“At War For 78 Years!” - Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Marks Trump’s 10th War Victory
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Summary
Rob and Adam discuss the latest in peace talks between the United States and Israel, the latest on the Lebanon-Israel Ceasefire, and much more. Also, the Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq hit new all-time highs pre-market highs, and oil prices dropped below $83.00.
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Can you tell us the most important stat of today?
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What does that mean, the fact that it dropped down to 83?
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That there is confidence and stability in the oil markets.
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And remember, this adventure started at 65 to 67.
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That was the nominal price of oil back in late January.
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through Valentine's Day, before the fun started.
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And so now we're sitting on $83, $84, which means the oil market is calming down.
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The S&P is at $71.40 in pre-market, which is an all-time high.
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But aren't people trying to celebrate for the economy to do bad
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Isn't it supposed to be like a massive drop-off, Tom?
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So, you know, people like MSNBC and our good friend on MSNBC are really having a tough time this morning.
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You know, because once upon a time, they had that tingling feeling in their leg, and they were so happy about Obama.
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And now people like Chris Matthews are, he said it, not me.
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And now they're sitting there with their coffee, absolutely devastated, because the American economy looks like it's shooting.
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And it looks like gas might be more affordable for people,
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Chris Matthews hasn't been at MSNBC for a while.
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Me and Tom are in peace negotiations right now.
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Wherever he is, he no longer is getting a tingling feeling.
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because the 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon begins as Israel agrees to U.S. back deal.
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President Trump announced the agreement which went into force Thursday evening
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as Pakistani mediators work to extend U.S.-Iran ceasefire and arrange new talks.
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If you want to go a little bit lower, Rob, Beirut, a tentative 10-day was set up.
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The ceasefire was announced on Thursday by the president and confirmed by Bibi in a later video.
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Netanyahu said that Israel had an opportunity to forge a historic peace agreement with Lebanon
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but that Israeli forces would remain inside Lebanese territory in a reinforced security buffer zone.
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The agreement was not negotiated by Hezbollah, the group that Israel had been targeting,
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and which, Rob, if you can pull it up a little bit, and which gave ambiguous statements
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about whether they would recognize that a ceasefire must include a comprehensive halt to attacks
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across all Lebanese area with no freedom of movement for Israeli forces
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and a return to the situation prior to March 2nd.
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And when the current round of conflict began between Israel and Hezbollah began, the group
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So while you're hearing this, the Israeli military said there were at least 40 strikes
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from Lebanon after Trump announced the pause and Lebanese state media reported heavy air
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This could be huge because, listen, most people, most countries want two things, peace and
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Then you need to ask yourself, do these U.S.-designated terrorist groups want this?
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When they're having their cereal and coffee, does Al-Qaeda think that?
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So right now, what's different this time around is one thing.
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there's a weak and almost on the brink of disaster iran now we talked about this last podcast that i
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think lebanon is iran first because iran the irgc is basically controlling lebanon now this peace
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talk right now between netanyahu and the israeli government he's speaking for the first time
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high-level peace talks. They've been at war for 78 years, since the infancy of the country of
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Israel, since 1948. So now you have the president, Joseph Aoun. Hope I got his name right. They're
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having the first high-level talks in decades, basically. And you know who's not there anywhere
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near the talks right now? Hezbollah. So they're basically saying, we want peace. Me and you want
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peace you're lebanon i'm israel let's make peace this guy's messing everything up so what do we
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want to do let's should we handle this or do we go do we bring this guy in because this guy doesn't
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want peace and the people of lebanon they're just very similar to what's going on in iran
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if i can just paint a very clear picture the people of lebanon are very similar to the people
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of iran 80 of lebanon wants peace prosperity and they want hezbollah out of there just like 80
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percent of iran which we've talked about wants the ayatollah and the irgc out there got it the
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question is this can they actually negotiate peace or is hezbollah going to get in the way
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is there going to be deeper contact thoughts so right now um it's been very interesting how
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israel is kind of doing its own thing when they said the peace fire the first thing is israel
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said and people that were there said now that doesn't include us in lebanon what's going on
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with us in lebanon is separate but now a a ceasefire in lebanon you know i i pray that there's
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a ceasefire there because the lebanese christians and the people that are in the
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the rural areas there they're they're it's it's horrible it's it it's like in the morning the
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rockets go south and then the evening the rockets go north and they're stuck in the middle of it
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and i know that there's you know you know the the bad people that are there hezbollah and everything
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well America I don't know how the rest of the world operates
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because remember we were sold war on terror war on terror war on terror it's an unrealistic win
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you could never win when you're going against terrorists and any nation could always say
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there's terrorists there there's terrorists there there's terrorists there and it's like a blank
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check to keep going and doing whatever you're doing so my question is how do you win because
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i don't believe if a terrorist nation or a terrorist groups you think they're going to
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negotiate they're going to bomb right back and then they're going to bomb right back so i'm
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curious what is a win what is an actual okay hezbollah's gone uh and they're done and but you
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know you know i'm saying like i'm i'm trying to figure out because i can't i've run so many
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scenarios in my head where i'm like okay if me and pat say adam you and tom you there's terrorists
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over there we could keep coming and keep coming and keep bombing and until when because all you
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have to do is say that there's terrorists i'm not saying that there's not terrorists in lebanon i'm
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I'm not saying there's not terrorists in Iran, of course.
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Because, again, we're talking about Hezbollah.
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Whenever you have people with opposing beliefs of you that look at the world in a different way,
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that look at business in a different way, you're never going to have permanent peace.
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You're just looking at finding ways to make progress.
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Here's what Trump had to say yesterday when he was being asked about this.
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I think it's going to be actually it's very exciting because it's 48 years.
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We're going to be meeting with Bibi Netanyahu, as you know, and the president of Lebanon.
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And I had a great talk with both of them today.
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They're going to be having a ceasefire, and that'll include Hezbollah.
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But then this also leads to, you know, yesterday when he's having a conversation,
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you know, they asked him about, did you hear about the four people?
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Iran has taken out four people, and one of them is a woman.
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I'm going to execute four more protesters, reportedly, including the first women protesters.
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Well, probably a person asked the question about the Pope prior to that, so that's why he's pointing at that reporter.
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Hey, they're executing four more and one girl they're killing.
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And when he's saying Pope, he's saying because the Pope is against war.