From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.
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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: January 24, 2025 | Stakelbeck Tonight | January 24, 2025
- Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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- I'm erick stakelbeck and the world as you've known it
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- These past four years is being turned upside down.
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- And that's a good thing.
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- The world economic forum is holding its annual meeting
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- In davos, switzerland, and on thursday, president trump
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- Crashed the party.
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- It was quite a wake up call for the global elites, european
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- Bureaucrats and so-called citizens of the world
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- In attendance concepts like nationalism,
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- Patriotism, peace through strength
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- And a judeo-christian worldview are all passé to these folks.
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- They want a world without borders,
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- Without any restraints on sexual depravity,
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- And ultimately a world without god.
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- But they are all in on loony climate change regulations,
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- Crackdowns on free speech, the massive redistribution
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- Of wealth,
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- And basically trying to control every aspect of your life.
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- In joe biden, they had their man in washington.
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- He was one of them.
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- The same goes for kamala harris.
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- Donald trump, on the other hand, despite his wealth and fame,
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- Is most certainly not one of them.
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- That's why he won the election in november
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- In landslide fashion.
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- And that's why his appearance before the devos crowd yesterday
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- Caused quite a stir. take a look.
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- My message to every business in the world is very simple
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- Come make
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- Your product in america
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- And we will give you among
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- The lowest taxes of any nation on earth.
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- But if you don't make your
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- Product in america, which is your prerogative,
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- Then very simply you will have to pay a tariff.
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- Under the trump administration, there will be no better place
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- On earth to create jobs, build factories or grow a company
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- Than right here in the good old usa.
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- Now, that seems like a leader who puts america first
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- As he should,
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- Because he's the president of the united states
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- And we elected him not to please some snooty bureaucrat
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- In brussels, but to improve the lives of americans.
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- And he's already doing exactly that.
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- We laid out here last night
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- How trump has spent his first days back in office,
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- Ending the invasion at our southern border
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- And rounding up murderers, rapists
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- And other violent criminals
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- Who entered our country illegally under joe biden.
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- He also just pardoned 23 pro-life activists
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- Who biden had thrown in prison for heinous crimes,
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- Like praying outside of abortion clinics.
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- I'll have more on that a bit later in the show, folks.
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- It truly is a case of good prevailing over evil,
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- And it will encourage you.
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- But in the meantime, let's head back to davos
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- And some of trump's remarks yesterday to the global elite.
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- And bear in mind what you're about to hear
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- Is pretty much the worst nightmare of these want to
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- Be masters of the universe.
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- I terminated the ridiculous
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- And incredibly wasteful green new deal.
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- I call it the green new scam
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- Withdrew from the one sided paris climate accord
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- And ended the insane and costly electric vehicle mandate.
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- We're going to let people buy the car they want to buy.
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- As you can tell, donald trump doesn't mince words.
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- So it should be no surprise
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- That he's a big advocate for free speech.
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- The same can't be said for some other western leaders,
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- Including olav schulz, prime minister of germany.
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- Here was schulz at davos earlier this week.
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- We have the freedom of speech in europe and in germany.
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- Everyone can say what he wants,
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- Even if he is a billionaire.
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- And what we do not accept is if this is supporting extreme
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- Right positions and this is what i would like to repeat again.
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- In other words,
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- Freedom of speech for me and not for the.
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- By the way, schulz defines extreme right positions as elon
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- Musk and pretty much anyone who voted for donald trump.
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- He wants to silence
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- Anyone who opposes the left wing globalist agenda.
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- Unfortunately for olaf, the free speech
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- Train has already left
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- The station and people around the world are waking up.
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- I've called it the shift and javier melee,
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- The leader of argentina, is one of its leading voices.
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- Here he was at davos yesterday, taking some inspiration,
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- No doubt from donald trump.
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- We are an example of a new way of doing politics,
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- Which is about telling people the truth to their faces
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- And trusting that they will understand
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- Until our ideas become the common currency
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- In the halls of events such as this one.
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- We can't let our guard down because i must say that forums
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- Like this one have been protagonists and promoters
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- Of the sinister agenda of wokeism
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- That is doing so much damage to the western world.
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- If we want to change,
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- If we truly want to defend the rights of citizens,
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- We must first begin by telling them the truth today.
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- Few will deny that the winds of change are blowing in the west
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- And the great burden
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- That is the common denominator among the countries
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- And institutions that are failing
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- Is the mental virus of woke ideology.
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- This is the great epidemic of our time that must be cured.
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- This is the cancer we need to get rid of.
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- Folks.
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- I don't speak spanish, but amen.
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- Momentum is building and god is moving.
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- The davos crowd has been put on notice.
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- So have the enemies of israel.
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- President trump spoke at davos about bringing peace
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- To the middle east.
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- And coming up next, we're joined by the former
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- Us ambassador to israel, david friedman, to break down what's
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- Coming in the world's most chaotic and strategic region.
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- And it all starts now.
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- He wasn't just an eye witness to history.
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- He was an active participant in it.
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- David friedman was the first u.s.
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- Ambassador to serve at the u.s.
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- Embassy in jerusalem, and he helped spearhead
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- The abraham accords.
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- All of that happened during president trump's first term.
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- Now that he's back in office, what can we expect in the next
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- Four years, in particular in the middle east?
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- Ambassador friedman joins us now.
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- He's also the author of the best seller
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- One jewish state the last best hope to resolve
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- The israeli-palestinian conflict.
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- Ambassador, always great to see you.
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- I think a good place to start in a very busy season in the
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- Middle east is with the hostages.
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- We've got four more set to be released tomorrow.
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- What's your sense, david, overall of this deal?
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- Not perfect, of course, but is this pretty much the best
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- That israel could do right now to get the hostages out?
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- Yeah, thanks, eric, for having me.
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- Always great to be with you.
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- And i think regrettably, it is in part because
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- This deal was fully baked in
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- May already, meaning it had already been negotiated.
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- Israel had already agreed to accept it.
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- And then the last minute, you know, hamas backed out.
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- So now fast forward to now trump comes in.
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- Hamas wants to see if they can,
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- You know, turn a page or maybe they're petrified.
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- Whatever the reason, they go back to it.
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- But the math, the percentages that
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- Unfortunately already baked.
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- And look, you know,
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- It's you know, i find myself responding to this.
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- I've been asked about this a lot.
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- I say something which is somewhat
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- Incomprehensible, even though i'm saying it,
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- Which is that i support the deal, but i hate to deal.
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- Yeah, you know, i support the deal because,
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- You know, anything which ends the nightmare of these poor,
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- These poor people
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- Who've been living, you know, in subhuman conditions
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- For so long, anything remains the nightmare.
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- Obviously, it's important to do.
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- But, you know, let's face it, just in the last
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- In the first round, three victims of hamas
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- Terror were exchanged for 90 terrorists.
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- Right.
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- I mean, this is this is unthinkable as
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- As a transaction, but it's the value
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- That israel places on every human life.
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- It's it's
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- Both the strength and the weakness of the state of israel.
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- David, do you think that prime minister
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- Netanyahu, in considering this deal,
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- Which again, as you just laid out,
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- Is far from perfect, do you think the fact
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- That president trump is back in office
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- Gave bibi a little more leeway perhaps to agree to this
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- Because he has a trust in president trump
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- And president trump's support for israel
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- And follow through if and when hamas collapses the deal.
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- Yeah, look, it was the key factor for sure.
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- And i and i think in particular, you touched upon it just now.
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- Look, you know,
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- Phase one does not require israel to end the war.
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- Right.
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- And so phase one is is in essence,
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- Israel pays its price in terms of releasing criminals.
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- And it's a very high price to pay.
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- 1 to 1 of the murderers of one of my friends, i recall,
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- Is being released.
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- I mean, it's painful for everybody in the country,
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- But they're getting hostages back now in phase two.
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- You know, israel has to agree with hamas as to ending the war,
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- And that's a much, much more bigger, much deeper challenge.
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- And that's hamas surrenders and agrees to leave.
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- I don't see that happening.
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- And what's different now than before is
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- The trump administration has said to san antonio, look,
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- We're
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- Not expecting you to to keep hamas in power.
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- We're not expecting you
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- To accept anything short of their surrender.
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- And if you don't get it, go back in and do what you got to do.
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- Yeah.
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- Hey, speaking of deals, david, president trump hinted yesterday
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- Talking about iran and iran's nuclear program that, look,
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- He said i'd love to avoid
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- Military action, if possible, against iran.
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- President trump is the dealmaker, of course.
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- Is there any possibility of an actually good iran nuclear deal?
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- Not like the madness that we saw under obama and biden.
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- Where is that train left the station
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- And all that's left is military action.
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- Look, if the iranians, you know, went to trump and said, look,
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- We we feel it is real good to us,
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- Just in the last few months, they've humiliated us.
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- They've shown that they can attack us any time they want.
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- And obviously, if israel can do it, america can do it,
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- You know,
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- Ten times over with america's incredible military might.
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- So if iran says, look, we're giving up our nukes,
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- It's not going to work, it's it's not not sustainable.
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- And you the united states can come in
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- And inspect anywhere you want.
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- You can come into our military bases.
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- You can go where nothing, you know, open kimono, as they say.
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- No, you know, full transparency, nothing to hide
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- In that unlikely event.
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- Yeah, there's that.
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- There's a good deal that can be made,
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- But it will only happen, i believe,
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- If iran believes that they have no choice.
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- On the bright side, saudi arabia of possible normalization
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- With israel under president trump.
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- We're going to talk more
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- About that with one of the architects
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- Of the abraham accords, ambassador david friedman.
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- Are the accords
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- About to be revived
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- And how would that change the face of the middle east
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- And even the world?
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- More with ambassador david friedman after the break.
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- Stick around.
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- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight,
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- We're talking to the former u.s.
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- Ambassador to israel, david friedman,
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- Author of the brand new best seller one jewish state.
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- Ambassador, i think of the abraham accords
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- And how close it seemed to be to normalization
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- Between israel and saudi arabia.
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- Then the biden administration took office,
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- But now president trump is back and he's made very clear
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- That he'd like to pursue
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- That once again, normalization between the saudis and israel.
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- Number one.
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- Do you think it's possible?
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- And number two, how big of a game changer would that be?
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- Well, i think it's possible, and i think it will be
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- An enormous game changer.
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- And the question is going to be.
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- Eric, what's what's the price?
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- Right.
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- It's the negotiations
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- That have been going on already for quite a while.
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- And the question is, you know, what's the price?
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- If you look at the first abraham accord
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- Between the united states and the united arab emirates
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- And israel, i mean, that was just,
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- You know, the perfect template.
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- It was peace for peace.
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- It was basically all the countries getting together
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- And saying, look,
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- We're going to
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- Empower the moderates and we're going to defeat the extremists.
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- And that was really the thesis of the abraham accords.
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- Now, you know,
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- Will the saudis come in
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- And do the same deal as the emirates
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- While they normalize with israel?
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- You know, on on basically a you know, an argument
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- That it's time to put all this behind us, maybe, you know,
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- And that would hopefully be the dominant motivation.
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- But i think the the back and forth, the
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- The give and take will be more complicated.
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- Yeah.
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- And the question is, what does it look like at the end?
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- A good deal.
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- A good deal where saudi normalizes with israel
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- Under the motivation, under the auspices of america
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- Could be
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- Could change the world,
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- You know, forever, at least for 100 years.
- 00:14:01.388 --> 00:14:02.956
- I mean, it could be incredible.
- 00:14:02.956 --> 00:14:04.491
- And i think in president trump, you've got the right guy
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- To be in charge of this of this negotiation.
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- Yeah.
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- David,
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- It would seem that one of the sticking points
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- For any potential deal would be
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- If the saudis kind of dug in their heels
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- Over the establishment of a palestinian state.
- 00:14:16.670 --> 00:14:19.205
- Now, your successor, our friend mike huckabee,
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- Said recently he thinks that's unlikely,
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- A palestinian state under president trump.
- 00:14:23.843 --> 00:14:26.079
- You've written a great new book, one jewish state.
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- What does one jewish state mean?
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- And in relation to a possible palestinian state
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- That the left and the elites have been pushing for years
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- In the biblical heartland, by the way, of judea and samaria?
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- Well,
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- The thesis of one jewish state is if you're looking for the win
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- Win, if you're looking for a way
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- To to bring peace and prosperity to judea and samaria,
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- For jews, for israelis and palestinians to reduce
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- Or everyone else,
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- The only country capable of really doing that is israel.
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- And the only way this can be achieved
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- Is under full israeli sovereignty.
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- And, you know, i would make the case to to the saudis,
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- I would make the case to my my colleagues here in america
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- That that the real way to empower
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- The palestinians is to do for the palestinians
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- What israel's done for
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- Israeli arab citizens, israeli arabs, that one of the best
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- Standards of living in the middle east.
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- You know, that to me is, is this the best outcome?
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- Israeli sovereignty?
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- And what i would say to your listeners
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- In addition is, you know, there's a cherry on top.
- 00:15:28.575 --> 00:15:30.744
- The cherry on top is this also fulfills god as well.
- 00:15:30.744 --> 00:15:33.980
- This is also consistent with god's covenant to abraham,
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- Isaac and jacob,
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- Consistent with the prophecies of ezekiel, jeremiah of isaiah.
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- So, you know,
- 00:15:41.988 --> 00:15:43.256
- The bottom line is we shouldn't
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- Be surprised that fulfilling god's will
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- Would achieve the best outcome
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- For all the inhabitants of judea and samaria.
- 00:15:48.228 --> 00:15:50.597
- And i hope to make that case.
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- It seems like we're in a moment right now,
- 00:15:52.298 --> 00:15:54.134
- And you mentioned it a little while ago.
- 00:15:54.134 --> 00:15:55.969
- Iran's ring of fire that surrounds
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- Israel on all sides, that's
- 00:15:58.204 --> 00:15:59.706
- Basically a smoldering heap of ruins right now.
- 00:15:59.706 --> 00:16:02.842
- Iran's air defenses have been destroyed.
- 00:16:02.842 --> 00:16:05.512
- President trump is back in office.
- 00:16:05.512 --> 00:16:07.580
- And you mentioned god and you're a man of faith.
- 00:16:07.580 --> 00:16:09.849
- Do you sense we're seeing something happen here
- 00:16:09.849 --> 00:16:12.585
- That we're in a moment right now where israel
- 00:16:12.585 --> 00:16:15.055
- Can really benefit and blossom in this current climate?
- 00:16:15.055 --> 00:16:20.427
- Yeah, look, look, you know,
- 00:16:20.427 --> 00:16:22.462
- Whether you're a person of faith or not,
- 00:16:22.462 --> 00:16:24.297
- If you're
- 00:16:24.297 --> 00:16:25.398
- If you're watching carefully and you're not seeing
- 00:16:25.398 --> 00:16:27.400
- The hand of god or some supernatural powers in play,
- 00:16:27.400 --> 00:16:31.404
- Then i think you're thinking not watching fully.
- 00:16:31.404 --> 00:16:34.240
- You're not comprehending fully what's going on from trump's
- 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:39.012
- Totally improbable election,
- 00:16:39.012 --> 00:16:41.281
- His survival of this assassination attempt by
- 00:16:41.281 --> 00:16:44.684
- By a millimeter, by israel's ability
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- To completely decapitate hezbollah.
- 00:16:47.387 --> 00:16:50.857
- You know, the beepers, the pagers,
- 00:16:50.857 --> 00:16:53.460
- Killing hassan nasrallah, who was unkillable,
- 00:16:53.460 --> 00:16:56.963
- Killing
- 00:16:56.963 --> 00:16:58.998
- Ismail haniya, the head of hamas
- 00:16:58.998 --> 00:17:01.201
- In the most secure, you know, dormitory in tehran.
- 00:17:01.201 --> 00:17:04.637
- You know,
- 00:17:04.637 --> 00:17:06.473
- Flying into iran and destroying their
- 00:17:06.473 --> 00:17:10.009
- Defenses, flying around like, you know,
- 00:17:10.009 --> 00:17:11.678
- They can reach anywhere, any time.
- 00:17:11.678 --> 00:17:13.813
- The fact that that iran shots 300 ballistic
- 00:17:13.813 --> 00:17:16.516
- Missiles in israel, 300 missiles that no one has ever before
- 00:17:16.516 --> 00:17:20.420
- Been the recipient of 300 ballistic missiles,
- 00:17:20.420 --> 00:17:23.456
- You know, within the course of an hour.
- 00:17:23.456 --> 00:17:24.791
- And now israeli was killed.
- 00:17:24.791 --> 00:17:26.192
- I mean, this is something happening here.
- 00:17:26.192 --> 00:17:28.761
- And i think that i think that's i think that is completely
- 00:17:28.761 --> 00:17:33.066
- It's it's you don't need to be a person of faith
- 00:17:33.066 --> 00:17:35.535
- To see the hand of god here. david, always great to see you.
- 00:17:35.535 --> 00:17:38.071
- Shabbat shalom, my friend. god bless.
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- Ambassador friedman, we will see you again soon.
- 00:17:39.839 --> 00:17:42.075
- And coming up after the break,
- 00:17:42.075 --> 00:17:43.877
- Today is the march for life in washington, d.c.
- 00:17:43.877 --> 00:17:47.480
- Vice president j.d. vance is speaking there.
- 00:17:47.480 --> 00:17:50.083
- We've got a breakdown of that and a very important series
- 00:17:50.083 --> 00:17:54.621
- Of presidential pardons that president trump just issued
- 00:17:54.621 --> 00:17:58.391
- Regarding pro-life activist folks,
- 00:17:58.391 --> 00:18:00.994
- You're going to want to hear about this.
- 00:18:00.994 --> 00:18:02.362
- That's next. i'll move.
- 00:18:02.362 --> 00:18:04.000
- That's next. i'll move.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
- 00:18:07.440 --> 00:18:09.042
- Folks, this is a day for celebration and gratitude.
- 00:18:09.042 --> 00:18:12.746
- Not only was the annual march for life held in washington,
- 00:18:12.746 --> 00:18:16.082
- D.c., featuring
- 00:18:16.082 --> 00:18:17.484
- Vice president jd vance standing for the unborn.
- 00:18:17.484 --> 00:18:20.954
- But the pro-life movement also just received
- 00:18:20.954 --> 00:18:24.891
- A major victory on thursday, thanks to a powerful
- 00:18:24.891 --> 00:18:29.029
- And profoundly moral act by president trump, one that
- 00:18:29.029 --> 00:18:32.933
- Reflects the values we hold dear as bible believing christians.
- 00:18:32.933 --> 00:18:37.337
- The president issued pardons for 23 peaceful
- 00:18:37.337 --> 00:18:41.908
- Pro-life advocates who were unjustly imprisoned
- 00:18:41.908 --> 00:18:45.078
- Under the biden administration, thanks to the so-called freedom
- 00:18:45.078 --> 00:18:49.316
- Of access to clinic entrances or face act.
- 00:18:49.316 --> 00:18:53.620
- Now, let me remind you, these were not violent agitators
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- Or lawbreakers.
- 00:18:57.157 --> 00:18:58.458
- These were peaceful individuals, many of them elderly,
- 00:18:58.458 --> 00:19:02.095
- Who simply stood up for the voiceless,
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- The most innocent among us, the unborn.
- 00:19:04.364 --> 00:19:07.367
- They prayed. they counseled.
- 00:19:07.367 --> 00:19:09.369
- And they peacefully protested, exercising their first amendment
- 00:19:09.369 --> 00:19:13.473
- Rights to speak truth to power and to defend the sanctity
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- Of life.
- 00:19:17.911 --> 00:19:18.845
- Yet, under the biden administration,
- 00:19:18.845 --> 00:19:21.181
- These men and women were relentlessly prosecuted
- 00:19:21.181 --> 00:19:24.551
- Not for breaking any real laws, but for daring to stand
- 00:19:24.551 --> 00:19:28.154
- In opposition to an agenda that celebrates and promotes
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- A culture of death.
- 00:19:32.559 --> 00:19:34.227
- The biden department of justice
- 00:19:34.227 --> 00:19:36.029
- Went after these peaceful, devoutly christian folks
- 00:19:36.029 --> 00:19:39.466
- As though they were hardened criminals,
- 00:19:39.466 --> 00:19:41.601
- All while turning a blind eye to violence
- 00:19:41.601 --> 00:19:45.171
- Against pro-life pregnancy centers and churches.
- 00:19:45.171 --> 00:19:48.775
- It was not only unjust, it was a glaring
- 00:19:48.775 --> 00:19:51.778
- Double standard and it was evil.
- 00:19:51.778 --> 00:19:54.814
- But on thursday, that injustice was overturned.
- 00:19:54.814 --> 00:19:58.485
- President trump pardoned these 23 pro-life individuals
- 00:19:58.485 --> 00:20:02.055
- And in the process
- 00:20:02.055 --> 00:20:03.290
- Called out the travesty that led to their prosecution.
- 00:20:03.290 --> 00:20:07.227
- Take a look.
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- Next, we have a set of pardons for.
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- Peaceful.
- 00:20:12.899 --> 00:20:14.000
- Pro-life protesters who were prosecuted by the biden
- 00:20:14.000 --> 00:20:16.703
- Administration for exercising their first amendment rights.
- 00:20:16.703 --> 00:20:20.407
- You know how many?
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- I believe it's 23, sir.
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- 23 people were prosecuted.
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- They should not have been prosecuted.
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- Then of many of them are
- 00:20:31.318 --> 00:20:34.554
- Elderly people.
- 00:20:34.554 --> 00:20:36.656
- They should not have been prosecuted.
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- This is a great honor to sign this.
- 00:20:39.359 --> 00:20:47.167
- Proverbs chapter 31 says,
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- Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves,
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- For the rights of all who are destitute.
- 00:20:53.106 --> 00:20:56.109
- Speak up and judge fairly.
- 00:20:56.109 --> 00:20:58.411
- Defend the rights of the poor and needy.
- 00:20:58.411 --> 00:21:01.448
- These 23 peaceful pro-life protesters did exactly that.
- 00:21:01.448 --> 00:21:05.552
- They stood for life, for truth and for god's eternal values.
- 00:21:05.552 --> 00:21:10.590
- And in issuing their pardons.
- 00:21:10.590 --> 00:21:12.759
- President trump did the same.
- 00:21:12.759 --> 00:21:14.527
- Remember, during his first term, he also chose three supreme
- 00:21:14.527 --> 00:21:18.698
- Court justices that helped overturn roe v wade.
- 00:21:18.698 --> 00:21:22.502
- Bottom line,
- 00:21:22.502 --> 00:21:23.670
- The pro-life movement has a friend in the white house.
- 00:21:23.670 --> 00:21:27.207
- It also has one at the vice president's residence.
- 00:21:27.207 --> 00:21:30.410
- Here was j.d.
- 00:21:30.410 --> 00:21:31.478
- Vance earlier today at the march for life in d.c..
- 00:21:31.478 --> 00:21:36.349
- The benchmark of national success is not.
- 00:21:36.349 --> 00:21:39.386
- Our gdp number or our stock market,
- 00:21:39.386 --> 00:21:41.988
- But whether people feel that they can raise thriving
- 00:21:41.988 --> 00:21:45.225
- And healthy families in our country.
- 00:21:45.225 --> 00:21:49.763
- You make it possible for us to stand here and say
- 00:21:49.763 --> 00:21:53.166
- That america is fundamentally a pro baby.
- 00:21:53.166 --> 00:21:56.569
- A pro-life and a pro-family country.
- 00:21:56.569 --> 00:21:59.806
- It is a joy and a blessing to fight for the unborn,
- 00:21:59.806 --> 00:22:04.177
- To work for.
- 00:22:04.177 --> 00:22:04.978
- The unborn, and to march for life.
- 00:22:04.978 --> 00:22:09.482
- Folks, when we take a stand for righteousness,
- 00:22:09.482 --> 00:22:11.818
- The god of justice takes notice and he acts.
- 00:22:11.818 --> 00:22:15.655
- That bodes
- 00:22:15.655 --> 00:22:16.756
- Well for our new administration and for our country.
- 00:22:16.756 --> 00:22:19.959
- Honor god and he will honor you.
- 00:22:19.959 --> 00:22:23.897
- Up next, my final thoughts on moral clarity
- 00:22:23.897 --> 00:22:27.600
- And taking a stand.
- 00:22:27.600 --> 00:22:29.436
- Stick around.
- 00:22:29.436 --> 00:22:35.005
- Stick around.
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- Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
- 00:22:38.717 --> 00:22:40.186
- Folks, as we wrap up here,
- 00:22:40.186 --> 00:22:41.587
- We've been talking tonight about moral clarity
- 00:22:41.587 --> 00:22:44.223
- And taking a stand for what is right.
- 00:22:44.223 --> 00:22:46.358
- It makes me think of first thessalonians
- 00:22:46.358 --> 00:22:48.527
- Chapter five, verse 21 test everything that is said.
- 00:22:48.527 --> 00:22:53.199
- Hold on to what is good.
- 00:22:53.199 --> 00:22:55.734
- And when you do that,
- 00:22:55.734 --> 00:22:56.869
- That is how you will attain moral clarity
- 00:22:56.869 --> 00:22:59.738
- And a moral compass in your life.
- 00:22:59.738 --> 00:23:02.141
- Follow the direction of god almighty
- 00:23:02.141 --> 00:23:04.710
- And you will take a stand
- 00:23:04.710 --> 00:23:06.412
- For the unborn and for all that is good and true.
- 00:23:06.412 --> 00:23:09.648
- Hey, speaking of which, general
- 00:23:09.648 --> 00:23:11.217
- Michael flynn is here on monday, january 27th.
- 00:23:11.217 --> 00:23:13.786
- You will not want to miss that.
- 00:23:13.786 --> 00:23:15.054
- Sammy rodriguez and johnny moore with us next tuesday.
- 00:23:15.054 --> 00:23:17.923
- Great things lined up.
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- Have a great weekend.
- 00:23:19.291 --> 00:23:20.860
- God bless you and we'll see you soon.
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