On today's show, we discuss the latest in the latest deal between Israel and the Palestinians, including the release of all of the remaining hostages and the return of some of our own. We also discuss the impact of the deal and what it means for the future of the peace process in the Middle East. Finally, we wrap up the show with a special guest appearance from former federal prosecutor Sam Adams, who joins us on the show to talk about his work at the Eastern District of Virginia.
00:15:19.700We're supposed to be guarding what's most essential to this country.
00:15:22.760Those are the God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
00:15:28.740Remember, we've been probably the most critical of Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood, and I would argue today with Antifa being designated as a terrorist organization, Muslim Brotherhood,
00:15:38.700which I think the only thing I fought harder for in relation to the Middle East was moving the capital to Jerusalem in addition to trying to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
00:15:50.920The reality is the Arab nations have come together.
00:15:55.040The Muslim nations have come together.
00:15:59.440They see the one thing that the hardest core supporters of Israel always fought against was a two-state solution.
00:16:05.200You're going to get a two-state solution out of this.
00:16:08.680So as terrible as Netanyahu has run this war, right, the reality is you're going to get a two-state solution.
00:16:14.540You're going to have limited involvement, I think, with Israel in Judea-Samaria, Samara, and you're not going to – and the Iranians are going to join the Abraham Accords or somehow join this alliance because you've got Turkey and Qatar.
00:16:32.700Turkey's going to head the security unit, it looks like, in Gaza.
00:16:37.120So how can you say on one hand – look, I've been admirably opposed to Netanyahu and the Greater Israel Project, and we said on this show from day one when October 7th happened, which has never been explained to anybody how that happened.
00:17:14.920Right now, Hamas is saying the war is over.
00:17:17.100It looks like they're going to exchange the living hostages on Monday and Tuesday.
00:17:20.100President Trump said he's going to go to Egypt, probably go to Israel, address the Knesset.
00:17:24.500But how do you ally the fears of people that are saying, hey, this is actually going to codify the encirclement of Israel by kind of hostile Arab and Muslim nations, sir?
00:17:39.400Well, thank God you have President Trump.
00:17:42.060There's 20 points to this thing, and it's going to unfold logically.
00:17:45.980Those points take place in sequential order for a reason.
00:17:50.100Israel is going to be safe, or thank God Trump's there, right?
00:17:55.900He wants peace, but he is Romans 13 in the Bible.
00:32:58.780With everything going on, I had to include this tonight, and I thank our colleague over in our International Bureau in Rome for joining us, staying up late and joining us.
00:33:11.540Ben, with everything we've got going on, you know, with trying to get peace in the Middle East, with this revolt going on about illegal aliens, whether it's the government.
00:33:21.280Schumer shutdown in Portland, Chicago, all of it.
00:33:25.480Because in the middle of this, I think throwing gasoline on the fire is a guy I warned everybody about from the very beginning.
00:33:35.040I told people this is exactly one of the guys, and this is not a, the audience doesn't have to listen to another Bannon, I told you so.
00:33:40.840But I'm going to go there with Ben, and I told you so.
00:33:44.760This guy is bad as they get, maybe even worse, because he tries to put it on.
00:33:56.200But he's more dangerous than Francis, and this is exactly why.
00:34:01.200Walk through what the Pope has done in the last 24, 48 hours to really throw gasoline on this building insurgency that we have in the United States of America, sir.
00:34:13.620Yeah, well, the Pope has, inverted commas, Pope Leo, the 14th, inverted commas, has published this week his first formal teaching document.
00:34:56.480He's, in our religion, in the Roman Catholic religion, he's the vicar of Christ on earth in a direct chain of apostolic succession.
00:35:06.860But I want to explain to our obviously broad evangelical and, you know, secular audience and Jewish audience exactly kind of what in the escalatory ladder of proclamations from papal bull all the way down to what this is, what it is, but still its importance because it comes from the man, right?
00:35:29.140This is not some opinion piece written in the Vatican newspaper.
00:35:34.860It's not some opinion piece or some interview in one of the Italian papers that cover the Pope.
00:35:46.300Well, let's start, let's start at the end and work back with, I mean, I think you'd probably find an op-ed in the New York Times or the Washington Post better written and better thought through than this.
00:36:00.500This is an, this is basically an anthology of Pope Francis's greatest platitude.
00:36:07.300It's not, I don't think, I don't believe a tremendously well-written document, point one on the, on the argument that he's the legitimate success at St. Peter and has the valid apostolic succession.
00:36:21.860I think that was, I think it was a case of Bannon trolling Harnwell live on air.
00:36:27.280We can have that debate at a later point in time if you want to do that, Steve.
00:36:31.080Let's say, let's put it like this, the guy is acknowledged, is recognised by the vast majority of Catholics as being the successor to St. Peter via apostolic succession.
00:36:45.980Whether he is or not, I think it's fair to say the jury is still out, as it has been out since 1958.
00:36:54.880But those are arguments that we can get into on another occasion.
00:36:59.400For our Protestant brothers and sisters, for our evangelical friends.
00:37:04.820The apostolic succession is basically this.
00:37:07.260The Catholic Church has a sacramental concept of priesthood.
00:37:12.520And specifically the Catholics believe that every time a guy is, a man is ordained, exclusively a man is ordained.
00:37:23.740And the bishop, or the bishops, place their hands on his head as the formula for ordination is pronounced.
00:37:36.040That hands putting on heads goes back, all the way back to Christ's ordination of the apostles in an unbroken chain.
00:37:45.880That is what the Catholic Church teaches.
00:37:48.780Because, of course, the bishop who's putting his hands on an ordinate head, he himself, when he was an ordinate, he will have had the hands of a bishop placed on his head when he was ordained as a priest.
00:38:02.560And then you have the consecration of bishops further along the line.
00:38:11.700That's what the Catholic Church teaches.
00:38:15.140And, of course, amongst the sacraments that there are, two of them require jurisdiction.
00:38:21.500That is to say, official legal sanction from a pope to be performed, matrimony and confession.
00:38:29.920You can be a valid priest and celebrate a valid mass, but you need to have the legal permission of a pope to conduct, or the bishop that's delegated, the diocesan bishop.
00:38:43.500That's why the pope is important in the Catholic Church, because it's not only the full authority of the teaching office, but also the full nature of what's called jurisdiction.
00:38:55.920And so in this, Reuters, hang on, Reuters and everybody's reporting in this, and it may not be papal bull or proclamation of the church, it's an official thing.
00:39:06.340He's ordering, ordering the U.S. bishops to basically get in the way of or stop President Trump's, not just sealing of the border, but the beginning of mass deportations on illegal alien invaders to rid our country of it.
00:39:25.780Is he not, sir, directly asking them to get directly involved?
00:39:34.680As you said in your introduction, he may not be as up in your face as Bergoglio, his predecessor, inverted commas, Pope Francis, but he is.
00:39:42.680As we said on the war room in the first 24 hours, he's more intelligent, and the sign of that greater intelligence, Steve, is that he's more subtle.
00:39:51.540And that is how he's confronting the democratic mandate of the president's administration.
00:39:57.300But hang on, but Harnwell, you've got Newsom in California, and you've got Pritzker, who I think is kind of a buffoon in Chicago and Illinois.
00:40:07.600What they're doing and what they're saying to stir this up ain't nothing to what this guy just did.
00:40:14.020I mean, the bishops, as much as we think they're feckless and hapless, particularly to the outside world, they think they're ordained with all this power.
00:40:23.840But even inside the church, and particularly, as you know, in the church today, the one-third of the church that is hugely progressive, they just got marching orders from the guy.
00:40:35.380They would actually say it's Bannon and Harnwell and that radical trad Catholic that the FBI was looking at under Chris Wray that we said at the top of the show an hour ago.
00:40:46.140Chris Wray is now under criminal investigation, okay, and criminal investigations leaked out of DOJ about that, that Harnwell and Bannon and Liz York and all these people are radicals.
00:40:58.060They're really not in good standing with the church because they may believe the religious teachings of the Catholic church, but they're certainly out of sync with the social justice message of the lineage that we've had in the last 10 or so years.
00:41:13.460And this is going to be, this has right now, as much as in the morning show, I was all over Soborov and MSNBC, who I said should be investigated and shut down, stirring things up last night in Chicago in the streets by doing wall-to-wall coverage of the insurrection.
00:41:30.440The same people that stirred it up on October 7th the other night in New York City when it was basically a Hamas festival, right?
00:41:38.120It was a Hamas festival, and that's coming on November 4th to New York City.
00:41:44.100The Pope's thrown in with the neo-Marxists and the radicals and the jihadists that are trying to destroy, as President Trump so eloquently said, told the military, the enemy within.
00:41:55.100He has come out on the side of the enemy within the United States of America.
00:41:59.360Am I incorrect on any of that, Ben Harnwell?
00:42:02.440What is taking place is that Leo, as well as like Francis before him, is turning the institution of the Catholic Church, especially in America, as effectively an enemy of the state.
00:42:19.900A subversive institution confronting the democratic and legal will of the state.
00:42:29.120I draw back from calling it an insurrection, but effectively that is what the instruction to the U.S. bishops is.
00:42:42.000It's to tell them to frustrate the democratic mandate of this administration in kicking out criminal invaders from the United States.
00:42:50.060You don't think, hang on, hang on, hang on, with President Trump's two-and-a-half-hour or three-hour Antifa designated terrorist meeting yesterday, what's happening in Portland, what's happening in Chicago, what happened in New York the other night, what Zohan has promised in New York City,
00:43:07.860you don't believe, right now, if you were talking to the president, you would tell the president, it's actually not an insurrection that's going on in the United States?
00:43:14.900Is that what I'm hearing from our Rome Bureau, sir?
00:43:19.300What I was saying is that the institution of the Catholic Church in America is being encouraged by the purported pope to resist and to oppose and obstruct the lawful work of the government.
00:43:38.340Yeah, and that is effectively insurrection.
00:43:41.500That's another word for it. Sedition, right? That is another word for it.