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Election Disaster: Wipeouts in VA, NJ & NYC plus Ben on the ground in Israel · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome. It is Verdict with Center, Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson
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Speaker 1: with you. It is election night in America. I am
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Speaker 1: in Israel right now. It's about six fourteen in the
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Speaker 1: morning in Israel. I don't even know what time it
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Speaker 1: is in Washington, d C. Right now. That's how jetlagged
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Speaker 1: I am. And we are doing a joint podcast today
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Speaker 1: with Verdict with Ted Cruz, my show, the Ben Ferguson
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Speaker 1: podcasts as well, to cover everything going on with the
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Speaker 1: election and also some incredible moments in Israel. Center. It
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Speaker 1: is official New York is turning red, communist red. The
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Speaker 1: big red Apple is now a communist red apple. Let's
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Speaker 1: start with that.
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Speaker 2: Well, listen, it is eleven to fourteen pm in Washington,
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Speaker 2: D C. And then I got to say tonight was
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Speaker 2: a terrible night for Republicans. It was a terrible night
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Speaker 2: for conservatives, and it was a terrible night for America.
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Speaker 2: the damage in New Jersey, the damage in California has
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Speaker 2: been enormous. We're going to break down this really disappointing
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Speaker 2: and dangerous electoral result that happened tonight. We're also going
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Speaker 2: to talk about the fact that Ben is on the
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Speaker 2: ground in Israel. What is he seeing, who is he
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Speaker 2: meeting with? What is the dynamic. Israel has just won
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Speaker 2: a war. They have just defeated Iran in a twelve
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Speaker 2: day war. They are still battling Hamas. There's an historic
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Speaker 2: peace steel that President Trump has negotiated, but Hamas is
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Speaker 2: resisting and violating the peace steel. We're going to talk
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Speaker 1: to watch this on YouTube, as we're also putting this
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Speaker 1: up on YouTube. This episode. I am in Israel. This
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Speaker 1: is my first time. So I've had five trips planned
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Speaker 1: to come to Israel. The first four got canceled, one
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Speaker 1: from COVID, the other three because of wars that had
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Speaker 1: broken out. This dates back all the way in two
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Speaker 1: thousand and four, thousand and five and the first time
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Speaker 1: I'm supposed to go to Israel, and I cannot tell
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Speaker 1: you you've been here. Just being able to do simple
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Speaker 1: things like going to the Whaling Wall, staying here in
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Speaker 1: Jerusalem have been a spiritual journey that I would tell
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Speaker 1: everyone listening to verdict right now it is safe to
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Speaker 1: come to Israel right now. That is the one thing
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Speaker 1: that's very clear from the ceasefire. There are lots of
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Speaker 1: people coming back to see this incredible country. But if
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Speaker 1: you are a person of faith and you've experienced this,
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Speaker 1: coming to Israel connects so many dots. I was at
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Speaker 1: the Sea of Galilee yesterday and getting to witness a
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Speaker 1: historians and religious leaders were telling the stories of the Bible,
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Speaker 1: where it was the Beatitudes, where there was walking on water,
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Speaker 1: whether it was the fish that continued to feed, seeing
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Speaker 1: the miracles of Jesus before your very eyes, overlooking this
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Speaker 1: incredible country, while at the same time being moments away
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Speaker 1: from where this war was taking place and people are
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Speaker 1: being killed. Was a somber but special moment.
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Speaker 2: So, Ben, have you been to Israel before? Is this
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Speaker 2: first trip?
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Speaker 1: This is my pilgrimage very first time ever?
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Speaker 2: Well, it is amazing. I've been a number of times
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Speaker 2: is and it is a breathtaking place. It is a
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Speaker 2: place all of history converges on. It is the birthplace
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Speaker 2: of Christianity, is the birthplace of Judaism. In Israel and Jerusalem.
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Speaker 2: You walk down roads the city of David, which is
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Speaker 2: this underground archaeological excavation under Jerusalem. You walk down the
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Speaker 2: road from from the Pool of Shiloh to the old
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Speaker 2: Temple where Jesus most certainly walked, and you walk along
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Speaker 2: it and there are platforms that a street preacher and
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Speaker 2: itinerant preacher would stand and preach on, and you stand.
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Speaker 2: I've stood on those platforms, and it takes your breath
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Speaker 2: away that Jesus Christ almost certainly stood on this particular
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Speaker 2: piece of stone addressing the crowd of the Israelites who
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Speaker 2: were there in Jerusalem, the Sea of Galilee. You look
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Speaker 2: at you imagine Jesus walking up to to Peter, walking
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Speaker 2: up to fishermen and saying follow me and let me
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Speaker 2: make you fishers of men and not just fishermen. And
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Speaker 2: it is it's a beautiful place. It is a profound place.
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Speaker 2: So tell me when did you arrive and what have
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Speaker 2: you done on the ground at Israel.
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Speaker 1: So arrived on Monday after delayed flight missed missed a
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Speaker 1: flight because of actually the shutdown is what we're told
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Speaker 1: with And then we had a time out with with
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Speaker 1: with the with the air traffic controllers and also the
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Speaker 1: crew on the plane. So we sat on the tarmac
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Speaker 1: for about five hours in Houston and then they said
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Speaker 1: you got to get the plane. We've lost our crew
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Speaker 1: because of the rules. And this is a TSA. And
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Speaker 1: it was at the very beginning of kind of the break.
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Speaker 2: Are you part of a broader group or like, what
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Speaker 2: what's the reason for going to Israel?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So I was asked to come over from the
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Speaker 1: Israeli government and also came with the CEO of i
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Speaker 1: f CJ, the International Fellowship of Christian Jews. There is
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Speaker 1: a a Christian Leadership conference happening here as well at
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Speaker 1: the same time. That is, it is one that's been
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Speaker 1: postponed because of the war and so I was asked
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Speaker 1: to speak at that. This is a conference where bb
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Speaker 1: is speaking, where you have the Mayor of Jerusalem is speaking,
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Speaker 1: you have the US ambassador Mikuckabee as well, and it
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Speaker 1: is bringing Christians together back to the to the Holy Land.
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Speaker 1: But then what also has happens. They've set up these
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Speaker 1: incredible moments and tours where I've been able to meet
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Speaker 1: with some of the victims of the war and go
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Speaker 1: and see where the war is taking placed. So yesterday
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Speaker 1: we actually went to the border with Syria and with
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Speaker 1: Lebanon and went literally to where we could see Hesblah
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Speaker 1: looking at us.
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Speaker 2: And we met with the parents of the kids who
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Speaker 2: were killed on the soccer field. Tell us about that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So last night I have and I will try
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Speaker 1: not to get emotional, but it's hard not to. I
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Speaker 1: was asked to come and to meet with the families,
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Speaker 1: some of the families who children. There was twelve children
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Speaker 1: that were killed while playing soccer on a soccer field.
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Speaker 1: It made international news. We covered it on this show,
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Speaker 1: and they asked me if I would meet with the
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Speaker 1: families and hear the family stories. And I was there
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Speaker 1: and the parents were talking of this was one of
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Speaker 1: the little girls. You can see who died and her
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Speaker 1: mother was the first one to speak, and she was
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Speaker 1: the age of the kids wanted to tell the story.
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Speaker 1: They were all different ages. They were very young to
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Speaker 1: a seventeen year old if I remember correctly. Some of
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Speaker 1: it was through translation, but you can kind of see
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Speaker 1: the different ages here. Some of them are obviously most
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Speaker 1: were younger, but you can see there someone's a little
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Speaker 1: bit older and junior high. You can see that's one
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Speaker 1: of the oldest kids there. And and that was you know,
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Speaker 1: it's it's incredible. But we sat there and we were
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Speaker 1: hearing their stories, these kids, and at the very end,
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Speaker 1: they said they'd like to present me with things. I
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Speaker 1: didn't know they were going to do this, and I
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Speaker 1: put the picture of on social media, but the mother
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Speaker 1: of this young girl said that they wanted to give
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Speaker 1: me something. And I did see the ball before they
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Speaker 1: brought it out, but these pictures on this ball, so
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Speaker 1: people understand their stickers, they're handmade. And they said they
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Speaker 1: wanted to say thank you for standing up for their
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Speaker 1: kids and for telling their story to the world, because
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Speaker 1: they they want people to understand what it's like to
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Speaker 1: live in Israel and what was taken from them.
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Speaker 2: From by the way, these were children that were doing nothing.
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Speaker 2: They were they were playing on a soccer field. There
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Speaker 2: were being kids and suddenly Hesbala rocket came over and
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Speaker 2: killed them all.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it was a the way that they described
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Speaker 1: it was they didn't care who they killed. There was
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Speaker 1: there was a lot of media spend that well, this
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Speaker 1: this soccer field maybe wasn't directly target. Hesbla doesn't care
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Speaker 1: who they killed. They just want to kill Jews, one
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Speaker 1: of the.
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Speaker 2: Other and one of the points men. That's important with
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Speaker 2: both Hesbela and Hamas. Most of the rockets they fire
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Speaker 2: have no guidance systems, so they literally a fire rocket
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Speaker 2: in the air towards Israel, filled with explosives, many times
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Speaker 2: filled with anti personnel shrapnel, ball bearings and nails and
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Speaker 2: screws and things that would rip human flesh apart, and
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Speaker 2: they just fire them towards Israel because they figure, you
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Speaker 2: know what, they're Jews over there, so let's just kill
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Speaker 2: as many of them as we can, and whether it
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Speaker 2: kills little kids. Normally, in the vast majority of the times,
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Speaker 2: military targets are not the targets. It's just fire it
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Speaker 2: towards Israel and if we killed Jews, we celebrate. And
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Speaker 2: that tragically is what happened at the soccer field.
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Speaker 1: It's exactly what happened. And not far from where that
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Speaker 1: soccer field attack happened, we went to an orchard. What's
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Speaker 1: one thing that you learn so much from being here,
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Speaker 1: But there is a lot of farming that has done
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Speaker 1: in Israel. Israel does an amazing job with water and
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Speaker 1: turning saltwater into fresh water. It is what is kept
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Speaker 1: this country alive and not dependent on others, especially in
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Speaker 1: war when people would shut off water to Israel. It's
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Speaker 1: the desert and what they've done is unbelievable. We talked
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Speaker 1: about that, learned about that, but we went to a
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Speaker 1: basically a kabutz. It's a neighborhood. And in that neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: you know what they you know what they.
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Speaker 2: In Northern Israel, southern Israel, where the where's the kabuts?
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Speaker 1: You went to the tip of northern on the opposite
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Speaker 1: side of where the attack happened. The initial attack happened
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Speaker 1: in October.
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Speaker 2: This okay, so right by the Golong border.
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Speaker 1: With Lebedon and Hesbelah. So if you're looking at the map,
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Speaker 1: this would be in Syria hes Blah at the northern point,
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Speaker 1: and they started us there because they said they wanted
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Speaker 1: us to understand that the gold and by the way,
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Speaker 1: for folks from both sides, for.
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Speaker 2: Folks at home to understand. So Israel is a very
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Speaker 2: small nation. It's about the size of the state of
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Speaker 2: New Jersey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Where October seventh happened was in the southern part of Israel.
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Speaker 2: It's right by the Gaza Strip. The Gaza Strip is
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Speaker 2: along the Mediterranean in the southern part. And Hamas, which
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Speaker 2: is the terrorist major terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip,
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Speaker 2: entered into southern Israel and murdered over twelve hundred Israelis,
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Speaker 2: aped women and little girls, took over two hundred Israelis hostage.
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Speaker 2: It was also one of the worst American terrorist attacks ever,
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Speaker 2: as we saw dozens of Americans murdered, dozens of Americans
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Speaker 2: taken hostage. Now northern Israel, which is up by Lebanon
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Speaker 2: and Syria, what you have up there is Hesbela, hesbel As,
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Speaker 2: a different terrorist organization. Both Hesbela and Hamas their patron
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Speaker 2: is Iran, and Iran funds over ninety percent of Hamas's budget.
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Speaker 2: Iran funds over ninety percent of Hesbel's budget. When October
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Speaker 2: seventh first erupted, Israel quite rightly declared we are going
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Speaker 2: to utterly destroy Hamas. There was an interesting period that
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Speaker 2: extended for weeks and then even a couple of months
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Speaker 2: where it wasn't clear if Hamas would be or rather
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Speaker 2: Hesbela would be drawn into this. Hamas was the restaurant
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Speaker 2: October seventh, and Hesbela had the opportunity just to shut
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Speaker 2: up and not engage, and then Hesbela pretty quickly decided, no,
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Speaker 2: we want to raise our hand, we want to engage,
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Speaker 2: and began just just firing rockets, a massive barrage of
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Speaker 2: rockets in northern Israel.
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Speaker 1: About sixty percent of all the rockets on hand that
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Speaker 1: Hesbla had in their arsenal were shot during this war.
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Speaker 2: Repeat that, that's a powerful.
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Speaker 1: Statement, sixty percent. And as we had our briefing from
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Speaker 1: the Israeli government, we actually went to this neighborhood, this kibbutz,
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Speaker 1: and in this neighborhood, their sin for being targeted by
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Speaker 1: Hesbla was that they that they farm pink lady apples
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Speaker 1: that we eat in the United States of America.
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Speaker 2: And by the way, much of northern Israel was evacuated
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Speaker 2: because the rocket attacks were so intense that the Israelis
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Speaker 2: couldn't live there anymore, because you couldn't go into your
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Speaker 2: own home without risk of rock blowing it up.
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Speaker 1: And so the.
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Speaker 2: Amazing thing is Hesbla literally volunteered and said, hey, we
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Speaker 2: want to be part of this, and then the Israelis
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Speaker 2: carried out the Pager attack, which remained means one of
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Speaker 2: the most extraordinatory military and intelligence operations I think the
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Speaker 2: world has ever seen. Where I mean, I've joked, but
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Speaker 2: this is not a joke. If you wrote the Pager
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Speaker 2: Attack as a script to a movie, nobody in Hollywood
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Speaker 2: would buy it. If you wrote it as a Jason
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Speaker 2: Bourne movie, they say, this is ridiculous. You're telling me.
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Speaker 2: Israel creates a shell company in Hong Kong.
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Speaker 1: Builds pagers advanced.
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Speaker 2: Years in advance, makes them heavy duty, kind of serious,
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Speaker 2: hardcore pagers and in beds where the battery would be
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Speaker 2: a tiny little explosive. Then gets this shell company in
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Speaker 2: Hong Kong to sell the pagers to Hesbela, Like, how
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Speaker 2: the hell do you do that? I don't know how
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Speaker 2: you sell pagers to Hesbela, but the Masad does, Israel
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Speaker 2: does sells them to Hesbela, and then this remains the
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Speaker 2: single most targeted military and intelligence attack I think in history,
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Speaker 2: because it was Hesbela leadership that decided, Okay, who is
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Speaker 2: it that gets these pagers? I'm going to give it
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Speaker 2: to every crazy ass terrorist we have in lemanon the
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Speaker 2: people that I want to be able to page and say, hey,
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Speaker 2: would you go blow up a bus, would you go
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Speaker 2: blow up at a mall? Would you go murder children?
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Speaker 2: Take this pager? And then Israel in a simultaneous moment,
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Speaker 2: detonated all the pagers and took out every person that
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Speaker 2: was injured, every person that was killed, with very minor
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Speaker 2: exceptions of someone who was really close to a terrorist.
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Speaker 2: They were personally selected by the leaders of Hesbela. Hesbela
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Speaker 2: decided which terrorists died. And by the way, within a
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Speaker 2: day or two there was a second operation where Hesbela
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Speaker 2: was using walkie talkies. Those blow up and I say, yeah,
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Speaker 2: by the end of it, I think every Hesbela terrorist,
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Speaker 2: every Hamaster, every Iran IRGC terrorist, like every time a
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Speaker 2: phone rang, they jumped. It was extraordinary and it was
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Speaker 2: a response to so what Hesbila literally volunteered and said
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Speaker 2: we want to be decimated as bad as as Amas,
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Speaker 2: and Israel said, well, happy to oblige.
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Speaker 1: back to this neighborhood. And as we went into this neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: not returned. Some of the farmers are coming there to farm.
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Speaker 1: But Hesbelon knew the houses that they were blowing up
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Speaker 1: in this neighborhood were farmers. They knew that they were families.
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Speaker 1: And what they did would to justify their attacks early
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Speaker 1: on was when the people had fled, the Israeli military
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Speaker 1: would take back in to the husband of the home
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Speaker 1: to go get some of their belongings before they would
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Speaker 1: flee again, and they justified the military walking in the
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Speaker 1: house is the reason to blow the house up. And
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Speaker 1: so I met with a farmer who had three children
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Speaker 1: the exact same age as my kids. Wow, and he
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Speaker 1: was showing us his neighborhood and he was talking about
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Speaker 1: how I had to come back to tend the fields
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Speaker 1: because this is my home and I was literally under
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Speaker 1: rocket barrage and would come to work knowing that Hezblah
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Speaker 1: was targeting the houses. And so finally after a few
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Speaker 1: days that the homeowners said to the military, don't go
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Speaker 1: back into my house, because as soon as you go
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Speaker 1: in there, they blow up my home and everything is destroyed.
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Speaker 1: We went into a home. The books of the children
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Speaker 1: were still there, the stove was still there the way
19:40
Speaker 1: it was set. That morning, the one of the homeowners
19:43
Speaker 1: offered me a piece of a broken pot of their
19:46
Speaker 1: home and a burner of the stove and said take
19:51
Speaker 1: it back, and a piece of their tile in their
19:53
Speaker 1: children's bathroom. I'll put it on my desk for the
19:56
Speaker 1: rest of my life. But to hear them talk about
20:00
Speaker 1: the brutality of Hesbla, knowing that you're blowing up a
20:03
Speaker 1: farmer's home who has never bothered you in your entire
20:07
Speaker 1: life for sport. It was just for sport at that point,
20:10
Speaker 1: it was even killing a person pure They knew that
20:13
Speaker 1: they were, yeah, just pure sport and hatred, like we're
20:17
Speaker 1: going to blow up your neighborhood because you are Jewish.
20:21
Speaker 1: We know you're not there, we know you have fled,
20:24
Speaker 1: but we want you to come back to destruction in ruins.
20:27
Speaker 2: And so you've been in northern Israel. Have you been
20:30
Speaker 2: in Tel Aviv? Have you been in Jerusalem? Where else
20:32
Speaker 2: have you been been in?
20:34
Speaker 1: So? Been in Tel Aviv as well, which is an
20:37
Speaker 1: incredible city. I didn't realize how much it's like New
20:40
Speaker 1: York City or a major It's a very modern life city, thriving,
20:45
Speaker 1: modern city. A lot of technology out of out of
20:47
Speaker 1: there that is actually exported to the rest of the world.
20:49
Speaker 1: It's incredible the minds of the brilliant minds that are
20:53
Speaker 1: working in tel Aviv. I'm staying in Jerusalem. I do
20:58
Speaker 1: want to say. One other things I know is.
20:59
Speaker 2: That where you are Alice, Jerusalem? Are you at the
21:01
Speaker 2: King David Hotel?
21:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm in Jerusalem. I met not the King David.
21:05
Speaker 1: I'm at the it starts with an A. I can't
21:07
Speaker 1: remember the name. I'd have to look around the room
21:08
Speaker 1: and find it. But it's right at the entrance of
21:12
Speaker 1: the of the markets here, and it's a beautiful market.
21:15
Speaker 1: That they have built this city to try to revive
21:17
Speaker 1: Jerusalem and make it even more for tourists. It's incredible.
21:21
Speaker 1: The people here are so kind. But one other thing
21:23
Speaker 1: I want to mention about this trip so far is
21:25
Speaker 1: I met with the mother of one of the hostages
21:29
Speaker 1: that was taken that became unfortunately, she became famous. If
21:33
Speaker 1: you remember the videos that came out, there is a
21:35
Speaker 1: girl that's been separated from her boyfriend. She is in
21:38
Speaker 1: between two terrasts on a motorcycle and she's reaching out
21:43
Speaker 1: and screaming for her boyfriend who is being held with
21:46
Speaker 1: his arms and minds back by two terrasts and they're
21:48
Speaker 1: separating them. And that video just went viral early on
21:52
Speaker 1: in the moments after he was held underground for two
21:56
Speaker 1: years without seeing sunlight and was star he was returned.
22:01
Speaker 1: They just re reunited. You may have seen that video
22:04
Speaker 1: of them in the hospital finally getting to see each
22:06
Speaker 1: other again and hugging and falling backwards as they hug
22:09
Speaker 1: on the hospital bed, and the mother was telling the
22:12
Speaker 1: story of her son and the trauma, the way that
22:17
Speaker 1: they were mentally tortured and lied to, that there was
22:20
Speaker 1: destruction of all of Israel, been destroyed, That they were
22:24
Speaker 1: told that their loved ones had been killed, their family
22:26
Speaker 1: members had been murdered, that no one had survived, that
22:30
Speaker 1: they were going to die, that they were going to
22:32
Speaker 1: dig their own grapes. Some of them did to see
22:35
Speaker 1: the torment, and I think that's one of the things
22:37
Speaker 1: i will forever remember from this trip and I'm grateful
22:40
Speaker 1: for it. Is when we talk about what this is like,
22:44
Speaker 1: the psychological warfare center and the evil of Hamas and
22:49
Speaker 1: Hezballah has no ends. Whether it's blowing up farmers' homes
22:53
Speaker 1: for sport, whether it is killing children, is that the
22:56
Speaker 1: soccer ball and seeing these kids their only was being
23:00
Speaker 1: Jewish and playing sports, that's it looks I met.
23:05
Speaker 2: So kill civilians are the embodiment of evil, and sadly
23:09
Speaker 2: we live in a world where where evil is plentiful.
23:13
Speaker 1: It's incredible. So today I'm going to be leaving with
23:15
Speaker 1: the government and going down to the side of the
23:18
Speaker 1: attack at the festival uh and I'm going to be
23:20
Speaker 1: meeting with some of the hostages there. I'm going to
23:23
Speaker 1: hopefully tell those stories as well in one of our
23:26
Speaker 1: next episodes, because it's just telling their stories and letting
23:29
Speaker 1: people understand what happened that day, and going to go
23:32
Speaker 1: to the kibbutz that were attacked there and and tour
23:34
Speaker 1: the homes of the of the the children that were
23:37
Speaker 1: that were murdered in their cribs. I'm going to meet
23:39
Speaker 1: with the families of the elderly that were killed, including
23:42
Speaker 1: Holocaust survivors. I met with some Holocaust survivors that were
23:45
Speaker 1: had to are homeless in essence and had to move
23:47
Speaker 1: to Jerusalem to survive the war. I met with them
23:50
Speaker 1: as well. Incredible stories. So we'll have more of that,
23:52
Speaker 1: I promise you coming up in other episodes. But I
23:55
Speaker 1: want to say to everyone that is listening, if you
23:58
Speaker 1: are a person of faith, I I the pilgrimage to
24:02
Speaker 1: come here and to see, I think the hope of
24:05
Speaker 1: our faith and Christianity, to walk where Jesus walked, to
24:08
Speaker 1: walk where he carried the cross. I did that the
24:11
Speaker 1: first day I was here. Yeah. Uh. And to be
24:14
Speaker 1: able to just see the Sea of Galilee and witness
24:16
Speaker 1: where so much of our biblical eighty percent of the
24:19
Speaker 1: biblical history, uh, and in the in the Bible with Jesus,
24:23
Speaker 1: I got to witness from sending him one place one
24:25
Speaker 1: It's amazing to see. And it spread to the ward where.
24:28
Speaker 2: They believe Jesus was crucified, where they believe he was buried,
24:32
Speaker 2: and and and and where he rose again. In Heaven.
24:35
Speaker 1: I got to go to the tom Yeah.
24:36
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean standing in the tomb, I look as
24:40
Speaker 2: a believer, it takes your breath away.
24:44
Speaker 1: Yeah. The the the as I described it to family
24:49
Speaker 1: in a text, I said, the the level of feeling
24:52
Speaker 1: I would say the Holy Spirit in these places is
24:54
Speaker 1: something I've never felt before. Uh. The second closest I've
24:57
Speaker 1: ever spelt to that type of spiritual gathering of Christians
25:01
Speaker 1: was honestly Charlie Kirk's memorial and it was incredible. Two
25:07
Speaker 1: of the biggest spiritual moments in my life have happened
25:09
Speaker 1: in the last sixty days, both in a weird way
25:12
Speaker 1: around tragedy, which also is why I think it's incredible
25:15
Speaker 1: when you're a Christian that you know that God is
25:17
Speaker 1: still a God of hope.
25:18
Speaker 2: Amen, let's talk about bad news here at home Tuesday. Yeah,
25:23
Speaker 2: the election, really bad election, all right, So let's start.
25:28
Speaker 2: Let's start with Virginia. So Virginia, we're sitting here, It's
25:32
Speaker 2: now eleven thirty six pm on the East Coast. We
25:35
Speaker 2: have ninety five percent of the vote in and Abigail
25:38
Speaker 2: Spanberger the Democrat, has fifty seven point four percent of
25:43
Speaker 2: the vote. When some Earl Seals has forty two point
25:47
Speaker 2: four percent. So it's at this moment, Yeah, it is
25:50
Speaker 2: one million, nine hundred and five, four hundred and fifty
25:53
Speaker 2: two votes to one million, four hundred and twenty. And
25:58
Speaker 2: I will say four years ago, Glenn Youngkin one and
26:01
Speaker 2: it was a great moment for American Glenn is a
26:03
Speaker 2: good friend. Virginia turned red in this race. Winsome and
26:09
Speaker 2: I went and helped do a fundraiser for wins a
26:13
Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. Winsome is an African American woman.
26:16
Speaker 2: She's a strong conservative. She was an immigrant from Jamaica.
26:19
Speaker 2: She is a marine veteran. She was a strong candidate.
26:23
Speaker 2: She was massively outspent. I think she was outspent more
26:27
Speaker 2: than two to one, maybe even three to one.
26:30
Speaker 3: Yeah.
26:31
Speaker 2: That being said, you go back to the debate between
26:34
Speaker 2: Abigail Spanberger and Winsom Earl Series. I've never seen a
26:38
Speaker 2: more lopsided debate. Abigail Spanberger stared ahead, refused to look
26:43
Speaker 2: at her Like you and I have both seen, I
26:46
Speaker 2: don't know, hundreds of political debates a lot. I've never
26:51
Speaker 2: seen a political candidate refused to make eye contact with
26:56
Speaker 2: their opponent. She literally her attitude was one of contempt,
27:01
Speaker 2: like you don't exist and you don't merit even my attention,
27:07
Speaker 2: and I got to say it makes me sad. Look
27:09
Speaker 2: given the money. Differentially, I'm not shocked that the Democrat won.
27:13
Speaker 2: We're looking at right now a fifteen point win. That
27:18
Speaker 2: is yeah, really really bad news.
27:22
Speaker 1: It's also I think one of the things that was
27:24
Speaker 1: the most shocking about Virginia is we break this down,
27:27
Speaker 1: I'm not surprised Democrats won there. I do think it
27:29
Speaker 1: was a left winning state. Young and when he won,
27:32
Speaker 1: it was a perfect storm. You and I, I think,
27:34
Speaker 1: are the first to admit that. And I love doing
27:36
Speaker 1: this show with you.
27:37
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I campaigned for Glenn all over Virginia. I
27:39
Speaker 2: spent two days on the road with Glenn barnstorming the state.
27:44
Speaker 2: We won it four years ago, but this is a
27:47
Speaker 2: different environment.
27:48
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a perfect storm.
27:50
Speaker 2: And he was better funded than once.
27:52
Speaker 1: More, no doubt about it. But there was a perfect
27:56
Speaker 1: storm with the issue there with parents and rights and
27:58
Speaker 1: schools and the cover up of well, you're right ideology.
28:02
Speaker 2: So it's worth remembering what happened in lowde County right
28:04
Speaker 2: before Glenn Youngkin's race, where you had a teenage boy
28:09
Speaker 2: in high school who went into a girl's bathroom in
28:12
Speaker 2: high school. He was dressed as a girl, he was
28:15
Speaker 2: in a skirt, and he sexually assaulted He sexually assaulted
28:20
Speaker 2: a teenage girl, and the school covered it up. They
28:24
Speaker 2: hid it, and the father of the teenage girl went
28:27
Speaker 2: to the school board confronted them and said, my daughter
28:30
Speaker 2: was raped in your school and you're you're not acknowledging this,
28:34
Speaker 2: and and and they yelled at him. They said, no,
28:38
Speaker 2: there has never been a boy dressed as a girl
28:41
Speaker 2: who sexually assaulted anyone. That was a lie. By the way,
28:44
Speaker 2: this same sexual offender was transferred to another school where
28:48
Speaker 2: he sexually assaulted another girl. Yeah, he did it again,
28:53
Speaker 2: but they ended up arresting the father of the girl,
28:57
Speaker 2: of the victim. And that moment was such a clarifying moment.
29:01
Speaker 2: You You also had the you know, Randy Winingarten, the
29:06
Speaker 2: head of the teachers unions campaigning with Cherry mcculluffe, the
29:10
Speaker 2: Democrat nominee, where mcculluff said, your kids are not yours
29:15
Speaker 2: to educate, we're in charge of your kids. It was
29:18
Speaker 2: a perfect storm. Now there was a state's property and
29:22
Speaker 2: the voters said, well, now at the same time tonight,
29:28
Speaker 2: and we're now at eleven forty pm. Eleven forty pm
29:32
Speaker 2: with ninety four point six percent of the votes in
29:36
Speaker 2: Mikey Cheryl in New Jersey won fifty six point two
29:40
Speaker 2: percent and Jack Chittarelli won forty three point two percent.
29:45
Speaker 2: So the it's very very similar. The vote totals are
29:51
Speaker 2: right now, one million, seven hundred and seventy four hundred
29:55
Speaker 2: and seventy eight votes for MIKEL. Cheryl the Democrat and
29:58
Speaker 2: one million, three hundred and sixty five and fifty two
30:02
Speaker 2: for Jack Chittarelly. I gotta admit this is an even
30:06
Speaker 2: more surprising result for me than Virginia. Of the three
30:12
Speaker 2: major elections tonight, I was most optimistic about New Jersey.
30:16
Speaker 2: Chittarelli seemed an implementum that there were a bunch of
30:20
Speaker 2: Democrat mayors and elected officials that were endorsing him. And
30:26
Speaker 2: you know, this is just that that's what a thirteen
30:29
Speaker 2: point differential as we sit here tonight, that is a massive,
30:34
Speaker 2: massive loss. And what is disappointing is is that's not
30:39
Speaker 2: just a loss in Virginia and New Jersey, but Virginia
30:43
Speaker 2: New Jersey are historically the first off year election after
30:47
Speaker 2: a presidential election. They are frequently a Canarian a coal mine.
30:53
Speaker 2: So you go back to after Obama was elected, you
30:57
Speaker 2: had Virginia, New Jersey both elected Republicans and it proved
31:04
Speaker 2: a forerunner of a great Republican victory coming. This ain't
31:09
Speaker 2: good to have double digit losses in both New Jersey
31:12
Speaker 2: and Virginia. It is a really bad sign. If you're
31:16
Speaker 2: a Democrat tonight, you're thrilled, you're encouraged, And if you're
31:21
Speaker 2: a conservative, you're someone who loves America. This is a
31:24
Speaker 2: major warning sign.
31:25
Speaker 1: And I'll say this, it's a warning sign. But I
31:27
Speaker 1: also want to put it in perspective because these are
31:30
Speaker 1: states that are that are not Republican states, true, So
31:33
Speaker 1: I do want to put that in perspective. I also
31:36
Speaker 1: want to say, and I want to give a little
31:38
Speaker 1: bit of hope here. The amount of money that came in,
31:40
Speaker 1: and let's go back to Virginia for a second, was astronomical.
31:44
Speaker 1: You had a candidate that won on the ballot in
31:46
Speaker 1: Virginia that had text messages came out saying he wanted
31:49
Speaker 1: his political opponents to die, including their children, and said
31:53
Speaker 1: in those text messages that it's only when Republicans are
31:56
Speaker 1: basically murdered, their children are killed, that then they will
31:59
Speaker 1: move to our ideology. That is the same type of
32:02
Speaker 1: conversations that I've been having in Israel about what terrorists believe.
32:06
Speaker 1: And yet that person also won in that race. So
32:10
Speaker 1: I go back to Democrats are angry. They are mobilized
32:14
Speaker 1: right now. Mundani. For example, in New York, which we're
32:17
Speaker 1: gonna move to in a second, and a straight up
32:19
Speaker 1: communist is now gonna be running the America's greatest city.
32:21
Speaker 1: He just wrapped up his speech there in New York City.
32:25
Speaker 1: But the amount of money that Democrats put into Virginia,
32:28
Speaker 1: which again is a Democrat state, we did not have
32:30
Speaker 1: a perfect storm on the issues this time like we
32:32
Speaker 1: did with Younkin last time. I think young Kin was
32:34
Speaker 1: a better candidate. I just want to be clear about
32:36
Speaker 1: that from a political perspective of which can it was
32:40
Speaker 1: better and Virginia we had some momentum there. It's still
32:44
Speaker 1: a very liberal state. Is New Jersey is a liberal state?
32:48
Speaker 2: Yeah, But let me say a couple of things. Number One,
32:51
Speaker 2: Virginia and New Jersey are both very liberal states. Virginia
32:55
Speaker 2: has a ton of government workers, in northern Virginia. The
32:59
Speaker 2: Democrats have just caused the longest government shut down in
33:03
Speaker 2: American history, and they nonetheless had any maazing on purpose victory.
33:08
Speaker 2: It was on purpose. So one of the things I said,
33:11
Speaker 2: the Democrats would not open the government before today because
33:15
Speaker 2: they believe the shutdown energizes their base. I predicted we'll
33:18
Speaker 2: see the government open either later this week or early
33:21
Speaker 2: next week. And yet apparently all of these government workers
33:27
Speaker 2: who are not getting paychecks, who haven't gotten paychecks for
33:30
Speaker 2: thirty five days, they all voted left wing. They all
33:33
Speaker 2: voted Democrat, even the folks that Chuck Schumer and the
33:36
Speaker 2: Democrats purposely shut down their jobs, that their ideology mattered
33:42
Speaker 2: more than their own home mortgage. And I gotta say,
33:45
Speaker 2: you under explained.
33:46
Speaker 1: Let's also explain that the political side of Virginia for
33:49
Speaker 1: people that don't live in DC, or never have or
33:51
Speaker 1: never worked in DC. So the majority of people that
33:55
Speaker 1: work in government in d C, and that's a lot
33:59
Speaker 1: of employees. If you have kids, a lot of them
34:01
Speaker 1: don't live in DC. District of Columbia is different, housing,
34:05
Speaker 1: different schooling. A lot the majority of my friends that
34:07
Speaker 1: work in politics in DC live in Virginia. So you
34:11
Speaker 1: talk about the jobs the.
34:13
Speaker 2: Agree that I don't know that I would say the
34:15
Speaker 2: majority of the people, but a large percentage live in
34:18
Speaker 2: northern Virginia, a large percentage live in Maryland, and a
34:21
Speaker 2: significant percentage live in DC.
34:23
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Speaker 1: I mean, I think Virginia the ripple effect is maybe
36:49
Speaker 1: a better way of describing it, which is, if you
36:52
Speaker 1: live in Virginia, the chances that you are either a
36:55
Speaker 1: related or one of your very good friends is missing
36:58
Speaker 1: a paycheck right now is dreamly high. And they didn't
37:01
Speaker 1: credits that. They're so partisan and they wanted the governor.
37:05
Speaker 1: They wanted it.
37:06
Speaker 2: They're just angry, and I want to say, I want
37:09
Speaker 2: to underscore something you said. Look, the governor's race is
37:12
Speaker 2: very disappointing. The one that is frankly shocking is the
37:16
Speaker 2: Virginia AG race. So j Jones the Democrat won. He
37:21
Speaker 2: won with fifty two point nine percent. He beat Jason Miarz.
37:26
Speaker 2: Jason Millars is the incumbent Republican. He's Cuban American.
37:30
Speaker 1: Uh.
37:30
Speaker 2: He got forty six point seven percent. So it was
37:34
Speaker 2: as of right hand eleven forty seven. J Jones got
37:38
Speaker 2: one million, seven hundred and three hundred and seventy votes
37:41
Speaker 2: and Millar has got one million, five hundred and thirty three,
37:44
Speaker 2: eight hundred and forty one votes. That is truly shocking
37:47
Speaker 2: because J. Jones is the one who texted that he
37:51
Speaker 2: wanted to see the children of the Republican Speaker of
37:54
Speaker 2: the House murder and it was at a time of
37:58
Speaker 2: political violence. This sick, depraved psychopath. And I'm sorry if
38:04
Speaker 2: you were wishing. And by the way, he knew those children,
38:07
Speaker 2: that these were not abstract children. He knew his colleague.
38:10
Speaker 2: They were both serving in the state legislature. He knew
38:12
Speaker 2: his colleagues children, and he said, I want to see
38:15
Speaker 2: them murdered. He also said he wanted to see his
38:18
Speaker 2: colleague murder and at the time of glorifying violence. And
38:22
Speaker 2: there was enormous discussion. Now, Abigail Spangberger refused to condemn him.
38:27
Speaker 2: And I will say the Democrats the degree of message discipline.
38:30
Speaker 2: Not a single Democrat in Virginia that I'm aware of
38:34
Speaker 2: or nationally condemn J. Jones for saying and writing he
38:39
Speaker 2: wanted to see the children of his political opponent murdered.
38:44
Speaker 2: Look the Democrat Party. The message disciplined. If he were
38:47
Speaker 2: a Republican, they would have thrown him overboard.
38:50
Speaker 3: In a heartbeat.
38:51
Speaker 2: But the Democrats don't care. Yes, they were just like, nope,
38:54
Speaker 2: we're on this team. A little bit of murder of
38:57
Speaker 2: children doesn't matter. We're in support it, I gotta say.
39:01
Speaker 2: And there was a lot of polling. Look, when some sears,
39:05
Speaker 2: the polling had shown for a fair amount of time
39:08
Speaker 2: that she was losing, millara Is, the polling had shown
39:12
Speaker 2: that he was winning. And so this is a surprising
39:15
Speaker 2: result that we're looking at a five to six point victory.
39:22
Speaker 2: That means they're Democrats that do not care. I've got
39:26
Speaker 2: a candidate who wants children to be murdered. That's my guy.
39:31
Speaker 2: Like wow, that is a depressing and sad statement of
39:35
Speaker 2: where we are as a country.
39:38
Speaker 1: It is and if you go from that to New
39:40
Speaker 1: York City, which look Mandani said in his speech moments ago,
39:46
Speaker 1: this is a clear victory for people wanting change. This
39:49
Speaker 1: race center was really about class warfare, It was about
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Speaker 1: Robin hood campaign. For him, it was a straight up communism.
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Speaker 1: I mean, the red apple is literally a communist apple. Now,
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Speaker 1: a man that wants to take from the rich, give
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Speaker 1: to the poor, push people out that are wealthy and successful,
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Speaker 1: tax them into port to being poor, and run people
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Speaker 1: out of the state that he says don't want to
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Speaker 1: pay their fair share or they are fighting him. He's
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Speaker 1: all about giving away free stuff, whether it's free bussing
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Speaker 1: or free food, free grocery store like. This is full
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Speaker 1: blown communism, is what he's an advocate for. A guy
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Speaker 1: that's never had a real job in his entire life,
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Speaker 1: a guy that's a radical, his parents a radical as well.
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Speaker 1: He won overwhelmingly in New York City. That is the
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Speaker 1: biggest concern for me is that this cancer of socialism
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Speaker 1: the Democratic Party is spreading, and I would say spreading
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Speaker 1: rapidly to America's most biggest and most important financial city.
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Speaker 2: Look, comrade Mandami is now the mayor of New York.
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Speaker 2: That is incredibly distressing. This man is a communist and
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Speaker 2: he is a jihadist. And those are not using those
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Speaker 2: as empty epithetic.
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Speaker 1: It's plain the jihadis aspects, So people know what you
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Speaker 1: mean by that.
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Speaker 2: So listen. This is someone who has cheered for Hamas,
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Speaker 2: he has called for the eradication of Israel. He is
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Speaker 2: he is an Islamist. He believes in political Islam. He
41:20
Speaker 2: had told the people of New York. The police brutality
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Speaker 2: in New York was trained and taught by the IDF,
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Speaker 2: the Israeli Defense Forces. That's psychotic. He is a communist.
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Speaker 2: And I don't say that in the sense that like
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Speaker 2: sometimes people say, oh, democrats are all communists. No, know,
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Speaker 2: this is someone that calls for seizing the means of
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Speaker 2: production in society. He is an explicit and this is
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Speaker 2: something that's called the Red Green Alliance, which is the
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Speaker 2: alliance between Jahadis and communists, and and Mamdani is the
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Speaker 2: intersection of both of them. There's some Republicans that are happy.
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Speaker 2: They're like, Okay, this is great. We'll have great victories
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six and twenty twenty eight because there's
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Speaker 2: such a whack job as mayor of New York that
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Speaker 2: in every other state will be able to campaign against
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Speaker 2: comrade Mamdani. I am not celebrating. Look New York. New
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Speaker 2: York's not my favorite city in the world. But New
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Speaker 2: York is a crown jewel of America. New York is
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Speaker 2: the financial capital of the world. New York is the
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Speaker 2: media capital of the world. By any measure, New York
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Speaker 2: is one of the most important cities in America. And
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Speaker 2: to have New York now governed by a radical communist
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Speaker 2: jihadis let me tell you what's going to happen. More
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Speaker 2: people are going to die in New York. Comrade Mandani
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Speaker 2: is going to wage war against the NYPD. I'm in
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Speaker 2: New York quite a bit, I can tell you. I
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Speaker 2: actually can't tell you how many New York cops have
42:54
Speaker 2: said they're terrified of what's going to happen. If this
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Speaker 2: guy wins, you're going to see the police.
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Speaker 1: Clear in the past, he wants to get rid of
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Speaker 1: all police. He said, he wants to abolish the police.
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Speaker 1: He believes there should be no police force in New
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Speaker 1: York City.
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Speaker 2: Look, there's gonna be more murders in New York. There's
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Speaker 2: gonna be more rapes in New York. They're gonna be
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Speaker 2: more children attacked in New York. We're going to see
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Speaker 2: more with resources fleeing New York, coming to Florida, coming
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Speaker 2: to Texas. And the results as of eleven to fifty
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Speaker 2: two PM, Mom Donnie fifty point four percent. Andrew Cuomo,
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Speaker 2: who was the governor of New York he's a Democrat.
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Speaker 2: He's not like a right wing guy. He's Andrew friggin
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Speaker 2: Cuomo forty one point six percent, and then Curtis Silwa
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Speaker 2: seven point one percent. Now, look, I would have liked
43:43
Speaker 2: to have seen Silva drop out. Yeah, to give Qui TV, Yeah,
43:49
Speaker 2: to give to give Colomo a better chance of winning.
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Speaker 2: Seven percent is just a spoiler. And but I'll tell
43:56
Speaker 2: you what's distressing. As of right now, even if Silha
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Speaker 2: dropped out, if you gave every bit one hundred percent
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Speaker 2: of Silba's votes to Cuomo, and you wouldn't have there
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Speaker 2: some people that would say, I'm not voting for Cuomo.
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Speaker 2: But if you gave one hundred percent, Silva as of
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Speaker 2: right now had one hundred and forty six, one hundred
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Speaker 2: and twenty seven votes. Cuomo had eight hundred and fifty
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Speaker 2: four thousand, seven hundred and eighty three. If you add
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Speaker 2: those two together, it's still less than what Mandani had
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Speaker 2: of one million, thirty five thousand, six hundred and forty six.
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Speaker 2: So Mondami right now is at fifty point four percent,
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Speaker 2: which means it means it didn't matter a majority of
44:32
Speaker 2: New Yorkers wanted a communist jahatist and I got to say,
44:36
Speaker 2: you know, a couple of days ago, like we saw
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Speaker 2: some Jewish rabbis in New York endorsing Mandami. I got
44:45
Speaker 2: to tell you a buddy of mine, I went to
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Speaker 2: college with, very smart guy, brilliant guy. He was a
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Speaker 2: college debater, actually had debated with him. But he is
44:53
Speaker 2: a liberal Democrat. He is a Jewish New Yorker. I
44:57
Speaker 2: was in New York three four weeks ago and we
45:00
Speaker 2: spent about an hour sitting around around a glass scotch
45:04
Speaker 2: where he was explaining he had voted from Amdami. And
45:08
Speaker 2: I don't know what to say to that, Like, it
45:10
Speaker 2: is truly terrifying where the Democratic Party is going. This
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Speaker 2: is the future of the Democrat Party. You might think, okay,
45:21
Speaker 2: that votes well for America because the rest of the
45:24
Speaker 2: country will move in the direction of common sense. I
45:27
Speaker 2: got to say, at least New Jersey and Virginia are
45:30
Speaker 2: not encouraging that regard.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt about it. Finally, want to get your
45:35
Speaker 1: quick thoughts. It is official. I'm looking at the numbers
45:39
Speaker 1: on the TV right now. California has passed Proposition fifty.
45:44
Speaker 1: Tell people what that is quickly and your reaction to that.
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Speaker 2: So California wants to redistrict. They're going to redistrict to
45:52
Speaker 2: create five new Democrat seats. California is already one of
45:55
Speaker 2: the most heavily gerrymandered states in the country. I think
45:59
Speaker 2: eighty three percent of the seats are Democrat, even though
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Speaker 2: only about sixty percent of the votes or Democrat. They're
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Speaker 2: gonna jack it up to over ninety percent Democrat. They're
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Speaker 2: just they're trying to eliminate Republicans. They're telling Republicans in California,
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Speaker 2: you have no voice. And this is an example Democrats
46:22
Speaker 2: do not give a damn about democracy. This is all
46:26
Speaker 2: about power. Now you're gonna see other Republican states respond.
46:30
Speaker 2: You're gonna see other Republican states redistrict. They claimed they
46:34
Speaker 2: were doing this in response to Texas, but Texas was
46:38
Speaker 2: went from about sixty three percent Republicans to about seventy
46:45
Speaker 2: six percent Republicans. Texas votes overwhelmingly Republicans, so by any measure,
46:51
Speaker 2: even under the new map, Texas is markedly less gerrymanner
46:54
Speaker 2: than California used to be. And they decided eighty three
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Speaker 2: percent is not enough. We want to get north of
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Speaker 2: This is pure power. This show's Gavin Newsom has contempt
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Speaker 2: for democracy and and and it is sadly typical of
47:10
Speaker 2: where democrats are Nashley, Yeah, it is, It truly is.
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Speaker 1: And they just said, if you're a Republican in California,
47:18
Speaker 1: you have a zero representation here, get out, leave the
47:21
Speaker 1: state and we will not listen to a word that
47:23
Speaker 1: you say. It's amazing. It is like you said, it
47:26
Speaker 1: was a rough night for Republicans. I say it again,
47:30
Speaker 1: putting it in perspective. These are all places that lean Democrat.
47:34
Speaker 1: They had a lot of money, they had a lot
47:36
Speaker 1: of momentum, They wanted to show some victories against Donald Trump.
47:40
Speaker 1: The government shutdown clearly had a big impact in the
47:42
Speaker 1: Virginia race there. And and I'm still in shock by
47:46
Speaker 1: where we are in New York City, Uh with it
47:48
Speaker 1: with a full blown communist there. We're gonna keep talking
47:51
Speaker 1: about it. We'll keep you informed and we'll also I
47:53
Speaker 1: will be giving you the stories coming up in two
47:56
Speaker 1: days about seeing where this master took place on the
48:00
Speaker 1: October seventh attack in Israel, and the victims I'm gonna
48:03
Speaker 1: meet with will have all that for you on the
48:05
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