> 00:32:47.989
And now here's mike huckabee.
00:32:47.989 --> 00:32:52.293
Buckle up, sit tight.
00:32:52.293 --> 00:32:53.995
We have a great show.
00:32:53.995 --> 00:32:55.430
The real question is why there is this.
00:32:55.430 --> 00:32:57.098
Massive double standard in media.
00:32:57.098 --> 00:32:58.699
Kids today in school, they're not getting history.
00:32:58.699 --> 00:33:01.602
He's turning on the joe biden.
00:33:01.602 --> 00:33:04.939
Man and god is always working to free
00:33:04.939 --> 00:33:08.576
So that we can help free other people.
00:33:08.576 --> 00:33:12.547
Wasn't folk free and somehow you are a white supremacist?
00:33:12.547 --> 00:33:16.684
I'm not figuring that one out. candy.
00:33:16.684 --> 00:33:19.120
Who's leading this dance anyway?
00:33:19.120 --> 00:33:20.888
I is a.
00:33:20.888 --> 00:33:22.023
Preacher's kid growing up, which would explain these
00:33:22.023 --> 00:33:24.325
Leather pants.
00:33:24.325 --> 00:33:26.527
Said john.
00:33:26.527 --> 00:33:32.233
But i think the.
00:33:32.233 --> 00:33:33.167
Ball was thousands and thousands of kids
00:33:33.167 --> 00:33:35.002
That you are giving life and hope to.
00:33:35.002 --> 00:33:37.338
We just keep seeing a need and a problem.
00:33:37.338 --> 00:33:39.407
We make it happen.
00:33:39.407 --> 00:33:40.174
No excuses.
00:33:40.174 --> 00:33:43.711
What do you call this outfit, anyway?
00:33:43.711 --> 00:33:45.847
This is ranch dressing.
00:33:45.847 --> 00:33:48.182
Oh, they're freaking out now.
00:33:48.182 --> 00:33:52.620
I just want to.
00:33:52.620 --> 00:33:54.555
Bring another taking.
00:33:54.555 --> 00:34:02.697
You got to.
00:34:02.697 --> 00:34:05.867
Kill next time.
00:34:05.867 --> 00:34:06.901
That's all.
00:34:06.901 --> 00:34:07.535
Folks.
00:34:07.535 --> 00:34:10.838
Breaking news.
00:34:10.838 --> 00:34:12.273
History was made today as the first evangelical
00:34:12.273 --> 00:34:15.143
Protestant u.s.
00:34:15.143 --> 00:34:16.177
Ambassador to israel has been confirmed.
00:34:16.177 --> 00:34:18.813
By mike huckabee.
00:34:18.813 --> 00:34:20.047
I, mike huckabee, do solemnly swear.
00:34:20.047 --> 00:34:22.884
Do solemnly swear
00:34:22.884 --> 00:34:24.051
That i will support and defend
00:34:24.051 --> 00:34:25.786
The constitution of the united states, that i will support.
00:34:25.786 --> 00:34:29.157
And defend the constitution of the united states,
00:34:29.157 --> 00:34:31.792
And that i will well and faithfully.
00:34:31.792 --> 00:34:33.728
Discharge the duties of the office,
00:34:33.728 --> 00:34:36.164
Discharge the duties of the office
00:34:36.164 --> 00:34:38.065
On which i am about to enter, on which.
00:34:38.065 --> 00:34:40.401
I'm about to enter.
00:34:40.401 --> 00:34:41.502
So help me god. so help me god.
00:34:41.502 --> 00:34:50.878
If somebody was
00:34:50.878 --> 00:34:52.046
Interviewing me about an unexpected moment
00:34:52.046 --> 00:34:56.617
In our time on television, i can think of a few things.
00:34:56.617 --> 00:35:00.922
I remember getting comments about some things
00:35:00.922 --> 00:35:04.959
That i didn't feel were
00:35:04.959 --> 00:35:08.763
Epic at the moment, but the audience perceived it
00:35:08.763 --> 00:35:12.366
Differently, and there were some times
00:35:12.366 --> 00:35:14.268
When i
00:35:14.268 --> 00:35:15.169
Thought something was epic and then never
00:35:15.169 --> 00:35:16.671
Heard anything much about it later.
00:35:16.671 --> 00:35:18.372
And and and.
00:35:18.372 --> 00:35:20.474
Then some things were just dumb.
00:35:20.474 --> 00:35:21.943
And i just people loved it.
00:35:21.943 --> 00:35:23.311
I was finishing an
00:35:23.311 --> 00:35:24.612
Episode of real videos one time and went over to my rottweiler,
00:35:24.612 --> 00:35:28.482
Who was in the back
00:35:28.482 --> 00:35:29.717
Of the pickup truck and started kind of getting him to howl,
00:35:29.717 --> 00:35:33.354
You know. joy.
00:35:33.354 --> 00:35:34.455
And joy to the world and he and she was sitting there
00:35:34.455 --> 00:35:36.824
Howling with me, and i heard about that
00:35:36.824 --> 00:35:38.859
For 20 years after that, you know that, you know,
00:35:38.859 --> 00:35:40.962
When you get you had the credits running,
00:35:40.962 --> 00:35:43.164
You had your microphone up, your dog's mouth howling.
00:35:43.164 --> 00:35:46.067
Okay.
00:35:46.067 --> 00:35:46.834
So unexpected moments
00:35:46.834 --> 00:35:48.836
Over the seven years that really turned
00:35:48.836 --> 00:35:51.072
Into something significant.
00:35:51.072 --> 00:35:52.740
What what pops in your mind when you search your memory of,
00:35:52.740 --> 00:35:58.112
Man, this was something, but it turned into something
00:35:58.112 --> 00:36:02.183
Big over the course of time.
00:36:02.183 --> 00:36:07.021
So i remember one that pops into my mind
00:36:07.021 --> 00:36:09.924
That one of your guests was arrested
00:36:09.924 --> 00:36:12.960
Prior to getting to the show.
00:36:12.960 --> 00:36:15.730
Peter navarro yeah. what was that all about?
00:36:15.730 --> 00:36:18.332
Well, peter navarro was donald trump's trade czar,
00:36:18.332 --> 00:36:22.637
Long time college professor, brilliant guy.
00:36:22.637 --> 00:36:25.406
And he was very effective.
00:36:25.406 --> 00:36:26.641
And he was the one that helped donald trump craft
00:36:26.641 --> 00:36:29.110
A lot of the trade agreements
00:36:29.110 --> 00:36:30.211
That brought jobs back to the country.
00:36:30.211 --> 00:36:32.780
When peter navarro was sent before the j.
00:36:32.780 --> 00:36:35.449
Six committee, they were demanding
00:36:35.449 --> 00:36:37.351
That he tell them conversations that he and the president had.
00:36:37.351 --> 00:36:41.088
Well, that's, quite frankly,
00:36:41.088 --> 00:36:43.591
Incredibly unconstitutional
00:36:43.591 --> 00:36:45.893
Because there is a
00:36:45.893 --> 00:36:46.927
Absolute separation
00:36:46.927 --> 00:36:48.262
Between the branches of government,
00:36:48.262 --> 00:36:49.597
The judicial, the executive and the legislative.
00:36:49.597 --> 00:36:52.266
And the legislative cannot compel the executive
00:36:52.266 --> 00:36:55.703
To share conversations that are privy to the president
00:36:55.703 --> 00:37:00.841
And his immediate staff and cabinet.
00:37:00.841 --> 00:37:04.712
So, peter navarro, when demand when he was demanded
00:37:04.712 --> 00:37:08.049
To come to congress and testify to personal conversations,
00:37:08.049 --> 00:37:12.119
Said no, and for that he was held
00:37:12.119 --> 00:37:15.156
In contempt of congress, which so was eric holder.
00:37:15.156 --> 00:37:19.260
During the obama years.
00:37:19.260 --> 00:37:20.361
Eric holder didn't
00:37:20.361 --> 00:37:21.595
Get anything more than a, gee, you shouldn't have done that.
00:37:21.595 --> 00:37:24.665
But showing you how the weaponization
00:37:24.665 --> 00:37:26.801
Of government really did work against donald trump,
00:37:26.801 --> 00:37:30.237
They filed charges in washington.
00:37:30.237 --> 00:37:34.275
There was rumor that it was going to happen.
00:37:34.275 --> 00:37:36.243
Peter navarro lived 50 yards from the front door of the fbi.
00:37:36.243 --> 00:37:40.348
He called him on wednesday and said,
00:37:40.348 --> 00:37:42.616
I hear that you might be wanting to talk to me.
00:37:42.616 --> 00:37:45.386
I live just next door to you.
00:37:45.386 --> 00:37:47.588
Do i need to come in with my attorney?
00:37:47.588 --> 00:37:49.256
No, no, we don't need to talk to you.
00:37:49.256 --> 00:37:51.892
Two days later, friday, he's getting on an airplane.
00:37:51.892 --> 00:37:54.362
He's at washington reagan airport.
00:37:54.362 --> 00:37:58.366
They don't get him on the way into the airport.
00:37:58.366 --> 00:38:00.468
They don't get him at his home.
00:38:00.468 --> 00:38:02.269
50 from their front door.
00:38:02.269 --> 00:38:03.571
They wait until he is in the doorway of the airplane
00:38:03.571 --> 00:38:07.074
And the fbi shows up and they put him in handcuffs
00:38:07.074 --> 00:38:09.744
And they arrest him.
00:38:09.744 --> 00:38:11.112
He's on his way here to be on the show.
00:38:11.112 --> 00:38:13.647
You know what?
00:38:13.647 --> 00:38:14.348
He used his only phone call far
00:38:14.348 --> 00:38:15.583
To call us and tell us he wasn't going to make.
00:38:15.583 --> 00:38:18.085
It was on my way to nashville today
00:38:18.085 --> 00:38:21.589
To do a tv appearance with mike huckabee's show.
00:38:21.589 --> 00:38:25.226
Right.
00:38:25.226 --> 00:38:26.460
And instead of coming
00:38:26.460 --> 00:38:30.030
To my door
00:38:30.030 --> 00:38:31.565
Where i live, which, by the way, is right next to the fbi,
00:38:31.565 --> 00:38:35.603
Instead of calling me and say, hey, we need you down at court,
00:38:35.603 --> 00:38:40.007
We've got a warrant for you, i would gladly come.
00:38:40.007 --> 00:38:42.676
What did they do?
00:38:42.676 --> 00:38:43.944
They intercepted me getting on the plane.
00:38:43.944 --> 00:38:47.481
He went to prison for this.
00:38:47.481 --> 00:38:49.183
That's what's fair.
00:38:49.183 --> 00:38:50.184
He served several months in a federal prison
00:38:50.184 --> 00:38:53.287
Because he followed what the constitution
00:38:53.287 --> 00:38:57.057
Clearly says about not divulging
00:38:57.057 --> 00:39:01.629
Conversations that you have with the president.
00:39:01.629 --> 00:39:03.597
Because if congress could make
00:39:03.597 --> 00:39:05.332
A president talk or make his staff
00:39:05.332 --> 00:39:07.201
Talk about everything, that they had a curiosity over,
00:39:07.201 --> 00:39:10.971
Government would absolutely be in a total standstill.
00:39:10.971 --> 00:39:15.342
Well, he made it here this time.
00:39:15.342 --> 00:39:17.511
Would you please welcome to. the show. peter navarro.
00:39:17.511 --> 00:39:39.600
I had a good excuse.
00:39:39.600 --> 00:39:41.735
For not showing up. right.
00:39:41.735 --> 00:39:43.103
You know, peter, i think the reception
00:39:43.103 --> 00:39:45.072
You got here might be just a hair better.
00:39:45.072 --> 00:39:48.008
What you got at the department of justice, right?
00:39:48.008 --> 00:39:51.378
I guess it was worth it.
00:39:51.378 --> 00:39:53.080
Walt disney said, where's the laughter?
00:39:53.080 --> 00:39:56.650
We got that part out of the way.
00:39:56.650 --> 00:39:57.985
Where are the tears?
00:39:57.985 --> 00:40:00.721
Here. what?
00:40:00.721 --> 00:40:01.622
What's what's something unexpected that.
00:40:01.622 --> 00:40:05.459
That there was an emotional time
00:40:05.459 --> 00:40:09.330
Over these last years that you didn't expect
00:40:09.330 --> 00:40:13.033
And weren't wasn't on the script.
00:40:13.033 --> 00:40:14.702
Let's say.
00:40:14.702 --> 00:40:15.936
We've always in this show had an affinity for veterans here.
00:40:15.936 --> 00:40:20.207
Are the swing dogs.
00:40:20.207 --> 00:40:31.085
Over here over tell.
00:40:31.085 --> 00:40:33.153
Me. well, it's the i trail.
00:40:33.153 --> 00:40:35.155
L.a. is still rolling along.
00:40:35.155 --> 00:40:39.727
Every veteran's day, every memorial day, every july 4th.
00:40:39.727 --> 00:40:43.163
But every single show that we have,
00:40:43.163 --> 00:40:45.266
We asked the veterans to stand up
00:40:45.266 --> 00:40:46.834
And we give them a thunderous applause.
00:40:46.834 --> 00:40:48.536
And we present with a cap
00:40:48.536 --> 00:40:50.871
And our appreciation that happens every show.
00:40:50.871 --> 00:40:54.074
Two, three, 4 to 5.
00:40:54.074 --> 00:40:58.178
You got.
00:40:58.178 --> 00:40:59.580
You will always know that those songs don't always
00:40:59.580 --> 00:41:05.519
Maybe.
00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:07.922
Hey, guys.
00:41:07.922 --> 00:41:09.423
Well, welcome to outside the theater here in hendersonville.
00:41:09.423 --> 00:41:12.960
We've got a great, great segment coming up
00:41:12.960 --> 00:41:24.271
This.
00:41:24.271 --> 00:41:30.811
Well, i want to thank you guys for being here.
00:41:30.811 --> 00:41:32.746
Jim brown, you served in korea.
00:41:32.746 --> 00:41:34.882
Luke mclaren.
00:41:34.882 --> 00:41:35.583
You were in.
00:41:35.583 --> 00:41:36.584
World war and.
00:41:36.584 --> 00:41:37.918
Flew over 20 combat missions.
00:41:37.918 --> 00:41:40.321
Katie robbins, also in world war two,
00:41:40.321 --> 00:41:43.857
Went in with the normandy invasion.
00:41:43.857 --> 00:41:46.627
And you ended up in a french village.
00:41:46.627 --> 00:41:48.662
You met a young lady there.
00:41:48.662 --> 00:41:50.564
It's a great love story.
00:41:50.564 --> 00:41:51.966
You didn't speak french? no.
00:41:51.966 --> 00:41:54.168
So how did you communicate?
00:41:54.168 --> 00:41:58.572
So i'm putting you on the spot, katie.
00:41:58.572 --> 00:42:01.508
What do you mean by that?
00:42:01.508 --> 00:42:05.512
I think you're kind of a scoundrel.
00:42:05.512 --> 00:42:07.047
I really like de.
00:42:07.047 --> 00:42:10.017
De, de de de
00:42:10.017 --> 00:42:12.953
La last.
00:42:12.953 --> 00:42:14.054
I also have this incredible veteran,
00:42:14.054 --> 00:42:19.093
Extraordinary combat soldier, white house chef.
00:42:19.093 --> 00:42:23.464
Our first.
00:42:23.464 --> 00:42:24.565
How many presidents? three, four, four presidents.
00:42:24.565 --> 00:42:27.935
But of all the great things that he's done
00:42:27.935 --> 00:42:29.436
In life tonight, it's the pinnacle of his career.
00:42:29.436 --> 00:42:32.840
He's cooking on the huckabee show.
00:42:32.840 --> 00:42:35.509
Yeah, please join me in giving a hero's welcome to army.
00:42:35.509 --> 00:42:39.980
Ranger hall of fame member and medal of honor recipient gary.
00:42:39.980 --> 00:42:43.283
Latrell.
00:42:43.283 --> 00:42:44.485
Gary, good to be here.
00:42:44.485 --> 00:42:47.988
And we die.
00:42:47.988 --> 00:42:49.356
Standing our flame from.
00:42:49.356 --> 00:42:51.058
Honor, from civil ceremony.
00:42:51.058 --> 00:42:56.730
And they are having
00:42:56.730 --> 00:43:00.334
A tough day on the air force.
00:43:00.334 --> 00:43:03.804
This is our freedom flag over in the right corner.
00:43:03.804 --> 00:43:06.707
They are from all over the u.s.
00:43:06.707 --> 00:43:08.842
And abroad.
00:43:08.842 --> 00:43:10.444
I tried to count them recently.
00:43:10.444 --> 00:43:13.981
I lost count it over a thousand.
00:43:13.981 --> 00:43:16.350
Every time we could do something for veterans.
00:43:16.350 --> 00:43:18.152
It's always special. and we do a lot.
00:43:18.152 --> 00:43:20.688
We've had some moments with veterans,
00:43:20.688 --> 00:43:24.258
Particularly those who have
00:43:24.258 --> 00:43:25.592
Been focused on preventing veteran suicide.
00:43:25.592 --> 00:43:29.563
There are 22
00:43:29.563 --> 00:43:31.865
Military veterans who take their own lives every single day.
00:43:31.865 --> 00:43:36.170
This is horrendous.
00:43:36.170 --> 00:43:37.604
You think about all
00:43:37.604 --> 00:43:38.338
The resources
00:43:38.338 --> 00:43:39.573
That we fail to deliver to those who have given their lives.
00:43:39.573 --> 00:43:42.876
They have signed their life, their bodies as a blank check
00:43:42.876 --> 00:43:46.447
To the government
00:43:46.447 --> 00:43:47.648
And they'll say, send me anywhere you want me to do.
00:43:47.648 --> 00:43:50.150
Put any weapon in my hand, put me before
00:43:50.150 --> 00:43:52.453
Any enemy, and i will do what i'm told to do
00:43:52.453 --> 00:43:56.323
To preserve my country and his freedom.
00:43:56.323 --> 00:43:58.759
And there have been some moments
00:43:58.759 --> 00:43:59.893
In one that i will always remember
00:43:59.893 --> 00:44:04.565
That as we talked to this veterans organization,
00:44:04.565 --> 00:44:08.602
Gary sinise has led the gary sinise foundation.
00:44:08.602 --> 00:44:11.905
He's one of the most remarkable people.
00:44:11.905 --> 00:44:14.341
It is such an honor to welcome back to the show,
00:44:14.341 --> 00:44:17.044
One of the finest americans i've ever known.
00:44:17.044 --> 00:44:19.046
Please welcome gary sinise.
00:44:19.046 --> 00:44:21.849
He was telling about all the things that he had seen
00:44:21.849 --> 00:44:26.253
In his work with veterans,
00:44:26.253 --> 00:44:28.555
But then he had to talk about his own son, mac,
00:44:28.555 --> 00:44:33.627
Who died of a horrific
00:44:33.627 --> 00:44:34.928
Disease and took his life over a period of almost a year.
00:44:34.928 --> 00:44:38.966
And you can see in gary this incredible grief
00:44:38.966 --> 00:44:41.435
For his own son.
00:44:41.435 --> 00:44:42.870
But he equated it to the fact that so many families
00:44:42.870 --> 00:44:46.540
Had their sons.
00:44:46.540 --> 00:44:47.641
They didn't have a year to prepare for their death,
00:44:47.641 --> 00:44:50.310
Knowing that this disease would get them.
00:44:50.310 --> 00:44:53.447
They got the phone call in the middle of the night
00:44:53.447 --> 00:44:55.115
Or the knock on the door from the chaplain.
00:44:55.115 --> 00:44:57.518
And for gary to be able to transfer so much of his own
00:44:57.518 --> 00:45:00.721
Personal grief toward those
00:45:00.721 --> 00:45:05.025
Who experienced it in their homes and lives.
00:45:05.025 --> 00:45:08.295
You know, i've always loved him.
00:45:08.295 --> 00:45:10.497
He's been a friend for a long time.
00:45:10.497 --> 00:45:12.800
But that i mean, i don't think there was anyone
00:45:12.800 --> 00:45:15.335
In this audience that was not deeply moved by his story.
00:45:15.335 --> 00:45:19.606
This has been a tough year
00:45:19.606 --> 00:45:22.176
For you and your family.
00:45:22.176 --> 00:45:24.778
And i kind of want to just
00:45:24.778 --> 00:45:26.580
Dig right into it because it's a powerful message
00:45:26.580 --> 00:45:30.450
I think you have for all of us, your son, mac, who worked
00:45:30.450 --> 00:45:34.288
For the foundation, but he's also a stellar musician,
00:45:34.288 --> 00:45:38.425
Contracted a very rare form
00:45:38.425 --> 00:45:40.894
Of cancer and passed away in january of this year.
00:45:40.894 --> 00:45:45.165
And i can't even begin to imagine
00:45:45.165 --> 00:45:48.435
Just the grief and the pain of dealing with that over
00:45:48.435 --> 00:45:52.472
These past several months and years.
00:45:52.472 --> 00:45:55.509
Yeah, it's
00:45:55.509 --> 00:45:57.578
It's been a it's been a tough fight.
00:45:57.578 --> 00:46:00.013
He was diagnosed in 2018
00:46:00.013 --> 00:46:04.084
With this rare cancer called core dogma.
00:46:04.084 --> 00:46:06.987
He was a musician from the age of nine.
00:46:06.987 --> 00:46:09.389
I exceptional drummer and a composer.
00:46:09.389 --> 00:46:11.992
He went to usc music school early last year, 2023.
00:46:11.992 --> 00:46:17.130
He said to me, dad, there's a piece of music that
00:46:17.130 --> 00:46:19.867
I never finished that i think i'd like to try to work on.
00:46:19.867 --> 00:46:23.470
He teamed up with a buddy of his from college.
00:46:23.470 --> 00:46:26.440
Mac couldn't play drums anymore because he was paralyzed
00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:29.309
From the chest down, but he picked up the harmonica.
00:46:29.309 --> 00:46:32.346
His mom suggested he get it. harmonica.
00:46:32.346 --> 00:46:34.514
He started playing and he created this album
00:46:34.514 --> 00:46:37.718
That we put out and he died about two months later.
00:46:37.718 --> 00:46:41.955
He had a special idea
00:46:41.955 --> 00:46:43.390
Of what would happen to the proceeds for this album.
00:46:43.390 --> 00:46:45.525
What do they want for that?
00:46:45.525 --> 00:46:46.793
All the proceeds for the album go to the gary sinise foundation
00:46:46.793 --> 00:46:50.430
To help our veterans.
00:46:50.430 --> 00:46:51.365
So it's.
00:46:51.365 --> 00:46:52.332
For me, it's positive.
00:46:52.332 --> 00:46:53.934
It is a wonderful album.
00:46:53.934 --> 00:46:56.970
Governor,
00:46:56.970 --> 00:46:57.938
We're seated here in the huckabee theater.
00:46:57.938 --> 00:47:00.807
What a beautiful location this is.
00:47:00.807 --> 00:47:04.077
Been the home of 378
00:47:04.077 --> 00:47:08.348
Episodes of the huckabee show, and
00:47:08.348 --> 00:47:13.053
You've served as governor of arkansas for ten years.
00:47:13.053 --> 00:47:17.758
You were governor. you ran for president
00:47:17.758 --> 00:47:20.460
You've been television personality.
00:47:20.460 --> 00:47:23.664
You were a baptist minister for even before all that.
00:47:23.664 --> 00:47:26.867
And and and now ambassador.
00:47:26.867 --> 00:47:32.739
That's a
00:47:32.739 --> 00:47:33.674
That's a pretty long little resumé there.
00:47:33.674 --> 00:47:37.277
It's like a real job jumper doesn't hold anything down.
00:47:37.277 --> 00:47:39.880
You're a jack of all trades and
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:44.551
The responsibility is going to hit you
00:47:44.551 --> 00:47:46.687
At some point if it hasn't already.
00:47:46.687 --> 00:47:49.022
That much to do in regard to this.
00:47:49.022 --> 00:47:52.125
And you know something that we, you know, are living our lives
00:47:52.125 --> 00:47:57.864
Concerning the the biblical account,
00:47:57.864 --> 00:48:00.467
The everything that the bible declares
00:48:00.467 --> 00:48:03.537
About the nation of israel.
00:48:03.537 --> 00:48:05.605
And his eyes will never depart from it all.
00:48:05.605 --> 00:48:08.041
All of that kind of
00:48:08.041 --> 00:48:10.110
Help.
00:48:10.110 --> 00:48:11.078
Help us understand your thoughts in regard to
00:48:11.078 --> 00:48:14.848
This life live to the point where
00:48:14.848 --> 00:48:18.085
We're getting ready to meet you in jerusalem.
00:48:18.085 --> 00:48:20.821
What weighs on me is that
00:48:20.821 --> 00:48:23.824
As much as i've loved doing
00:48:23.824 --> 00:48:25.425
Television shows and many of the things i've done
00:48:25.425 --> 00:48:28.495
There will be only two jobs in my life where
00:48:28.495 --> 00:48:31.598
The decisions that i made, the things that i did,
00:48:31.598 --> 00:48:34.468
Could literally affect life and death for someone.
00:48:34.468 --> 00:48:37.471
One was governor, made decisions that
00:48:37.471 --> 00:48:40.540
Truly affected life and death for people
00:48:40.540 --> 00:48:43.744
Not just carrying out a death penalty.
00:48:43.744 --> 00:48:46.113
That certainly did it.
00:48:46.113 --> 00:48:47.014
But the decisions when a disaster struck
00:48:47.014 --> 00:48:49.683
And his issues with the policy
00:48:49.683 --> 00:48:51.385
As to whether people would get medical care, there were just
00:48:51.385 --> 00:48:55.422
Many, many times
00:48:55.422 --> 00:48:57.290
And it was very, very heavy upon the heart
00:48:57.290 --> 00:49:00.961
To know that this is going to be one of those positions where
00:49:00.961 --> 00:49:06.299
You don't have the luxury of making a mistake
00:49:06.299 --> 00:49:09.069
Because it could have an impact on the lives
00:49:09.069 --> 00:49:11.738
Of a lot of innocent people.
00:49:11.738 --> 00:49:13.740
The middle east is a hotbed, has been forever,
00:49:13.740 --> 00:49:17.110
And it hadn't cooled off any.
00:49:17.110 --> 00:49:19.746
And so the policies that the president will
00:49:19.746 --> 00:49:22.582
Put in place that will affect the peace of israel,
00:49:22.582 --> 00:49:25.886
The peace of the middle east, the stability of it,
00:49:25.886 --> 00:49:29.556
Especially when i was there not long after october 7th.
00:49:29.556 --> 00:49:32.459
And i could see one of the worst things that could happen.
00:49:32.459 --> 00:49:36.296
I saw it, you ever want to see that again?
00:49:36.296 --> 00:49:39.933
And you just pray that god
00:49:39.933 --> 00:49:42.069
Can use me.
00:49:42.069 --> 00:49:45.338
This is my prayer.
00:49:45.338 --> 00:49:46.940
So that that never happens ever again.
00:49:46.940 --> 00:49:49.843
I cannot imagine under any circumstances
00:49:49.843 --> 00:49:53.013
That any right minded person
00:49:53.013 --> 00:49:57.150
Would find it acceptable
00:49:57.150 --> 00:50:00.020
To support our to even acknowledge
00:50:00.020 --> 00:50:03.690
That there was justification in any way for the massacre
00:50:03.690 --> 00:50:08.462
Of innocent civilians on october the seventh.
00:50:08.462 --> 00:50:11.164
I will be
00:50:11.164 --> 00:50:13.900
Absolutely clear to carry the president's policies.
00:50:13.900 --> 00:50:18.004
They have been clear that hamas will have no future in gaza.
00:50:18.004 --> 00:50:23.043
It can't.
00:50:23.043 --> 00:50:24.111
Hamas is not a government.
00:50:24.111 --> 00:50:25.445
It's not a standing army.
00:50:25.445 --> 00:50:26.746
It is a terrorist organization.
00:50:26.746 --> 00:50:28.548
And they acted like it and they must be treated as such
00:50:28.548 --> 00:50:32.786
And that we can help craft
00:50:32.786 --> 00:50:35.088
Some type of
00:50:35.088 --> 00:50:37.757
Setting in the middle east and specifically in israel
00:50:37.757 --> 00:50:40.927
That gives the people, god's people, the jewish people,
00:50:40.927 --> 00:50:44.998
Security and a sense of serenity.
00:50:44.998 --> 00:50:48.935
They're the most resilient people on the planet.
00:50:48.935 --> 00:50:50.770
I've never seen anything like it.
00:50:50.770 --> 00:50:53.073
But i remember a conversation i had with a young mother of
00:50:53.073 --> 00:50:56.276
Four children when i was there several months ago,
00:50:56.276 --> 00:51:00.180
And i was talking with her about her husband,
00:51:00.180 --> 00:51:04.050
Who is an idf soldier. he was in gaza.
00:51:04.050 --> 00:51:06.786
She never knew on any given day
00:51:06.786 --> 00:51:08.221
Whether he would be alive or dead.
00:51:08.221 --> 00:51:10.123
She's taking care of four kids
00:51:10.123 --> 00:51:12.058
When rockets are coming from lebanon.
00:51:12.058 --> 00:51:14.494
Rockets are coming from gaza.
00:51:14.494 --> 00:51:17.731
And several times a night, she's having
00:51:17.731 --> 00:51:20.133
To gather up her four children and go to the to the shelter
00:51:20.133 --> 00:51:24.104
Because she doesn't know if that bombs coming at them.
00:51:24.104 --> 00:51:25.872
The sirens are going off. she has no choice.
00:51:25.872 --> 00:51:27.574
She has 15 seconds to get them there.
00:51:27.574 --> 00:51:30.777
And i'll never forget her.
00:51:30.777 --> 00:51:31.778
She's got
00:51:31.778 --> 00:51:33.780
Great faith, great optimism that it's going to be okay.
00:51:33.780 --> 00:51:37.717
But here's what she said.
00:51:37.717 --> 00:51:38.785
And laura, you can appreciate this as a mother.
00:51:38.785 --> 00:51:41.054
She said, you know, i don't mind having to fight.
00:51:41.054 --> 00:51:44.491
I don't mind having to be prepared.
00:51:44.491 --> 00:51:47.594
I'm just tired of it.
00:51:47.594 --> 00:51:52.165
It really hit me hard
00:51:52.165 --> 00:51:55.435
Because in her world, she wasn't complaining.
00:51:55.435 --> 00:51:58.338
She understood that as an israeli
00:51:58.338 --> 00:52:00.040
And as a jewish woman,
00:52:00.040 --> 00:52:01.208
That the world has turned their hatred toward.
00:52:01.208 --> 00:52:04.244
That was part of what she had to live with.
00:52:04.244 --> 00:52:07.080
But she also acknowledged that human reality,
00:52:07.080 --> 00:52:10.016
That having to get up several times
00:52:10.016 --> 00:52:11.585
A night and rush her kids
00:52:11.585 --> 00:52:12.819
And then get them up the next morning, feed them
00:52:12.819 --> 00:52:14.454
Breakfast, getting, getting them to school,
00:52:14.454 --> 00:52:16.890
Being the only parent
00:52:16.890 --> 00:52:17.958
Because her husband is being shot at in gaza.
00:52:17.958 --> 00:52:21.094
She just put it in such a simple, blessed way.
00:52:21.094 --> 00:52:23.930
I'm tired and i thought, i pray the day comes
00:52:23.930 --> 00:52:28.735
When she gets a good night's rest, sleeps all night long,
00:52:28.735 --> 00:52:32.372
Doesn't have to rush her kids to shelter,
00:52:32.372 --> 00:52:35.642
And she's not tired anymore.
00:52:35.642 --> 00:52:37.811
My goodness.
00:52:37.811 --> 00:52:40.981
Wow. hey, man.
00:52:40.981 --> 00:52:42.682
Well,
00:52:42.682 --> 00:52:44.484
There is bittersweet,
00:52:44.484 --> 00:52:49.422
A feeling
00:52:49.422 --> 00:52:51.725
We dreamed of the day we would have a show
00:52:51.725 --> 00:52:57.097
That was like the one that you've now done.
00:52:57.097 --> 00:53:01.201
You know, for seven years.
00:53:01.201 --> 00:53:02.469
We dreamed that we could have a voice into,
00:53:02.469 --> 00:53:06.640
You know, kind of current event commentary.
00:53:06.640 --> 00:53:10.210
You're a musician,
00:53:10.210 --> 00:53:11.311
So it was your dream to have this over here with trey
00:53:11.311 --> 00:53:14.881
And the guys and, and everything had to come together.
00:53:14.881 --> 00:53:18.451
This theater that my parents bought in back in the nineties
00:53:18.451 --> 00:53:24.391
To do content, we modified it.
00:53:24.391 --> 00:53:27.127
We made it your home.
00:53:27.127 --> 00:53:29.162
It's a very bittersweet thing
00:53:29.162 --> 00:53:31.464
To say goodbye, but
00:53:31.464 --> 00:53:34.801
The idea that you're going to go and serve the administration
00:53:34.801 --> 00:53:39.439
As the ambassador to israel is just
00:53:39.439 --> 00:53:43.043
One of the most uplifting, beautiful moments.
00:53:43.043 --> 00:53:46.913
And so congratulations.
00:53:46.913 --> 00:53:49.349
Go with god.
00:53:49.349 --> 00:53:50.483
We pray. blessings on you, mike huckabee.
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We pray that the wisdom of the lord
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Fills you in a way that is new and fresh.
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You just you'll be astounded by even the thoughts and the
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And the and the ability that you'll have in that new role.
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You know,
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At some point
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We have to flip the lights off in here and and say goodbye.
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But maybe it's not.
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But just for a number of years, you know,
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Maybe maybe we'll see you on the other side of this.
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And and god willing,
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God willing, we'll see you on the other side of this.
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But for now, you have something very important to do.
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And we're with you, my friend, and we're behind you.
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And the
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Tv and partners are behind you, and we need to organize tours.
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Well,
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We're going to bring people and you can come speak to them.
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And you know we can we can. we can do all that.
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It's only just begun.
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Yeah, it's it's a new day.
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The the final thought.
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The final word is the ambassadors.
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It has been the greatest ride of my life.
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And i'm deeply grateful to you, to laurie,
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To all the tbn family
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Who helped dream the dream from the beginning,
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And certainly to this incredible team of professionals
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That i've had the privilege of working with here.
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Right.
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Is greatest team, most authentic christians,
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And just a joy to be able to work with a truly become family
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And it's why this seven years seems like a very brief
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Seven months at most, and it'll be the part
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I'll miss the most.
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Go with god, my friend.
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Thank you. we love you.
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Breaking news.
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History was made today as the first evangelical
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Protestant u.s.
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Ambassador to israel has been confirmed.
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By mike huckabee.
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I'm mike huckabee.
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Do solemnly swear.
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Do solemnly swear
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That i will support and defend
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The constitution of the united states.
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That i will support and defend the constitution.
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Of the united states.
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And that i will well and faithfully.
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Discharge the duties of the office.
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Discharge the duties of the office
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On which i am about to enter.
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On which i am about to enter.
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So help me god. so help me god.
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Mike Huckabee: Confirmed as U.S. Ambassador to Israel | Praise

April 9, 2025 | S25:E409 | 56:19

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