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Ep 1130 | Step 1 of Trump Ceasefire COMPLETE as Living Hostages Return Home After 2 Years | Guest: Jason Buttrill · Predictable with Stu Burguiere

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  Stu does America.
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  Jason Buttrell is back with the inside
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  scoop of this weekend's ceasefire negotiations.
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  We've got some brand new Jasmine Crockett wisdom
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  to break down for you.
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  I can't wait for that,
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  but we're gonna start by doing the art
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  of the hostage deal.
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  Yes.
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  What a day.
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  I don't even know how else to put it.
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  Uh,
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  Hamas has swapped the last Israeli hostages for
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  Palestinian prisoners.
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  The Israeli military said it had received all hostages confirmed to be alive
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  after their transfer from Gaza by the Red Cross,
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  prompting cheering,
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  hugging,
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  and weeping among thousands waiting at Hostage Square
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  in Tel Aviv.
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  Uh,
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  let's give you a little picture of that.
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  This is what it looked like in,
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  uh,
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  in,
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  uh,
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  Tel Aviv.
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  Donald Trump's signs being waved by the crowd there.
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  They are cheering the flags everywhere.
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  This is a thrilling moment for the country and
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  one I don't know that they thought was coming.
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  I mean when you know an invading army comes
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  in and kills 1200 people and takes 250 hostages.
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  There has to be a moment,
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  right,
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  as a,
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  as a country,
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  as certainly even the family members,
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  where you,
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  in some ways,
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  despite all of your hope and all of your prayers,
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  there has to be at least a doubt that creeps into
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  your mind that you're ever going to see them again.
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  Maybe you're kind of written them off
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  in your head.
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  I'm sure that happened with some of these families,
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  and yet here they are
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  hugging their relatives once again.
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  I mean,
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  just an incredible day
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  as far as that goes.
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  Uh,
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  now a direct meeting had it became
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  true between,
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  uh,
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  Trump and,
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  uh,
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  Hamas leaders,
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  which sealed the Gaza deal.
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  Uh,
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  one barrier to the deal was that Hamas leaders feared
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  Israel would resume the war once the hostages were freed.
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  In order to deliver a deal,
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  one of the sources contended,
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  uh,
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  Steve.
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  and Jared Kushner had to meet with the Hamas leaders in person and
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  directly assure them that Trump wouldn't let that happen as long as the group
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  held up its side of the deal.
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  And I think that is real,
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  right?
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  Like Trump is not screwing around here.
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  This is a big part of his legacy now.
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  He's going to do everything he can
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  to prevent Israel from just going back in there after this.
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  He's trying to actually hold up
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  a fair deal on both sides.
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  This is what he does.
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  And a lot of times,
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  you know,
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  it makes you feel weird,
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  right?
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  Like the fact that like,
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  you know,
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  Hamas is gonna get some sort of protection after this potentially.
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  Uh,
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  can feel really weird and I can understand why a lot of people don't like that,
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  uh,
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  but this is what,
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  you know,
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  he believed was necessary to get this done,
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  and it is actually
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  done.
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  So far,
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  there's a lot more to go through and we'll go through that here in a second,
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  but world leaders gathered in Egypt to throw
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  their weight behind the Gaza ceasefire deal.
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  US and Egyptian presidents
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  chairing a gathering of world leaders dubbed Summit of Peace on Monday.
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  To support ending the more than 2 year Israel-Hamas
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  war in Gaza after a breakthrough ceasefire deal.
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  Israel and Hamas have no direct contacts,
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  uh,
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  and we're not expected to attend Monday's summit.
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  But
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  frankly,
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  like,
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  it's
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  much more significant that these Arab countries are coming together,
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  uh,
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  in the,
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  you know,
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  other regional powers and saying,
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  yeah,
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  we're in on this.
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  Like we want to help,
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  we want to be part of this.
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  Israel has enough trust to say,
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  OK,
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  even though you guys have maybe threatened us in the past,
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  we're gonna look past that,
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  we want the best for everybody here.
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  Hamas,
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  I think,
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  is going to be much
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  happier dealing with these nations and
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  an international security force rather than
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  the United States or Israel certainly.
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  So there's some hope there that maybe this turns into something
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  real
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  over a longer period of time.
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  Now
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  there was a bunch of speeches that went down after all of this.
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  It was,
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  it was quite entertaining actually.
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  Netanyahu started this off and
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  He was speaking about his relationship
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  with the United States and Donald Trump and,
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  and more specifically,
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  how unique Donald Trump was to,
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  to make this happen.
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  This isn't just generic praise of America,
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  which is,
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  you know,
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  common from
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  Israeli leaders.
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  This is very specific.
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  Trump is the guy who made this happen.
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  Watch.
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  Just at that point of maximum pressure on Israel.
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  A man named Donald J.
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  Trump
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  was elected President of the United States.
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  And ladies and gentlemen,
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  Overnight
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  Overnight
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  Everything changed
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  everything.
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  We felt it right here.
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  Mr.
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  President,
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  thanks to your unequivocal backing of Israel,
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  we secured a second hostage deal.
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  Within weeks of your election.
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  And in the months that followed,
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  we worked closely together
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  to forge a path to bring the remaining hostages home
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  and end the war,
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  end the war in a way that ensures the disarming of Hamas,
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  the demilitarization of Gaza,
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  and that Gaza would never again pose a threat to
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  Israel is the way that clip got a little cut off there,
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  but you get the point.
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  What's fascinating about that,
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  and,
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  and look,
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  There's a lot going on right now.
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  A lot of people are very stressed out,
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  a lot of people saying all sorts of different things.
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  What I would,
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  what I would just mention here,
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  um,
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  is listen to the way he's talking about Donald
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  Trump and what Donald Trump did for Israel.
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  You know,
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  there's a lot of theories out there.
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  A lot of people believe in a lot of different things.
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  You should follow that to the end
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  conclusion a little bit,
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  and if you do,
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  I don't know,
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  it might put you in a position where you question some of those thoughts because
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  Frankly,
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  if you believe all this stuff about Israel,
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  a lot of people are saying a lot of bad things about Israel these days.
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  You believe those,
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  you gotta believe Donald Trump's in on it.
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  Whatever you think Israel's going down,
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  you gotta believe that Israel is going down that road with,
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  with him and
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  with his approval,
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  I.
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  I mean,
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  all the information we're hearing about a lot of
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  this stuff is coming from the Trump administration.
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  Trump is out there helping Israel end this war,
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  putting some pressure on them,
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  I think,
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  to get there,
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  but
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  basically nonstop praise
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  of Israel throughout.
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  I mean,
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  let me give you an example of this.
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  This is Bibi Netanyahu talking
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  about
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  Donald Trump and the relationship they have with
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  Donald Trump sitting right next to him.
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  Watch.
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  My friends,
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  this is only
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  a partial list.
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  But it's enough to affirm what I've said time and again.
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  Donald Trump
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  is the greatest friend that the state of Israel has ever had in the White House.
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  I mean,
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  they've had some good buddies.
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  You know,
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  it's not like there's been tons and tons of hardcore
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  opponents to Israel in their,
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  in their
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  life as a nation,
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  at least most recent
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  form.
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  That's a fascinating thing for him to say,
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  and it is something important to consider here.
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  I mean,
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  look,
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  you can criticize Trump if you want.
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  If you think he's done all these terrible things,
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  you can say that,
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  but you should say it,
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  I think.
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  And if you,
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  if you,
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  if you really believe this is what Israel is doing,
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  you gotta kind of believe Trump is there too,
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  and
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  I don't know,
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  it seems that seems like,
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  uh.
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  A strange thing to have voted for,
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  certainly,
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  uh,
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  so anyway,
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  you can go down that road if,
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  if you choose.
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  Uh,
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  uh,
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  Trump was in his element
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  there.
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  I mean,
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  he's got guys just heaping praise on him all over the place.
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  He's there,
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  he's jocular,
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  he's busting on people,
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  he's
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  telling stories,
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  he's talking about how much Joe Biden sucked.
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  It was great.
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  I gotta say,
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  sometimes you forget with Donald Trump.
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  There's a reason why the guy was a celebrity,
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  right?
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  Like he's an entertaining guy,
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  and just because he's president of the United States,
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  some people love him,
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  some people hate him,
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  and that's what's kind of overwhelming.
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  When he gets in these moments where he's just like laying it out
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  there and just doing something fun that's not necessarily in this instance,
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  divisive.
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  I mean,
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  the audience was very receptive to everything he was saying.
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  Um,
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  it is fascinating to see him in that mode because he,
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  this is Trumpet at his happiest
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  doing this job.
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  Um,
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  let me
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  give you first a taste of
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  who he blamed for getting everybody into this problem in the first place.
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  Once you go back a couple of years,
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  uh,
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  if I were in charge and the country was doing what they,
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  nobody was going to ask me to speak.
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  Nobody asked Joe Biden to come up and speak.
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  I guarantee you that.
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  And if they did,
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  he would have turned them down,
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  I promise you.
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  He didn't speak.
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  He didn't speak and he didn't speak well.
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  But
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  all of the countries in the Middle East,
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  it
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  could have what we're doing now,
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  it could have happened a long time ago,
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  but it was strangled and set back almost irretrievably by the administrations of
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  Barack Obama and then Joe Biden.
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  There was there was a hatred toward Israel.
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  There was an absolute hatred.
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  The setbacks really started when President Obama signed the Iran nuclear deal.
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  This was a disaster for Israel and it was a disaster for everyone,
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  and I remember that
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  Bibi Netanyahu came to the United States and worked so hard
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  to try and get Obama not to do that deal.
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  Yes,
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  and that's true,
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  and they did it anyway,
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  and it was a disaster,
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  as one would expect.
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  It's no longer in standing,
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  thankfully.
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  Uh,
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  but there's a close relationship that went on this entire time,
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  and you know,
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  like
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  I said,
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  there's not a lot of presidents that have been opposed to Israel,
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  at least not in their public words.
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  We definitely have seen,
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  um,
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  a more negative turn toward Israel by a lot of Democratic presidents,
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  and
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  probably the biggest difference would have been.
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  Kamala Harris got in.
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  Remember,
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  Kamala Harris was behind the scenes pushing Joe Biden to be more anti-Israel.
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  As we've said many times on this program,
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  when Biden was in office
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  and we were talking about this,
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  Biden didn't seem all that pro-Israel to me.
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  I mean,
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  like,
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  I,
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  his words at times were pro-Israel,
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  but his actions I thought were not.
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  And Kamala Harris,
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  one of the main criticisms,
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  when,
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  when she was asked,
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  hey,
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  can you separate yourself from Biden in any way?
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  What did he right,
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  what,
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  what did he wrong?
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  She,
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  of course,
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  famously in The View said,
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  I can't think of anything.
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  She's later updated that thought to be like,
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  I should have been tougher on Israel.
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  So like this could have gone a much
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  different direction and it is incredibly significant.
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  Um,
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  I wanted to show you this though,
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  this is Donald Trump
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  just kind of busting on Marco Rubio,
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  who's been doing,
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  you know,
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  by all reporting,
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  uh,
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  a good job.
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  You know,
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  uh,
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  something,
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  one of the rare things that sort of unifying many factions on the right,
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  some who are critical of Donald Trump really
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  love his pick of Rubio and the things that he's done.
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  Uh,
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  Here is Trump talking about Rubio.
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  And I have a prediction that Marco will go down,
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  I mean this,
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  as the greatest Secretary of State
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  in the history of the United States.
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  I believe that.
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  I believe you.
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  And he and I,
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  you know,
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  we really fought it out,
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  you remember he was tough.
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  He was nasty.
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  Who the hell thought this was gonna happen,
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  Marco,
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  right?
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  And now I'm saying he's gonna go down as the greatest he will.
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  He was always,
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  he was always smart and sharp and people respect him.
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  He really is incredible when you think back
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  to the 2016
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  primary.
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  Of how far they were apart,
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  and you think back at Rubio who kind of seemed like
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  he was a big rising star through the uh Tea Party,
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  I think he was,
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  you know,
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  I would consider him one of the favorites going into that primary,
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  um,
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  not necessarily,
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  you know,
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  the top guy,
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  but was up there.
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  And,
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  uh,
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  it never really caught on and then had that weird like
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  3-day turn where he turned into like Triumph the Insult comic,
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  you know,
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  it was like,
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  um,
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  like all of a sudden he was just like
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  insulting him and then he turned around again and was like,
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  I shouldn't have done that,
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  it's not me.
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  And he
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  had like a pretty good speech on the way out,
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  and that was like,
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  people were like,
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  is this it for,
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  for Mar Marco Rubio?
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  The answer to that was no,
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  he's really
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  turned it around.
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  He became a very respected senator throughout that period and then.
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  Secretary of State and seemingly doing about half
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  the jobs in the White House right now,
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  so that's been kind of interesting.
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  Um,
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  what does this mean for the Middle East?
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  Donald Trump has a prediction or at least a,
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  at least a hope for what,
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  what the path is forward.
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  Here he is talking about it.
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  This is not
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  only
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  the end of a war,
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  this is the end of an age of terror and death and
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  the beginning of
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  the age of faith
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  and hope
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  and of God.
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  It's the start of a grand concord and lasting harmony
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  for Israel and all the nations of
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  what will soon be a truly
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  magnificent region.
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  I believe that so strongly.
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  This is the historic dawn of.
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  A new Middle East.
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  So there you go,
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  uh,
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  you know,
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  big hopes certainly for the region.
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  Now you might expect the reaction when everything,
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  when anything happens with Donald Trump,
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  it's always a bad reaction,
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  right?
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  The media goes negative,
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  they go terrible.
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  There was a lot of that,
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  but also some positive.
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  Um,
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  let me give you Sam Harris.
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  Harris,
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  uh,
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  talking with,
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  uh,
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  Jason
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  Cohen,
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  um,
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  about,
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  uh,
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  this deal in the Middle East,
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  and he had some nice words.
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  Trump got a deal done.
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  And that's something I don't believe you believe
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  would have happened under a President Harris.
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  It pains me somewhat to admit this,
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  but yes,
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  he's,
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  he's certainly been good for the Middle East and for Israel
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  in a way that I don't think there was any reason to expect
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  Harris to be good,
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  and Biden certainly wasn't good apart from the first.
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  A few weeks after October 7th or maybe a couple of months after October 7th.
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  He's a,
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  you know,
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  not a fan of Donald Trump,
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  but giving him appropriate credit,
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  I think that's good.
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  And of course this has been going on for a while,
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  it's not,
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  you know,
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  it shouldn't just be
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  a couple of examples I can pull out.
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  I mean,
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  the,
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  the,
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  the,
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  the,
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  the captives themselves were saying this was the main difference.
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  I want you to listen to one of them
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  speaking out about this.
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  This is from a couple of months ago,
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  but you might,
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  may have missed it.
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  What was the change when Donald Trump,
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  uh,
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  came in and what did they expect between Trump and Harris?
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  What was the difference?
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  Watch.
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  Yes,
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  it's him.
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  He got me out.
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  He got the hostages out.
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  Um
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  Before
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  we felt like nothing is happening,
• 13:55
  you know,
• 13:56
  and I remember
• 13:57
  there for me there ever since
• 13:59
  he came into the role,
• 14:01
  they were very scared of him.
• 14:03
  They wanted
• 14:05
  terrorists were afraid of Trump.
• 14:07
  Yes,
• 14:08
  they wanted Kamala to be chosen to be elected.
• 14:11
  You talked politics with them,
• 14:12
  yeah,
• 14:13
  yeah,
• 14:13
  yeah.
• 14:14
  They wanted Kamala to be elected.
• 14:17
  Um,
• 14:19
  But as soon as
• 14:22
  as as
• 14:23
  as Donald Trump was elected,
• 14:25
  they understood that
• 14:27
  he wants to bring the ostriches back home,
• 14:29
  yeah.
• 14:31
  So immediately the
• 14:33
  the the the way they treated me changed.
• 14:38
  So it's,
• 14:38
  if it's the,
• 14:39
  the amount of food,
• 14:40
  I can say,
• 14:41
  I could say this,
• 14:42
  that
• 14:43
  when,
• 14:44
  when Trump
• 14:45
  came into,
• 14:47
  became president,
• 14:48
  yeah.
• 14:49
  The way they treated us changed
• 14:53
  for me
• 14:54
  personally.
• 14:54
  This is what I think because they anticipated that a deal would come soon,
• 14:58
  and that's when they started giving you more food,
• 15:00
  exactly more food,
• 15:01
  treated me better,
• 15:02
  you know,
• 15:03
  stopped cursing me,
• 15:04
  stopped spitting,
• 15:05
  spitting on me.
• 15:07
  They were spitting and cursing.
• 15:08
  Were they beating you?
• 15:10
  No,
• 15:10
  never.
• 15:10
  I was never,
• 15:11
  except,
• 15:12
  uh,
• 15:12
  the 7th of October.
• 15:13
  I was never abused,
• 15:15
  uh,
• 15:15
  physically,
• 15:17
  but I think it's because the way I managed around the relationship.
• 15:21
  Yeah,
• 15:22
  I mean,
• 15:22
  that's
• 15:24
  jarring.
• 15:25
  How do you feel if you're Kamala Harris hearing that?
• 15:28
  Uh,
• 15:28
  you know,
• 15:29
  certainly we can all say she probably has no soul and feels nothing,
• 15:32
  but
• 15:32
  I,
• 15:32
  I mean,
• 15:33
  I'd have to feel pretty terrible about the fact that like the,
• 15:36
  you know,
• 15:36
  people,
• 15:37
  the terrorists were hoping for her to be elected.
• 15:40
  How,
• 15:41
  imagine if that was you.
• 15:43
  The terrorists were wanting me to be elected,
• 15:45
  like,
• 15:45
  uh,
• 15:46
  I mean,
• 15:46
  again,
• 15:46
  she was
• 15:47
  very close to the Hamas side of the party,
• 15:49
  so I,
• 15:50
  I don't know if that was too effective,
• 15:52
  uh,
• 15:52
  to her.
• 15:53
  Um,
• 15:53
  I will also,
• 15:53
  uh,
• 15:54
  point out that even CNN
• 15:55
  admitted
• 15:56
  this truth.
• 15:57
  This is from an early morning article that we screenshotted for a reason.
• 16:02
  Uh,
• 16:02
  it's,
• 16:02
  uh,
• 16:03
  two years after October 7th,
• 16:05
  Trump arrives in Israel having accomplished what Biden could not.
• 16:08
  That's how CNN put it.
• 16:10
  Of course if you go back there now,
• 16:12
  we couldn't find that anywhere,
• 16:13
  we instead found this in its place.
• 16:15
  When Biden visited visited Israel,
• 16:18
  wounds were fresh and tension was mounting.
• 16:21
  Two years later,
• 16:22
  Trump arrives with prospect of peace.
• 16:24
  So like that much more generic story,
• 16:26
  not really saying,
• 16:28
  and Biden couldn't pull this off,
• 16:29
  but that's where it goes.
• 16:31
  And I will say like,
• 16:32
  it is important to note,
• 16:34
  and I mean this sincerely.
• 16:36
  There's a lot of stuff to come still.
• 16:38
  This is not going to be,
• 16:40
  let's call it easy
• 16:42
  after,
• 16:42
  after what we've seen here.
• 16:44
  Um,
• 16:44
  we had this,
• 16:45
  and we presented this to you a couple of weeks ago or whenever this started,
• 16:48
  I think,
• 16:48
  let's do I have the date on here?
• 16:50
  Uh,
• 16:50
  end of September.
• 16:51
  28 point proposal for peace in the Gaza Strip,
• 16:54
  ending
• 16:55
  Israel-Hamas war.
• 16:56
  This was
• 16:57
  the proposal from Donald Trump.
• 16:59
  How many of those are done?
• 17:01
  Is a good place to start today.
• 17:02
  Well,
• 17:03
  they're not exactly chronological.
• 17:05
  They don't,
• 17:06
  it doesn't start,
• 17:07
  you know,
• 17:07
  one is the first thing.
• 17:08
  I'll give a couple of these to you.
• 17:10
  Gaza will be a deradicalized,
• 17:11
  terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbors.
• 17:14
  I certainly don't think we can say that one's accomplished yet.
• 17:17
  That's more of a longer goal.
• 17:18
  Same with number 2,
• 17:19
  Gaza will be redeveloped for the people,
• 17:21
  the benefit of the people of Gaza who have suffered more than enough.
• 17:24
  There's talk and hope that that eventually happens,
• 17:27
  but obviously it hasn't happened
• 17:29
  quite yet.
• 17:30
  There are things that have happened in here,
• 17:32
  and let me go through the things that seemingly have checked off of this list.
• 17:35
  If both sides agree to this proposal.
• 17:37
  The war will immediately end.
• 17:38
  Israeli forces will withdraw to the agreed upon line
• 17:41
  to prepare for a hostage release.
• 17:43
  During this time,
• 17:44
  all military operations,
• 17:45
  including aerial and artillery bombardment,
• 17:48
  will be suspended,
• 17:49
  and battle lines will remain frozen until conditions are met
• 17:52
  for the complete staged withdrawal.
• 17:54
  I think we
• 17:55
  can check off at least a good chunk of that one.
• 17:57
  Number 4,
• 17:59
  within 72 hours of Israel publicly accepting this agreement,
• 18:02
  all hostages,
• 18:03
  alive and deceased,
• 18:04
  will be returned.
• 18:06
  We can basically say that's done.
• 18:07
  Now,
• 18:08
  the deceased,
• 18:08
  we,
• 18:08
  I don't,
• 18:09
  that's not
• 18:10
  there yet,
• 18:11
  um,
• 18:11
  but
• 18:12
  we think it's in process,
• 18:14
  you know,
• 18:14
  some people are saying,
• 18:14
  hey,
• 18:15
  we haven't seen all the remains yet.
• 18:17
  You know,
• 18:17
  look,
• 18:17
  I want the remains to be returned.
• 18:19
  It's important,
• 18:19
  particularly to
• 18:21
  Jewish culture and Israel in general,
• 18:23
  to get the remains back.
• 18:25
  However,
• 18:26
  obviously it's,
• 18:27
  you know,
• 18:28
  to my mind still secondary,
• 18:29
  of course,
• 18:29
  to the living hostages that have 100% been
• 18:33
  returned.
• 18:34
  Once all hostages are released,
• 18:35
  Israel will release 250 life sentence prisoners plus 1700 Gazans
• 18:39
  who were detained after October 7th,
• 18:41
  2023,
• 18:42
  including all women and children detained in that context.
• 18:44
  For every Israeli hostage who
• 18:46
  Remains,
• 18:47
  whose remains are released,
• 18:48
  Israel released the remains of 15 deceased Gazans.
• 18:51
  So like you get the idea here,
• 18:53
  this is typical of these arrangements,
• 18:54
  by the way.
• 18:55
  Israel gives up,
• 18:55
  you know,
• 18:56
  gets 20 people and gives up,
• 18:57
  you know,
• 18:58
  2000.
• 18:58
  It's like a 100 to 1 ratio typically in these
• 19:01
  types of arrangements,
• 19:02
  but
• 19:02
  that is pretty significant.
• 19:03
  Um,
• 19:04
  and,
• 19:04
  and those 3,
• 19:05
  I would say of the 20,
• 19:06
  you could say at least are
• 19:08
  close to being checked off.
• 19:10
  I mean Palestinians are complaining about not getting everything they wanted.
• 19:13
  Israel is going to complain about that as well,
• 19:15
  but.
• 19:15
  That's 3.
• 19:16
  There's a 20-piece
• 19:17
  process.
• 19:18
  I mean,
• 19:18
  let's see,
• 19:18
  how much of this is,
• 19:20
  uh,
• 19:20
  all of these are the other.
• 19:24
  All of these
• 19:26
  And the first two
• 19:28
  are not done.
• 19:29
  It's a tough road ahead,
• 19:30
  right?
• 19:31
  It's going to be difficult,
• 19:32
  and whether this gets across the finish line.
• 19:35
  As something bigger than just the hostages getting released,
• 19:38
  which is of course a big deal,
• 19:40
  if it's more than that,
• 19:41
  there's a lot of work to do,
• 19:42
  and that's OK,
• 19:43
  but it is important for all of us to realize that that's true.
• 19:47
  It is also OK,
• 19:48
  however,
• 19:48
  to step back and actually
• 19:51
  Just applaud an accomplishment.
• 19:53
  This is an amazing day.
• 19:54
  This is something that most people did not think could happen.
• 19:57
  Certainly,
• 19:58
  I went most of my life,
• 19:59
  uh,
• 19:59
  looking at Israel and Hamas and,
• 20:02
  you know,
• 20:02
  the Palestinians and thinking
• 20:04
  it's never going to be solved,
• 20:05
  unless,
• 20:05
  you know,
• 20:06
  God comes down from the heavens,
• 20:07
  this isn't going to happen.
• 20:09
  You know,
• 20:09
  miracles do happen though,
• 20:11
  and you always have to,
• 20:13
  um,
• 20:14
  allow
• 20:14
  for the possibility of a miracle.
• 20:16
  The hostages are back.
• 20:17
  It's a miracle.
• 20:18
  And this,
• 20:18
  and this is not something,
• 20:20
  this is something that actually happened.
• 20:21
  Well,
• 20:21
  you know,
• 20:21
  this isn't one of those things where,
• 20:23
  you know,
• 20:24
  every once in a while you have like a trade in the NBA
• 20:26
  where one player goes to the other team and then they're like,
• 20:28
  oh,
• 20:28
  he failed the physical,
• 20:29
  we're gonna reverse it and send them back.
• 20:30
  That doesn't happen in this.
• 20:32
  Right?
• 20:32
  Like if something gets screwed up later on,
• 20:34
  the Palestinians aren't like,
• 20:35
  all right,
• 20:35
  I guess I gotta go,
• 20:36
  or,
• 20:36
  excuse me,
• 20:36
  the,
• 20:36
  uh,
• 20:37
  the Israeli hostages aren't like,
• 20:38
  I,
• 20:38
  I guess I gotta go back to,
• 20:39
  to Gaza now.
• 20:40
  This thing didn't work out.
• 20:41
  This is done.
• 20:42
  It happened.
• 20:43
  They're home.
• 20:44
  They're hugging relatives,
• 20:45
  they're celebrating on social media.
• 20:46
  This is real.
• 20:47
  It's a real thing.
• 20:49
  And Donald Trump
• 20:50
  deserves a ton of credit.
• 20:52
  He also gave credit to people like Marco Rubio,
• 20:54
  Jared Kushner,
• 20:56
  Whitaker,
• 20:57
  all the people who were involved in this.
• 20:59
  But you know,
• 21:00
  Trump is the guy at the head of that,
• 21:01
  and if this guy screwed up,
• 21:02
  he deserves some blame for it.
• 21:04
  He deserves massive,
• 21:05
  massive credit
• 21:06
  here.
• 21:07
  The Palestinians,
• 21:08
  you know,
• 21:09
  will get back,
• 21:09
  as I mentioned,
• 21:10
  about 100 to 1 ratio.
• 21:12
  Some of these people will be really bad people.
• 21:15
  Some of these people will be people that
• 21:16
  will try to reconstitute terrorist attacks and groups
• 21:19
  to go back against Israel that we know,
• 21:22
  you know,
• 21:22
  Sinwar himself was one of these guys that was released from a
• 21:26
  previous situation years ago and then wound up becoming head of Hamas.
• 21:30
  These things are happening,
• 21:31
  you gotta,
• 21:31
  you gotta watch them.
• 21:32
  There's no reason to believe this is gonna be squeaky clean.
• 21:35
  We're gonna look back at this and say,
• 21:36
  wow,
• 21:36
  that went wrong and that went wrong and that went wrong,
• 21:38
  but at least there's a chance of things going right too,
• 21:41
  which is not where we were
• 21:42
  very recently.
• 21:43
  Um,
• 21:44
  Israel,
• 21:45
  Trump has handled Israel very well.
• 21:46
  I have no real notes here.
• 21:48
  Um,
• 21:48
  and the same thing goes for Israel.
• 21:50
  Israel could have many times,
• 21:52
  you know,
• 21:52
  done what every Democrat does and look for a,
• 21:54
  a,
• 21:55
  a reason to speak out and bash Donald Trump.
• 21:57
  They didn't do that.
• 21:58
  They said,
• 21:58
  let's make the,
• 21:59
  the,
• 22:00
  the real thing,
• 22:01
  the first thing,
• 22:01
  the first thing,
• 22:02
  right?
• 22:02
  Like.
• 22:03
  What's the priority here?
• 22:04
  It's protecting the people of Israel.
• 22:06
  We need Donald Trump,
• 22:06
  we need America on our side,
• 22:08
  and they were very careful with that relationship,
• 22:10
  and both sides,
• 22:11
  I think,
• 22:11
  managed it very,
• 22:12
  very well.
• 22:13
  This isn't just Trump bloviating.
• 22:15
  This is a real thing that happened.
• 22:16
  It is a massive accomplishment,
• 22:18
  no matter what the media tells you.
• 22:19
  This is a big deal.
• 22:21
  It's something that all presidents have tried to get done forever,
• 22:24
  and because of Trump's different approaches,
• 22:26
  he was able to get it across the finish line.
• 22:28
  This is gonna cement a big part of Trump's legacy going forward,
• 22:31
  but.
• 22:32
  You know,
• 22:33
  it's part of his legacy has always been the art of the deal,
• 22:35
  right?
• 22:35
  And the media told you from the beginning that the Art of the Deal was sort of a joke,
• 22:39
  right?
• 22:39
  Well,
• 22:40
  you know,
• 22:40
  it's not a joke to Israel.
• 22:42
  It's not a joke to those families.
• 22:44
  And I I don't think anybody can argue that it's a joke today.
• 22:47
  This is a big deal,
• 22:49
  and Donald Trump deserves a lot of credit for it.
• 23:03
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• 23:14
  Glenn,
• 23:14
  I mean,
• 23:14
  gosh,
• 23:15
  I don't even remember,
• 23:15
  15 years ago now,
• 23:16
  Glenn got really fed up with the sort of follower types,
• 23:19
  right?
• 23:19
  He doesn't,
• 23:20
  he wants the leaders.
• 23:21
  And he decided to do something about it,
• 23:23
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• 23:25
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• 24:01
  Joined now by Jason Buttrell,
• 24:02
  head writer and researcher for Glenn Beck,
• 24:04
  uh,
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  of course,
• 24:05
  the Glenn Beck program airs here on Blaze TV.
• 24:07
  Jason,
• 24:07
  thanks so much for coming on the program.
• 24:08
  You betcha.
• 24:09
  Um,
• 24:10
  big day.
• 24:11
  We just went through all of the latest developments,
• 24:13
  you know,
• 24:14
  went through a bunch of Trump's speech and everything else.
• 24:16
  Um,
• 24:17
  but like,
• 24:19
  think about the last 100 years,
• 24:22
  you know,
• 24:23
  I don't know where this thing turns out
• 24:25
  at the end,
• 24:26
  but like this is a pretty massive day.
• 24:28
  Uh,
• 24:28
  I mean,
• 24:29
  is it though?
• 24:29
  Didn't you see the Obamas or the Biden administration trying to take credit for it?
• 24:33
  like,
• 24:33
  oh,
• 24:33
  it's a good thing they just kept on with what we were already doing,
• 24:35
  you know,
• 24:36
  we could have,
• 24:36
  we could have had peace in the Middle East a long time ago.
• 24:39
  We said screw it and decided to just let it play out on its own.
• 24:42
  This is just like him trying to cure cancer,
• 24:43
  like,
• 24:44
  and obviously unfortunately you're finding out he was not able to do that.
• 24:47
  So ridiculous,
• 24:49
  uh,
• 24:49
  how
• 24:50
  they are trying to frame this now.
• 24:52
  Take any kind of credit whatsoever is just bizarre.
• 24:55
  Uh,
• 24:55
  it's unreal.
• 24:56
  But I mean,
• 24:57
  the way that the Trump administration was able
• 24:59
  to do this was completely just way out.
• 25:02
  They not only just,
• 25:04
  they not only,
• 25:04
  you know,
• 25:05
  looked for,
• 25:05
  you know,
• 25:06
  more fish in the barrel,
• 25:07
  they completely grabbed a new barrel and rewrote the way that they,
• 25:10
  uh,
• 25:11
  these things have been handled over the past forever,
• 25:13
  since the 40s,
• 25:14
  basically.
• 25:15
  Um,
• 25:16
  they cut out seemingly like before you would just go through like Qatar
• 25:20
  and have a bunch of shady dealings through the Qatari government,
• 25:23
  have them,
• 25:23
  you know,
• 25:24
  reach out to Hamas,
• 25:25
  do all these things.
• 25:26
  The Trump administration said screw that.
• 25:28
  They went to
• 25:29
  pretty much look like,
• 25:30
  you know,
• 25:31
  the foundation of the Abraham Accords and,
• 25:32
  and,
• 25:33
  you know,
• 25:33
  invited all those different nations to kind of play a part in this
• 25:37
  and
• 25:38
  having it,
• 25:39
  you know,
• 25:39
  signed and the appearance in Egypt was,
• 25:41
  I think,
• 25:42
  a really big step in this,
• 25:44
  um,
• 25:44
  showing that this is more about a coalition,
• 25:46
  a coalition of willing Arab partners.
• 25:49
  And I think that it,
• 25:51
  it speaks volumes towards,
• 25:53
  you know,
• 25:53
  the model that they're going towards in the future,
• 25:56
  specifically building upon the Abraham Accords.
• 25:58
  Now we look at it once they're kind of united
• 26:00
  in this common goal and it appears to be successful.
• 26:03
  Um,
• 26:04
  we're looking at who's going to join it next.
• 26:06
  Is it the Saudis?
• 26:07
  That would be the big one,
• 26:08
  that would be a huge one.
• 26:10
  If they can jump on board,
• 26:11
  we can get lots and lots more jumping on board.
• 26:13
  Who knows where this could go,
• 26:15
  and it's very exciting.
• 26:16
  Yeah,
• 26:17
  I mean it does feel like there's a real chance here,
• 26:19
  part of it is
• 26:20
  Trump is good at setting up these
• 26:22
  discussions and arrangements in ways that have.
• 26:25
  Sort of a predetermined outcome,
• 26:27
  you know,
• 26:27
  like he comes out and he announces,
• 26:28
  hey,
• 26:29
  me and Bibi just uh agreed here,
• 26:31
  me and us and Israel,
• 26:32
  we're in agreement,
• 26:32
  the,
• 26:33
  the deal's done.
• 26:33
  All we've got to do is wait for Hamas.
• 26:35
  He's like,
• 26:35
  well then all the pressure's on Hamas to actually
• 26:37
  come along.
• 26:38
  They had rejected
• 26:39
  proposal after proposal after proposal after proposal,
• 26:42
  and now they're like,
• 26:42
  uh,
• 26:43
  oh,
• 26:43
  I guess,
• 26:44
  yeah,
• 26:44
  well,
• 26:45
  like,
• 26:45
  OK,
• 26:45
  so they accept this thing.
• 26:47
  Um,
• 26:47
  the same thing I think is being set up with these uh Arab partners in that.
• 26:51
  Like
• 26:52
  if they come in and they're part of this overarching sort of government in Gaza,
• 26:57
  if Hamas or a Hamas offshoot winds up doing
• 27:00
  things that are bad and someone cracks down,
• 27:02
  it's not the Israelis,
• 27:04
  it's likely these Arab partners who are there trying to maintain peace,
• 27:08
  and it sets up a totally different dynamic.
• 27:10
  It's hard to blame the Jews if.
• 27:12
  You know,
• 27:12
  Egyptian troops are in the middle of cracking down on terrorists.
• 27:16
  It's a good change and could be a change that
• 27:18
  could benefit not only Israel but everybody in the region.
• 27:21
  Oh,
• 27:21
  for sure.
• 27:21
  And
• 27:23
  right now what we're looking at is exactly what you laid out,
• 27:25
  um,
• 27:26
  what happens next.
• 27:27
  The big one is the demilitarizing of Hamas specifically.
• 27:31
  Um,
• 27:32
  and not only that,
• 27:33
  but can these,
• 27:34
  you know,
• 27:34
  Arab partners,
• 27:35
  some of these other
• 27:36
  people that are going to be taking over security or overseeing it at least,
• 27:40
  can they do what is stated that they can do,
• 27:43
  which is oversee that demilitarization
• 27:46
  and make sure that,
• 27:47
  you know,
• 27:47
  more offshoots don't spring up,
• 27:49
  and you have,
• 27:50
  see,
• 27:50
  I remember.
• 27:52
  One of the craziest,
• 27:53
  uh,
• 27:53
  realizations that I've had,
• 27:54
  um,
• 27:55
  you know,
• 27:55
  and I've,
• 27:56
  and I've looked at,
• 27:57
  you know,
• 27:57
  these scenarios in the past in the Middle East,
• 27:59
  um,
• 27:59
  but one of the craziest ones I had was when I was actually in Iraq a few years ago,
• 28:04
  and I remember looking at some space,
• 28:06
  uh,
• 28:06
  with some Kurdish Peshmerga,
• 28:07
  and we were looking at like a,
• 28:09
  a de facto borderline that they had,
• 28:11
  they had,
• 28:12
  you know,
• 28:12
  built this,
• 28:13
  uh,
• 28:13
  big dirt berm,
• 28:15
  and it was kind of like.
• 28:17
  I guess kind of sealing off or showing Kurdistan,
• 28:19
  the northern Iraq Kurdistan area from the rest of Iraq,
• 28:23
  and I was like,
• 28:23
  why do you did you even put that there?
• 28:25
  and they said power vacuum and I was like,
• 28:27
  what do you mean power vacuum?
• 28:29
  And he goes,
• 28:30
  Well,
• 28:30
  now that ISIS is not there,
• 28:32
  we're now looking at all the different militias that are going to
• 28:35
  be rolling into this space and that are now going to be,
• 28:37
  you know,
• 28:38
  claiming it.
• 28:39
  They're the ones that we have to look out next.
• 28:41
  And they were like,
• 28:42
  this is the story of the Middle East.
• 28:43
  No matter where you're at in the Middle East,
• 28:45
  power vacuum will decide
• 28:47
  what happens here in the future,
• 28:49
  and it's going to happen.
• 28:50
  So right now what we're going to have in Gaza is a power vacuum,
• 28:53
  and we spoke about this before
• 28:55
  about all the different,
• 28:57
  you know,
• 28:57
  multiple different armed groups in Gaza that will now be vying to,
• 29:02
  you know,
• 29:03
  take up that mantle and fill that power vacuum.
• 29:07
  Uh,
• 29:07
  will it be Hamas still
• 29:09
  somehow trying to cling to power in a
• 29:12
  in an appeared demilitarized way.
• 29:14
  Um,
• 29:15
  will they go away?
• 29:16
  Will it be another group like Palestinian Islamic Jihad?
• 29:18
  Will it be another group of,
• 29:20
  you know,
• 29:20
  offshoot of multiple different people from the other groups coming together,
• 29:24
  forming something new,
• 29:25
  making it appear
• 29:26
  that it's,
• 29:27
  you know,
• 29:28
  you know,
• 29:29
  something a little bit more,
• 29:30
  I don't know,
• 29:31
  or something less scary,
• 29:32
  but we know what they want to do.
• 29:34
  Uh,
• 29:35
  that's what I'm looking at now.
• 29:37
  How will they manage this power vacuum.
• 29:39
  Uh,
• 29:40
  how can they keep,
• 29:41
  uh,
• 29:41
  Gaza from being a staging point for another attack on Israel later?
• 29:46
  Uh,
• 29:48
  very,
• 29:48
  very critical time right now if that can be managed,
• 29:51
  and as you said,
• 29:52
  you know,
• 29:53
  the way the Trump administration and the Israelis have kind of built this,
• 29:56
  it's now on,
• 29:58
  you know,
• 29:58
  these Arab partners,
• 29:59
  can they,
• 30:00
  you know,
• 30:00
  manage this,
• 30:01
  uh,
• 30:02
  if they want.
• 30:03
  Uh,
• 30:04
  you know,
• 30:04
  a larger piece in the region or,
• 30:06
  you know,
• 30:07
  at least a more cooperative,
• 30:09
  you know,
• 30:09
  region,
• 30:10
  uh,
• 30:11
  it,
• 30:11
  it's now on them to make sure that happens and they,
• 30:13
  and they have a lot of incentive to do it too.
• 30:15
  I mean they are completely locking Iran out of this
• 30:18
  totally,
• 30:19
  which is something that hasn't happened in decades in this region.
• 30:22
  Iran is being completely locked out of these decisions.
• 30:24
  That's great,
• 30:25
  awesome,
• 30:26
  yeah,
• 30:26
  um,
• 30:27
  I keep going back and,
• 30:29
  and thinking about this and,
• 30:30
  and,
• 30:30
  and how it's all developed and it is.
• 30:33
  Kind of a just a stunning
• 30:35
  turn of events,
• 30:36
  right?
• 30:36
  Like I,
• 30:36
  I,
• 30:36
  I don't know how long ago we would have
• 30:38
  thought this was really probably never going to happen.
• 30:42
  You have now this 20 piece
• 30:44
  plan.
• 30:45
  To be clear,
• 30:46
  this is one piece of it,
• 30:47
  right,
• 30:47
  and it's an early piece,
• 30:48
  but what's fascinating about this is Hamas really
• 30:51
  like something like them disarming or something like them not being able to govern,
• 30:54
  which is a,
• 30:55
  you know,
• 30:55
  a future part of the plan.
• 30:57
  They have no leverage to fight back against that
• 30:59
  stuff now because they've given up the hostages.
• 31:01
  This is great for the hostages,
• 31:02
  great for the families,
• 31:03
  but like,
• 31:03
  I don't know where this winds up going,
• 31:05
  and I do think that in this 20-step process,
• 31:07
  there's a lot of pitfalls and it may very well fail at some point
• 31:10
  during this process and something else might go wrong.
• 31:14
  But like what I keep coming back to is this,
• 31:15
  the,
• 31:16
  the hostages are actually home.
• 31:17
  This actually happened,
• 31:18
  like this is over,
• 31:19
  like they're not going to be brought back because another part of
• 31:22
  this negotiation fails or some other part of the deal fails.
• 31:24
  They're not going to have to go back to Gaza.
• 31:26
  This is it.
• 31:27
  It's this accomplishment is there and it's,
• 31:29
  it's,
• 31:29
  uh,
• 31:29
  you know,
• 31:29
  it's miraculous.
• 31:31
  Yeah,
• 31:31
  it really is and what a comparison.
• 31:33
  I,
• 31:33
  I,
• 31:33
  I,
• 31:34
  I,
• 31:34
  I think back to.
• 31:36
  Over the many decades when
• 31:38
  random US president would,
• 31:40
  you know,
• 31:40
  in a Hail Mary
• 31:42
  invite like Yasser Arafat to Camp David
• 31:45
  or something equivalent to that,
• 31:47
  and it would be hailed all over the world like,
• 31:49
  hey,
• 31:50
  they're talking,
• 31:50
  you know,
• 31:51
  he flew to Camp David,
• 31:52
  something might happen
• 31:53
  9 times out of 10 it wouldn't happen.
• 31:55
  Every once in a while something would come out of it.
• 31:58
  Usually Israel would get screwed in the deal,
• 32:00
  but Israel would give it up for you know,
• 32:02
  greater peace,
• 32:03
  uh,
• 32:03
  and stability.
• 32:05
  Now we actually have the start of a legit peace plan.
• 32:09
  Hostages have been
• 32:10
  turned over.
• 32:12
  Um,
• 32:13
  the violence has stopped,
• 32:15
  and they are on a path
• 32:17
  to something very,
• 32:18
  very
• 32:19
  exciting.
• 32:20
  And it's kind of hilarious that,
• 32:22
  you know,
• 32:22
  they're not giving it even more of the kudos than it deserves.
• 32:25
  So even I even saw,
• 32:26
  I actually saw Hillary Clinton,
• 32:28
  it must have been through her teeth saying,
• 32:29
  you know,
• 32:29
  I give it to the Trump administration for that was getting us this far.
• 32:33
  You should be able to do that.
• 32:34
  It should be easy in a moment.
• 32:35
  But how much did that hurt?
• 32:37
  You know it did.
• 32:38
  This is over like something very,
• 32:39
  very exciting.
• 32:40
  This is about peace in this area that we haven't had in a long time.
• 32:44
  Um,
• 32:45
  if this goes.
• 32:45
  Anywhere near Stu,
• 32:47
  and I said this with you before,
• 32:49
  anywhere near
• 32:50
  Palestinian statehood,
• 32:52
  I am going to lose
• 32:53
  my,
• 32:54
  can't be rewarded.
• 32:55
  There cannot be a reward.
• 32:56
  Can't be a reward for what they did on October 7th.
• 32:58
  0 my gosh,
• 32:59
  look,
• 32:59
  the,
• 32:59
  the people showed these pictures,
• 33:00
  like,
• 33:01
  look at this devastation.
• 33:02
  I think it was Leon Wolf who said,
• 33:04
  you know,
• 33:05
  starting a war and then losing it badly is not a genocide.
• 33:08
  That's you,
• 33:09
  you started this war.
• 33:11
  You lost it.
• 33:12
  It was really ugly.
• 33:14
  Yes,
• 33:14
  it's true.
• 33:15
  There's a lot of rubble,
• 33:16
  the debris,
• 33:17
  as Trump said,
• 33:17
  all over this,
• 33:18
  that,
• 33:18
  that is all true.
• 33:20
  It's also the appropriate response to what happened on October 7th in my mind.
• 33:24
  I don't want to,
• 33:25
  uh,
• 33:25
  leave though before,
• 33:26
  um,
• 33:27
  switching subjects a little bit
• 33:28
  on Antifa.
• 33:30
  They have been in the news quite a bit,
• 33:32
  potentially a terrorist group,
• 33:33
  uh,
• 33:34
  Trump,
• 33:34
  Trump has,
• 33:35
  you know,
• 33:35
  signed something to that,
• 33:36
  uh,
• 33:37
  to that effect,
• 33:38
  um.
• 33:39
  But you had a little bit of a visit with Glenn,
• 33:41
  uh,
• 33:42
  this weekend and a couple of FBI agents.
• 33:44
  What the heck happened?
• 33:46
  So we did a show last week,
• 33:48
  you know,
• 33:48
  we're
• 33:49
  making fun.
• 33:49
  There was a,
• 33:49
  there was a social media clip,
• 33:51
  I think this weekend where they were showing how
• 33:53
  on cue,
• 33:54
  almost as if they received a written notice,
• 33:56
  all the media personalities
• 33:57
  were saying this was a decentralized leaderless movement,
• 34:00
  all of them saying it.
• 34:02
  And we were kind of we were tracking that last week
• 34:03
  so we're like well let's just make a quick little case,
• 34:06
  you know,
• 34:06
  based off of just information that we know other open source information where
• 34:09
  we can easily debunk that and show that there is a network involved,
• 34:13
  um,
• 34:14
  well,
• 34:14
  yeah,
• 34:14
  the,
• 34:15
  the FBI was interested in that
• 34:17
  reached out to Glenn over the weekend.
• 34:18
  I was actually at the mall with my wife on a Saturday
• 34:22
  and,
• 34:22
  uh,
• 34:23
  on last Saturday,
• 34:24
  and then,
• 34:24
  uh,
• 34:25
  Glenn was like called me up and said,
• 34:27
  hey,
• 34:27
  um,
• 34:28
  do you think you can be here by 6?
• 34:29
  I was like,
• 34:30
  why?
• 34:30
  And he was like,
• 34:31
  uh,
• 34:32
  because the FBI is coming to talk about the show on Wednesday,
• 34:35
  I'll be there at 6.
• 34:38
  Stu,
• 34:38
  it was,
• 34:39
  it was a cool meeting.
• 34:40
  Uh,
• 34:41
  it,
• 34:41
  it was definitely,
• 34:42
  uh.
• 34:43
  It,
• 34:43
  it,
• 34:44
  it,
• 34:44
  it shows that the FBI and the DOG DOJ are being serious about
• 34:48
  looking into a lot of these networks and really turning on over,
• 34:51
  over,
• 34:52
  over every stone,
• 34:53
  not just looking at this as Antifa as like a leaderless,
• 34:57
  a leaderless or a decentralized group,
• 35:00
  but
• 35:00
  the possibilities that it might be a larger network,
• 35:03
  especially with funding.
• 35:04
  I've never
• 35:05
  one of the most surreal moments of my life,
• 35:07
  Stu,
• 35:08
  we have 3 FBI agents.
• 35:09
  They're sitting across from us.
• 35:11
  I'm,
• 35:11
  I'm sitting next to Glenn.
• 35:13
  And uh they asked about the Tides Foundation.
• 35:16
  Glenn goes off for like 15 minutes giving like a like it was like a monologue from back
• 35:22
  at Fox and just starts going through all the
• 35:24
  ins and outs describing what they're all about.
• 35:26
  I'm just staring at this and I'm like I cannot believe this if the FBI
• 35:29
  would have been this concerned or the
• 35:31
  administration been this concerned and actually being.
• 35:34
  You know,
• 35:35
  real
• 35:35
  about getting to the bottom of,
• 35:37
  you know,
• 35:37
  radical left wing violence,
• 35:39
  if they would have
• 35:40
  just done the same thing with Glenn back in 2010
• 35:43
  whenever he was talking about it,
• 35:45
  think about all the damage we could have stopped
• 35:48
  from then until now.
• 35:49
  It would have been a different country today.
• 35:52
  Uh,
• 35:52
  so overall,
• 35:53
  do you think
• 35:54
  it,
• 35:54
  it was a good thing like.
• 35:55
  Is this a positive that they're looking into it?
• 35:57
  I mean,
• 35:57
  because part of me says like,
• 35:58
  gosh,
• 35:59
  like I feel like when we're putting a show together,
• 36:01
  like we were,
• 36:02
  we're hoping to get FBI sources to tell us about how deep the networks are,
• 36:06
  the fact that they're asking questions of you guys,
• 36:08
  like,
• 36:09
  it's cool because it means you guys did a
• 36:10
  relevant show that has good information to it,
• 36:12
  but also like,
• 36:13
  isn't it concerning that the FBI is coming to us?
• 36:15
  Like it doesn't make any sense.
• 36:17
  I think what's concerning is the fact that
• 36:19
  before.
• 36:21
  You know,
• 36:21
  federal law enforcement or the government didn't even consider
• 36:24
  things like this.
• 36:25
  They,
• 36:26
  they,
• 36:26
  they,
• 36:26
  it's,
• 36:27
  it's,
• 36:27
  it's clear that,
• 36:28
  you know,
• 36:28
  during the Obama days,
• 36:29
  the Biden days,
• 36:31
  they clearly didn't
• 36:32
  give a crap.
• 36:33
  They could have give a crap,
• 36:34
  you know,
• 36:34
  and,
• 36:34
  and it's not surprising because those are some,
• 36:36
  a lot of those dark money.
• 36:37
  Networks
• 36:38
  um
• 36:39
  funded them as well,
• 36:40
  you know what I mean?
• 36:41
  So I mean
• 36:42
  it's concerning that they never had looked at that before,
• 36:45
  but what gives me hope is now there's clearly a new sheriff in town
• 36:49
  they're clearly willing and and interested in
• 36:53
  going,
• 36:54
  you know,
• 36:55
  after every single person that might be involved in these groups,
• 36:58
  and I,
• 36:59
  I don't know if they'll find anything.
• 37:00
  Um,
• 37:01
  it's,
• 37:02
  it's possible that,
• 37:02
  you know,
• 37:03
  it leads to a lot of dead ends,
• 37:04
  but at least now they're looking for,
• 37:06
  you know,
• 37:06
  light in those dead ends,
• 37:07
  and they're going after it.
• 37:08
  So I,
• 37:09
  I'm,
• 37:09
  I'm very,
• 37:09
  very,
• 37:10
  I'm very hopeful for what the future might bring.
• 37:12
  That's good.
• 37:13
  That's good news.
• 37:14
  Uh,
• 37:14
  it's good.
• 37:14
  We get,
• 37:15
  we give it occasionally.
• 37:16
  There's occasionally good news on this program.
• 37:17
  Uh,
• 37:17
  Jason Buttrell,
• 37:18
  head writer and researcher for Glenn Beck,
• 37:20
  uh,
• 37:20
  uh,
• 37:21
  and apparently,
• 37:22
  uh,
• 37:23
  FBI witness.
• 37:24
  I don't,
• 37:24
  I don't know.
• 37:26
  Appreciate you coming on,
• 37:26
  Jason.
• 37:26
  Consultant,
• 37:27
  yeah,
• 37:27
  consultant.
• 37:27
  There you go.
• 37:28
  You bet.
• 37:37
  Noted Russian asset Donald Trump is in the news again.
• 37:41
  He is warning Russia that he may send Ukraine long
• 37:44
  range tomahawks if Moscow doesn't settle the war soon.
• 37:48
  It's an interesting approach
• 37:50
  from a guy who's dedicated to Vladimir Putin
• 37:53
  as his main goal in life,
• 37:54
  but.
• 37:55
  First of all,
• 37:56
  he hasn't done it yet,
• 37:56
  so maybe he won't.
• 37:58
  It does seem though that there is a change in tone,
• 38:00
  and this is one of the things that you know
• 38:01
  kind of follows up on our conversation on Israel today.
• 38:04
  One of the reasons why Donald Trump is able to get this
• 38:06
  stuff done is he comes at it from a totally different way,
• 38:09
  and
• 38:09
  that doesn't always work,
• 38:10
  it's not always the best thing to do,
• 38:12
  frankly,
• 38:13
  like,
• 38:13
  I,
• 38:13
  you know,
• 38:13
  uh,
• 38:14
  sometimes it doesn't work,
• 38:15
  and sometimes it gives you bad results.
• 38:17
  I'll give you an example,
• 38:18
  uh if you don't believe me,
• 38:19
  that I would criticize him on something like this.
• 38:21
  Like I think the way he treated Canada over the past year has been
• 38:25
  rough,
• 38:26
  and I think it led to a bad outcome.
• 38:27
  I think he gave an election to a a radical left-wing nut job
• 38:32
  that could have gone to someone sane.
• 38:34
  Because
• 38:35
  of the way he stirred things up in Canada,
• 38:37
  so it's not always great.
• 38:39
  Israel is a really good version of it,
• 38:41
  and you know I think
• 38:43
  the Russian-Ukraine thing is tough because a lot of people will tell you,
• 38:45
  well,
• 38:45
  it's not going to work with Russia.
• 38:46
  They're not going to go along with this,
• 38:48
  and it might be true,
• 38:49
  but as I've said for a while here,
• 38:51
  I think.
• 38:53
  The fact that we can create an opportunity for something good to happen
• 38:58
  is sometimes worth just giving it a shot.
• 39:00
  I mean,
• 39:00
  what have we lost,
• 39:01
  you know,
• 39:02
  when it comes to his approach
• 39:04
  with Russia?
• 39:05
  He could have been harder on Russia.
• 39:06
  He could have been nicer to Russia and harder on Ukraine.
• 39:09
  He could have
• 39:09
  changed his formula.
• 39:11
  I think he's tried both ways.
• 39:12
  It seems like right now he's saying,
• 39:13
  look.
• 39:14
  The problem here is not Zelensky right now.
• 39:16
  It seems like the problem is Putin,
• 39:18
  and he's now much more critical of Putin and starting to push more in that direction.
• 39:21
  We'll see how that goes
• 39:23
  after sort of the afterglow of Israel
• 39:25
  fades a little bit.
• 39:26
  We also have new information from Jasmine Crockett.
• 39:29
  She's in the polls.
• 39:30
  Um,
• 39:31
  let me give you a couple of quick polls here,
• 39:33
  uh,
• 39:33
  for the Texas Senate primaries for 2026.
• 39:36
  Uh,
• 39:36
  leading the race is Paxton with 34%,
• 39:39
  Cornyn in 2nd,
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  33%.
• 39:41
  That's
• 39:41
  too close for comfort,
• 39:42
  frankly,
• 39:43
  uh,
• 39:43
  in that race.
• 39:44
  Um,
• 39:44
  Wesley Hunt is third
• 39:46
  at 22%.
• 39:47
  I think all three of them would win
• 39:49
  against the Democratic opponent,
• 39:51
  which is why I'm very excited about the Democratic side of this poll,
• 39:54
  which has Jasmine Crockett leading.
• 39:56
  Now she's not officially in the race yet,
• 39:58
  but she's got 31% of the vote.
• 40:00
  Beto O'Rourke and Tallarico are at 30 or 25%,
• 40:04
  and the guy that we were told was the secret genius is that.
• 40:08
  13%,
• 40:09
  Colin Allred,
• 40:10
  it doesn't seem like anyone wants him
• 40:12
  involved.
• 40:12
  Uh,
• 40:12
  but
• 40:13
  I mean,
• 40:13
  why wouldn't you vote for Jasmine Crockett like after you see
• 40:16
  an incredible piece of wisdom,
• 40:18
  uh,
• 40:18
  like this.
• 40:19
  I cast my no vote
• 40:20
  because ain't nobody come at me and ask me what the people in my district need.
• 40:24
  They didn't ask me what would look good for those in South Dallas.
• 40:28
  They didn't ask me.
• 40:29
  About that.
• 40:30
  So listen,
• 40:31
  I got people that I serve
• 40:32
  that are counting on me to do their work and to be their voice and not work for him.
• 40:37
  I don't work for him.
• 40:37
  He can't hire me.
• 40:38
  He can't fire me.
• 40:39
  The people that elected me in Texas 30 did.
• 40:42
  So unless you wanna have a conversation with me
• 40:44
  about the priorities for the people in my district,
• 40:47
  baby,
• 40:47
  you're not getting this vote.
• 40:49
  So listen.
• 40:50
  He can do whatever he wants to do,
• 40:52
  but this will be on the Republicans.
• 40:54
  I need people to tune in
• 40:56
  and learn how to count
• 40:57
  and learn who controls what.
• 40:59
  If you want things to function,
• 41:01
  maybe put the Democrats back in control.
• 41:03
  Now,
• 41:03
  I know people got beef with the Democrats not
• 41:05
  being as aggressive as we should have been,
• 41:07
  especially since we got him over here just
• 41:09
  running ramshop over everything.
• 41:12
  But at a very minimum,
• 41:13
  you can always count
• 41:15
  on there being levelheadedness
• 41:17
  and responsibility
• 41:18
  when it comes to Democrats because they care about federal workers,
• 41:22
  they care about our constituents and making sure that those
• 41:25
  services are still available because when the government shuts down,
• 41:28
  then that impacts our constituents directly,
• 41:30
  it does.
• 41:32
  Uh,
• 41:33
  I don't know if after that rant you want to be talking about levelheadedness.
• 41:37
  I don't know if that's the exact appropriate time for that,
• 41:40
  um,
• 41:40
  but I will say I totally agree with the sentence.
• 41:43
  I cast my no vote because ain't nobody coming in me.
• 41:48
  I mean,
• 41:48
  I don't,
• 41:48
  I don't think you can deny that.
• 41:49
  Uh,
• 41:49
  finally,
• 41:50
  last,
• 41:50
  uh,
• 41:50
  piece that we have Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are together.
• 41:54
  Uh,
• 41:54
  of course,
• 41:55
  100% organic news release.
• 41:56
  This was definitely not,
• 41:58
  uh,
• 41:58
  these pictures that are taken from a distance,
• 42:01
  definitely not.
• 42:02
  They didn't know this was coming at all.
• 42:04
  They definitely not,
• 42:05
  uh,
• 42:06
  you know.
• 42:07
  Uh,
• 42:07
  completely leaked to the media intentionally.
• 42:09
  Um,
• 42:10
  she goes from,
• 42:10
  uh,
• 42:11
  what was the elf in the Lord of the Rings,
• 42:13
  uh,
• 42:13
  to,
• 42:14
  um,
• 42:15
  to the Canadian Prime Minister.
• 42:16
  Is that a step up or step down?
• 42:18
  I,
• 42:18
  I would say it's a step down.
• 42:20
  I mean,
• 42:20
  I don't know.
• 42:21
  Can we,
• 42:21
  uh,
• 42:21
  can we look at the headline again?
• 42:22
  Cause I'm not sure if I can tell from that distance with the telephoto lens
• 42:27
  whether,
• 42:27
  uh,
• 42:28
  he was wearing
• 42:29
  blackface or not on the date.
• 42:32
  Uh,
• 42:32
  but,
• 42:32
  uh,
• 42:33
  really happy for them and,
• 42:34
  uh,
• 42:35
  certainly will be another fruitful relationship for Katy Perry.
• 42:38
  Back in a second.
• 42:50
  OK,
• 42:51
  so here's what happened.
• 42:52
  You know,
• 42:52
  a lot of people,
• 42:53
  uh,
• 42:53
  know the truth,
• 42:54
  which is,
• 42:55
  of course,
• 42:55
  everything natural is always better than anything man-made.
• 42:58
  This is why I'm sitting to you in an air conditioned studio,
• 43:01
  um.
• 43:03
  Forget I mentioned that,
• 43:04
  but I,
• 43:05
  I should point out that if you're ever sick,
• 43:07
  obviously the answer is always a natural solution.
• 43:10
  You know,
• 43:10
  ancient Chinese secret,
• 43:11
  right?
• 43:11
  You go to that,
• 43:13
  most of the time,
• 43:14
  at least,
• 43:14
  a Chinese woman has swallowed 8 live frogs to ease her back pain.
• 43:18
  You're gonna be shocked to hear.
• 43:21
  She should have gone Advil instead,
• 43:22
  I would say,
• 43:23
  it didn't work out very well.
• 43:24
  Some digestive problems.
• 43:26
  Look,
• 43:26
  you're an idiot
• 43:27
  if you swallow 8 live frogs,
• 43:29
  I wouldn't go over 5.
• 43:31
  At least,
• 43:31
  uh,
• 43:31
  well,
• 43:32
  I mean,
• 43:32
  at least not in one day.
• 43:34
  I mean,
• 43:34
  come on,
• 43:34
  in a week,
• 43:35
  sure.