WEBVTT - America’s Economic Realignment 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:04.680 All right, welcome back to the Sean Hannity Show. I 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:08.600 am Jeffrey Lord of the American Spectator or Newsmax and 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:11.760 all over the place the Word of the Lord Podcast. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:16.079 We can't forget that, and I am sitting in for 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.439 Sean as we wind down the year. You can call 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.079 in at eight hundred and nine four one, seven, three 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.640 two six or eight hundred and nine four to one Shawn. 0:00:25.680 --> 0:00:28.600 And we now are going to move on to our 0:00:28.680 --> 0:00:34.600 next guest, one, Selena Zito. Hello, Selena, Hey. 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:36.839 Joff, how are you nice to hear your voice? 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:39.839 I am, I am fine. Let me just tell our audience. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.080 Selena is a I'm biased is a terrific journalist who 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:47.920 joined The Washington Examiner in twenty sixteen as a Pittsburgh 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.879 based columnist and reporter covering national politics and culture from 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:57.160 a perspective outside the Beltway. She is the author of Butler, 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:01.080 The Untold Story of the near Assassin of Donald Trump 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:04.520 and the Fight for America's Heartland and the Great Revolt. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.520 She began her career at the Pittsburgh Tribune Review as 0:01:08.560 --> 0:01:12.640 a reporter and columnist covering national politics, and she has 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:15.000 been a contributor at The New York Post and The 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:20.160 Wall Street Journal, and is currently contributor at the Washington Post. So, Selena, 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:22.480 it is great to talk to you. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.640 Well, right back at Jeff, thank you so much. I 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.520 hope you had a very very Christmas. 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:31.000 I did, indeed, I did, indeed, And now it's on 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.679 to twenty six, which is exactly where I wanted to 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.280 start with you. Let's start out with your thoughts on 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:40.360 twenty six, both in terms of what's going to be 0:01:40.400 --> 0:01:44.640 happening in Pennsylvania politically and then anywhere else in the 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:47.440 country that you have found of interest. 0:01:48.560 --> 0:01:54.800 Well, as most people know, a mid term election for 0:01:54.920 --> 0:01:59.000 the party in power traditionally but not always tends to 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:05.800 benefit the opposing party. But we're in very different times, 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:10.680 so I wouldn't place a bet on that there. You know, 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:14.600 there's been a lot of sort of speculation because of 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:19.120 what happened in Virginia, New Jersey, but what happened in 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:23.320 Virginia in New Jersey is exactly what always happens, and 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:27.560 so I wouldn't use that as a as a stepping 0:02:27.639 --> 0:02:31.040 stone to say, well, this means this, or that we're 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:35.600 in very sort of turbulent times, not just in our politics, 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:40.200 but also in how this country is changing in terms 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:45.920 of our economy. We are going through a version of 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:49.760 the Industrial Revolution, only this time it centers on tech. 0:02:50.480 --> 0:02:57.800 And so with that turbulence becomes unpredictability in American politics. Now, Pennsylvania, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.760 as always will be the center of a ten. We 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:06.079 have a governor's race between Democrats Josh Shapiro and Republican 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:10.800 Stacy Garrity. This, uh, well just will be a very 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:16.800 different matchup than the one between Shapiro and Mastriano. And 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.400 and so I would look to this to be competitive. 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:25.800 But Shapiro has done a very good job of earning 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:30.359 Trump voters in the last election cycle, So I wouldn't 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:34.880 I would be cautious to think that this is something 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:40.080 that would be easily won by a Republican. Shapiro does 0:03:40.160 --> 0:03:44.440 a very good job of having a moderating voice. And 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:49.640 so we also have I would say three competitive races 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:53.400 in the House and the and and for Congress, and 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:58.440 also for this for the State House and the State Senate. 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.880 Both parties are being be pushing to get the majority 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:05.440 in those in those in those legislative bodies. 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:11.200 How much do you think the governor Shapiro's eye on 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:16.120 twenty twenty eight will affect what happens with him in 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:17.320 twenty twenty six. 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:22.920 I think what Shapiro wants to do is, obviously, when 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:27.360 the seat right, he wants to win reelection, but I 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:31.679 think he also wants to show his muscle and try 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:34.680 to get a larger majority of the State House. They 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:37.680 only have it by one seat. That's not a lot 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.159 of power. And I think he wants to also win 0:04:41.240 --> 0:04:44.640 the state the majority in the state Senate, which they 0:04:44.640 --> 0:04:47.400 do not have. I think Republicans have the majority by 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:51.719 about five or six seats. So that's what he is 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:55.080 going to be putting his effort into, not just his race, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:05:00.360 but also also show his political chops by saying, hey, 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.000 look what I did. I not only won the governor's race, 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:08.240 I brought majorities in Now that's what he wants to do. 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.880 That doesn't mean that that's what's going to happen. Pennsylvanians 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:19.080 notoriously split their tickets, and I suspect this will over 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:20.359 year will be no different. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.320 How do you think you know? One of the things 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:27.200 when I first when I was a teenager getting involved, 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.520 I was a page not to date myself. I was 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.800 a page at the nineteen sixty eight Republican Convention. I was, 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:39.280 I think seventeen years old, and I started, you know, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:44.040 having conversations with my political elders of the day, and 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.000 one of the things that was explained to me was 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:51.480 about what Pennsylvanians know as the t and for those 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:56.760 not from Pennsylvania, basically that means that Democrats would do 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.000 well in the east in Philadelphia, and in the world 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.600 west in Pittsburgh and surrounding counties, and then this huge 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:07.800 swath of Pennsylvania that goes right up the middle from 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:11.320 between those two spots and goes right up the middle 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:16.159 to from the Maryland border to the New York border, 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.680 and then goes left and right all the way over 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.640 to Erie and the right over to Scranton and Wilkesbury. 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.600 How much of a role do you think that that 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:30.840 sort of formulation is going to play in the governor's race. 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:34.960 As they go on, Well, not much has changed about 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.840 the Key other than the middle of the Key has 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:44.000 gotten wider. Uh, you know, there's more there has been 0:06:44.160 --> 0:06:50.240 more power exercised in counties like Luverne and Erie and 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:56.480 but also Cambria, Beaver Washington, Westmoreland. Back in those days, 0:06:56.560 --> 0:07:03.480 those were still Democrat reliable Democrat counties. That has changed 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:07.160 over the past two ten years to the point where 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:12.600 most locally elected offices are now held by Republicans. So 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:17.640 that has given Republicans more power and more ability to 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:22.360 win statewide elections. You saw that with President Trump in 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.080 twenty sixteen. You saw it more so with President Trump 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.360 in twenty four where he expanded those wins. And you 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:34.760 also saw it with Dave McCormick. So the power has 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:38.920 shrunk away from Billy and Pittsburgh and went one point 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:43.200 where there's those cities and the counties that surrounded them 0:07:43.600 --> 0:07:46.520 determined elections. That's not the case anymore. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:51.360 Yeah, Yeah, what was I going to say to you 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:57.960 here about how much do you think President Trump is 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.480 going to affect things in Pennsylvania in in our election, 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:05.720 whether it's for the governorship or or just in general 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:07.760 for other candidates lower down on. 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:08.680 The on the ballot. 0:08:09.960 --> 0:08:12.119 I think that the president is going to be really 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:15.440 really focused on the congressional races and also on the 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:20.920 state legislative races. I suspect in our state that's where 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:25.440 he is where he's going to use his political muscle, 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:32.720 and and that's where I expect him to to to 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:36.560 come out and be supportive and do the things that 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.520 those candidates need for them to win. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.600 And I have to ask, what are your thoughts on 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.400 the state of the Pennsylvania Republican Party and how it 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:48.480 How it's. 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:55.439 Doing well, I mean, it has its challenges. I think 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:01.160 that the state Party should have not focused on the 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.520 Supreme Court races this past November to the extent that 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:10.400 they did. They were never going to win them. Those 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.040 are races that are hard to win. And also, I think, 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.160 most importantly, because you know, I'm old and I have 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:25.080 history of historical recollection, in twenty fifteen, Republicans lost those 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.640 state Supreme Court races and everybody thought everything was over 0:09:28.679 --> 0:09:31.240 for the Republican Party and then look what happened in 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:39.680 twenty sixteen. So I'm really reluctant to believe what happened 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:45.319 this past November with those state Supreme Court races matters. 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:50.480 They should have focused more on local elections because that's 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:57.320 what meaning you know, row offices and counties like Bucks 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:03.200 and Eerie and Westmoreland. I think that's where that's where 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:08.320 the state Party is most muscular, and they should take 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:10.720 advantage of what they're best at doing. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:16.360 Yeah, do you think I'm curious what you think about 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:20.440 the state of industry in Pennsylvania. I mean, once upon 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:23.920 a time it was all steel and coal, and now 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.000 I think there are other things coming to the fore 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:30.480 in Pennsylvania, twenty first century technology and all that kind 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:32.600 of thing. What are your thoughts on that as to 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.280 how we're doing, how the state is doing with that 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.280 kind of thing and changes that may lie ahead or 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:40.800 are already in progress. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.679 Well, thanks to President Trump, the steel industry is going 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.280 to be booming. It already is. They've been hiring at 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:51.920 a robust clip because of the deal between Nippon and 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.960 US Steel. So as the steel manufacturing is only going 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:58.840 to get bigger and better in our state. And coal 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:02.319 is also on the rebound in the state in particular 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.920 because of the most important emerging industry in our state, 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:11.600 which is the AI data power centers. Now, while they 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:15.800 don't typically employ a lot of people, the data are 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:21.679 power centers themselves to build them and maintain them does 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:26.319 and we have rich abundant energy in coal and natural 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:32.760 gas to build the facilities and energy components needed to 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:36.000 supply the energy to those data power centers. So we're 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:39.000 going through a boom right now in our state, and 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:42.199 we are for the at least the next ten years. 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:46.800 We've got hundreds of billions of dollars of investment, not 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:51.680 only in western Pennsylvania, but also in Luzerne and other counties. 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.600 There's going to be one upcoming in Green County where 0:11:54.640 --> 0:12:00.280 you are going to see and also Indiana County where 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.960 you were going to see a sturge of hiring. It's 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.840 already started and you're going to see these little boom 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:10.559 towns start to form around these jobs. 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:15.400 Well, that's that's great news because I think that you know, 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.520 I was a little more than a little concerned about 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:22.520 our state of Pennsylvania, and uh when when I was 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:26.839 starting out and eventually watching my old boss, Senator John 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:31.560 Hines working very closely as staff members. We had to 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:35.680 work on the energy industry, and we also and I 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.439 don't know, maybe you can update us on the status 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:43.240 of what's going on with shipyard construction and I don't know, 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:47.440 the Philadelphia Navy Yard is that's still uh still in 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:48.559 business as it were. 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.840 Yeah, Senator McCormick and President Trump announced just a few 0:12:55.280 --> 0:13:01.880 a few weeks ago. Yeah, a couple billion dollar investment 0:13:02.080 --> 0:13:06.400 in the shipyards. So in terms of manufacturing, uh and 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:10.560 blue collar work, you know people that work in the trade, right, 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:14.320 the biggest challenge is to finding people to fill the jobs. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.760 Not that the jobs aren't there. There are lots of jobs. 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.040 Well that's that's good to know because when I worked 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.840 for Senator Hines, that was that was one of my 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:29.680 assignments that he made they would get This was directly 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:34.800 tied to the Reagan defense build up. And the deal 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:41.600 was that there were aircraft carriers and battleships that needed 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.040 to be They called it the SLEPT program s l 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:48.720 e P, which stood for Service Life Extension program and uh, 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:54.520 it was it was a battle for Senator Hines to 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:59.679 get others around around the country, Uh, to you know, 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.640 come pete against them and win so that we would 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.320 get those ships into the Philadelphia Navy Yard. And a 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.400 lot of times it happened, but sometimes it didn't happen, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.480 and UH, that's a that's a problem. Well, my friend, 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:16.200 it was great to talk to you. We will doubtless 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.839 be seeing you talking to you again. Have a great 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:22.440 twenty twenty six, And I would just remind our audience 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:25.520 our numbers eight hundred nine four one seven, three two six, 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:29.200 eight hundred and nine four to one Sean, and we'll 0:14:29.240 --> 0:14:33.200 be back very shortly. All right, this is Jeffrey Lord 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:37.400 sitting in for our friend Sean Hannity, and let me 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.400 give out our number here, Sean's number eight hundred and 0:14:40.440 --> 0:14:43.920 nine four one seven, three two six and eight hundred 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:47.880 and nine forour to one Sean, and you are welcome 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:51.320 to call in and check in and see what's going on. 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:53.720 We're going to have a good guest coming up with 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:59.880 our friend Jeff Bardos, who was very involved in Pennsylvania 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.600 and UH is now also moved to the international stage 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:06.280 at the UN, and we're going to want to talk 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:08.720 to him a little bit about that. The UN is 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.200 always as long as I've been around in life, it's 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:15.160 always been a source of of of conversations with various 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:20.320 ambassadors from the United States making a case eloquently for 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.960 the United States and sometimes UH scolding others and all 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.200 of that. It's always very interesting and very interesting atmosphere. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.000 So it'll be interesting to talk to UH to Jeff 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:36.800 about that. And after that, I think, UH, we'll just uh, 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:39.640 we'll see what's going on here. We do have news 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:44.520 coming out with Prime Minister net and Yahoo and President Trump, 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:49.280 and uh, we'll we'll see what that has going on 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:53.200 for it. So we will be back very shortly. 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:24.720 Breaking news straight from the source. This is the Sean 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:26.440 Hannity Show. 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.960 All right, this is Jeffrey Lord sitting in for our 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:35.400 friend Sean Hannity. Welcome to Shawn's radio show, and you 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.720 can reach us at eight hundred and nine four one 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.680 seven three two six or eight hundred and nine four 0:16:40.760 --> 0:16:45.480 one sewn. So we're going to play a little We're 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.200 gonna dip into this press conference that was just held 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:54.040 President Trump and President Prime Minister net and Yahoo and 0:16:54.560 --> 0:16:56.520 actually I think some of it may even still be 0:16:56.560 --> 0:16:59.880 going on, but there's a lot of stuff happening here. 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:04.040 And uh, you know what President Trump has managed to 0:17:04.040 --> 0:17:08.040 accomplish in the Middle East with the various countries and 0:17:08.440 --> 0:17:12.520 getting peace agreements and all of this kind of thing, uh, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.199 I think has been astonishing, and getting Israel and some 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.560 of Arab countries to work together. Jared Kushner has been 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.280 out there working very hard on all this. So we're 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:24.600 going to just play a little bit here for you 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.720 to sort of get the flavor of what's going on. 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.000 Can you clarify to us, did you talk about what 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:31.280 are you talking about. 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:33.000 With the president? 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:39.879 There's really President Hartok. Did you talk with him directly? 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.560 Yeah, oh, we like you got to say that. No, 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:45.400 I think he's going to be in great shape. He's 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:49.800 a wartime prime minister at the highest level. He's achieved 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:54.280 tremendous success. And I'll say it. You know, if you 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:58.160 had eight out of ten prime ministers in his position 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.560 right now or before right now, maybe you wouldn't have 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:03.600 Israel any longer. 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:05.399 Israel would not exist. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.880 I'd say two of them would in eight of them 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.399 would that. Those are not good odds. You needed a 0:18:12.560 --> 0:18:18.720 very special man to really carry through and really help 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:23.760 Israel through this horrible jam. You know, these are major factions, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.760 and it started with our negotiation with Iran. 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:30.199 I think it probably started with Solomony. 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.359 That was really where you mentioned that today, which started 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:39.000 with Solomoni bad guy doing bad things, hurting a lot 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:43.480 of people, killing American soldiers and other soldiers. But it 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:47.320 started right there would probably be the starting point, and 0:18:47.359 --> 0:18:50.959 then from that point forward, but you would you have 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:54.440 a wartime prime minister at the highest level. There could 0:18:54.480 --> 0:18:58.320 be other wartime prime ministers, but that'd lose. He won, 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.880 and I think the people of Israel appreciated. I think 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.200 a lot of the people in the world appreciated, actually, 0:19:04.440 --> 0:19:06.399 and because of that victory, we were able to get 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:09.240 peace in the Middle East. If you had a different 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.560 kind of a personality, if you had a weak person 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:15.040 or a stupid person, and there are plenty of both 0:19:15.040 --> 0:19:17.800 of them, you would not have had success, and you 0:19:17.880 --> 0:19:20.600 might not have Israel. And you report for Israel, I 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:21.960 know you're very proud of it, and you do a 0:19:21.960 --> 0:19:24.760 great job. You might not have a job because they 0:19:24.840 --> 0:19:26.639 might not be an Israel right now if you had 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.439 a different prime minister. That's a big statement. But to me, 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.000 it's a very simple statement to make. I'm looking at 0:19:33.000 --> 0:19:36.200 Pete Hegseth and he's sort of nodding. If they don't 0:19:36.240 --> 0:19:38.199 have a strong prime minister, Pete, you might not have 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:38.960 Israel today. 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.720 I think you'll go down in the record books. 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:44.679 And you know I was a big help. I'll be honest, 0:19:44.720 --> 0:19:48.400 with big, big help. Somebody may sit in the room. 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.359 If you don't have Trump, you needed a proper combination 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:56.280 of everything. And if you didn't have that combination, which 0:19:56.320 --> 0:20:00.400 they had, you would not have an existing Israel right now. 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:02.080 And the people of Israel know it. 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:05.080 That's why they like me, and that's why they really 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:06.960 they actually like him. He's got a little bit of 0:20:07.000 --> 0:20:09.480 a love hate more than I do over there. But 0:20:10.480 --> 0:20:12.119 you know what, even the haters have a lot of 0:20:12.119 --> 0:20:15.680 respect for him. There's a lot of jealousy about him, 0:20:15.840 --> 0:20:18.879 a lot of jealousy. Jealousy is a bad word. But 0:20:19.240 --> 0:20:21.320 I believe you would not have Israel right now. So 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:22.160 it's a big deal. 0:20:22.320 --> 0:20:23.000 Yeah. Please. 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:26.880 A recent Paul showed that as many of as half 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.080 of Gosens would be willing to leave the gods of 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.240 strip of afforded the opportunity to do so. 0:20:31.560 --> 0:20:33.800 Back in February, you said that all Godsens. 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:36.240 I heard the numbers to the half of Gaza would leave. 0:20:36.880 --> 0:20:37.679 I've always said it. 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.560 I said, if you were given the opportunity to live 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:43.240 in a better climate. 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:44.560 They would move. 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:46.760 They're there because they sort of have to be. I 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:48.080 think it would be I think it would be a 0:20:48.119 --> 0:20:51.919 great opportunity. But let's see if that opportunity presents itself. 0:20:51.920 --> 0:20:56.000 But we're helping the people of Gaza a lot, so 0:20:56.200 --> 0:20:59.359 is Israel, by the way, So we'll see what happens. 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:00.879 But I saw that it was a poll. It was 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:03.040 actually more than half the people would leave if they 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:05.960 were given the opportunity. And I've been saying that for 0:21:06.000 --> 0:21:07.880 a long time. It was to me it was common sense. 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:08.879 So it's interesting. 0:21:09.280 --> 0:21:11.840 I wouldn't countries accept them. 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:15.840 Look, let's not talk about it because we don't want 0:21:15.840 --> 0:21:16.640 the controversy. 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:17.840 Right now, we're helping guys. 0:21:18.480 --> 0:21:21.600 But if they were given the opportunity, I think even 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.879 higher than that. The person the group that did the 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.359 poll is usually I call them negative pulses. You have 0:21:28.400 --> 0:21:31.159 a lot of them, and yet this poll was I 0:21:31.200 --> 0:21:34.400 think very accurate. Other than it would be more than 0:21:34.440 --> 0:21:37.200 half the people if given the opportunity. But they haven't 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.320 been given that opportunity. So we'll see what happens. 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.679 Have you reach a point of understanding regarding Syria? 0:21:45.880 --> 0:21:46.640 We do have. 0:21:46.600 --> 0:21:51.240 An understanding regarding Syria. Now with Syria, you know you're 0:21:51.359 --> 0:21:55.040 new president. I respect him. He's a very strong guy, 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:57.600 and that's what you need in Syria. You can't put 0:21:58.920 --> 0:22:02.480 a choir boy, can't put you know, somebody that's a 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:06.879 perfect person. Everything's nice, no problems in life. You have 0:22:06.960 --> 0:22:10.520 the opposite there. He's a strong guy. We get along 0:22:10.520 --> 0:22:14.480 with him great. I can't ask for anymore. He's been 0:22:14.520 --> 0:22:17.560 with us all the way. We had that misap with Isis, 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:19.159 and he was with us all the way. He was 0:22:19.160 --> 0:22:23.080 fighting us, you know, he was fighting them. So I 0:22:23.119 --> 0:22:26.160 hope Israel. I'm sure that Israel and him will get along. 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:29.040 I will try and make it so that they do 0:22:29.119 --> 0:22:29.679 get along. 0:22:30.240 --> 0:22:31.840 I think they will. Maybe Do you have anything to 0:22:31.880 --> 0:22:32.439 say about that. 0:22:32.960 --> 0:22:39.359 Yeah, well, our interest is to have a peaceful border 0:22:39.359 --> 0:22:43.840 with Sarah. Our interest is to have and we openly said, 0:22:44.359 --> 0:22:47.720 we want to make sure that the border area right 0:22:47.760 --> 0:22:52.000 next to our border is safe. We don't have terrorists, 0:22:52.000 --> 0:22:54.960 we don't have attacks, and we also want to secure 0:22:55.640 --> 0:22:58.520 our Jews friends. And by the way, I think not 0:22:58.560 --> 0:23:01.400 only the Jews, but other mind artists, especially the Christians, 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:05.040 should be protected as well in Syria and throughout the 0:23:05.040 --> 0:23:08.680 Middle East and in Nigeria. When your efforts we back 0:23:08.720 --> 0:23:12.639 completely because Christian communities are beleaguered around the world and 0:23:12.840 --> 0:23:15.320 especially in the Middle East, but in parts of Africa too, 0:23:16.080 --> 0:23:18.240 and we stand for the same thing. 0:23:18.560 --> 0:23:21.959 And don't forget it was President Erdawan that helped very 0:23:22.040 --> 0:23:26.760 much get rid of a very bad ruler of Syria. 0:23:27.040 --> 0:23:28.440 That was President Dawe. 0:23:29.720 --> 0:23:31.560 And he never wanted the credit for it, but he 0:23:31.920 --> 0:23:33.119 really gets a lot of credit. 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:34.960 Bbe agrees with that. I agree with. 0:23:35.000 --> 0:23:38.479 I mean, I know it, and President one should get 0:23:38.520 --> 0:23:40.280 a lot of good credit for what he did. He 0:23:40.400 --> 0:23:44.119 get rid of some very bad people, and you know 0:23:44.119 --> 0:23:46.200 they've been wanting to do that for a thousand years 0:23:46.200 --> 0:23:48.679 with different names, but for a thousand years in Syria, 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:52.239 President Erdwan did it, and we give him a lot 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:52.639 of credit. 0:23:52.640 --> 0:23:53.720 I give him a lot of credit. 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:56.800 But I think it's going to work out well between 0:23:56.840 --> 0:23:58.840 Syria and Israel. 0:24:01.160 --> 0:24:06.560 About about Lebanon, the Lebanese government, so what we saw 0:24:07.280 --> 0:24:10.680 is not meeting the terms of the ceasefire agreement, has 0:24:10.720 --> 0:24:12.160 failed to disarmed. 0:24:12.440 --> 0:24:15.480 Chrisbala, Actually, in your view, should. 0:24:15.160 --> 0:24:17.680 Israel strike the tourist organization again. 0:24:17.520 --> 0:24:20.840 Well, we're gonna see about that. We'll see about it. Uh. 0:24:21.000 --> 0:24:24.119 The Lebanese government is a little bit of a disadvantage 0:24:24.520 --> 0:24:28.359 if you think of it, with Hesbela, but Hesbela has 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:32.480 been behaving badly, so we'll see what happens. 0:24:33.680 --> 0:24:36.919 Also, we do another operation of Israel in Iran. You 0:24:36.960 --> 0:24:39.399 said before the meeting with Nataniel that you are in 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:42.960 support of Israel if the ballistic missile project will take on, 0:24:43.080 --> 0:24:45.800 and also the nuclear weapon. But after the meeting, after 0:24:45.800 --> 0:24:48.400 what you know from the intelligence? How close a week 0:24:48.560 --> 0:24:49.880 to another with the one? 0:24:50.040 --> 0:24:53.000 Well, I don't want to say that, but a run 0:24:53.160 --> 0:24:59.200 maybe behaving badly. It hasn't been confirmed, but if it's confirmed, Look, 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:04.080 they know the consequences. You know, consequences will be very powerful, 0:25:05.200 --> 0:25:09.280