Valuetainment - “At War For 78 Years!” - Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Marks Trump’s 10th War Victory

00:00:00.000 You ready for the most important data, Tom?

00:00:01.860 Can you tell us the most important stat of today?

00:00:04.900 That was $119 just a few days ago, Beryl.

00:00:07.700 How much are oil prices right now?

00:00:09.740 The market's going to open in six minutes.

00:00:12.060 Crude oil is at 83.

00:00:14.220 What does that mean, the fact that it dropped down to 83?

00:00:17.460 That there is confidence and stability in the oil markets.

00:00:20.800 And remember, this adventure started at 65 to 67.

00:00:25.280 That was the nominal price of oil back in late January.

00:00:30.000 through Valentine's Day, before the fun started.

00:00:32.880 And so now we're sitting on $83, $84, which means the oil market is calming down.

00:00:39.360 This is a very good thing.

00:00:41.000 And the overall markets are up.

00:00:42.480 The S&P is at $71.40 in pre-market, which is an all-time high.

00:00:47.860 All-time highs.

00:00:49.180 S&P.

00:00:50.160 S&P 500.

00:00:51.820 But aren't people trying to celebrate for the economy to do bad

00:00:55.140 and for it to be a bad look for the president?

00:00:58.720 Isn't it supposed to be like a massive drop-off, Tom?

00:01:01.800 So, you know, people like MSNBC and our good friend on MSNBC are really having a tough time this morning.

00:01:11.140 Yeah.

00:01:11.760 You know, because once upon a time, they had that tingling feeling in their leg, and they were so happy about Obama.

00:01:17.000 And now people like Chris Matthews are, he said it, not me.

00:01:20.540 He said it.

00:01:21.280 And now they're sitting there with their coffee, absolutely devastated, because the American economy looks like it's shooting.

00:01:26.960 By the way, do you know?

00:01:27.760 And it looks like gas might be more affordable for people,

00:01:30.700 so there's no one to yell at this summer.

00:01:32.820 What will they do?

00:01:34.160 Chris Matthews hasn't been at MSNBC for a while.

00:01:36.300 It's the other one you're looking at.

00:01:37.820 Very long time.

00:01:38.840 That tells you how much I'm at MSNBC.

00:01:40.860 Me and Tom are in peace negotiations right now.

00:01:43.280 I didn't want to correct you, Tom.

00:01:44.140 So let's go into that topic.

00:01:45.120 But you are right.

00:01:46.700 Wherever he is, he no longer is getting a tingling feeling.

00:01:50.160 So let's go into this topic that we have.

00:01:52.700 So, Rob, Lebanon-Israel ceasefire.

00:01:56.020 What is the latest with this?

00:01:57.260 because the 10-day ceasefire in Lebanon begins as Israel agrees to U.S. back deal.

00:02:01.980 President Trump announced the agreement which went into force Thursday evening

00:02:05.680 as Pakistani mediators work to extend U.S.-Iran ceasefire and arrange new talks.

00:02:10.360 If you want to go a little bit lower, Rob, Beirut, a tentative 10-day was set up.

00:02:14.700 The ceasefire was announced on Thursday by the president and confirmed by Bibi in a later video.

00:02:20.200 Netanyahu said that Israel had an opportunity to forge a historic peace agreement with Lebanon

00:02:23.840 but that Israeli forces would remain inside Lebanese territory in a reinforced security buffer zone.

00:02:29.660 The agreement was not negotiated by Hezbollah, the group that Israel had been targeting,

00:02:34.300 and which, Rob, if you can pull it up a little bit, and which gave ambiguous statements

00:02:37.580 about whether they would recognize that a ceasefire must include a comprehensive halt to attacks

00:02:42.260 across all Lebanese area with no freedom of movement for Israeli forces

00:02:47.180 and a return to the situation prior to March 2nd.

00:02:50.340 And when the current round of conflict began between Israel and Hezbollah began, the group

00:02:54.380 said in a statement.

00:02:55.380 So while you're hearing this, the Israeli military said there were at least 40 strikes

00:02:59.400 from Lebanon after Trump announced the pause and Lebanese state media reported heavy air

00:03:03.600 strikes in regional areas.

00:03:05.000 So both of them were going back and forth.

00:03:07.260 How big of a deal is this, Adam?

00:03:09.920 This could be huge because, listen, most people, most countries want two things, peace and

00:03:16.220 prosperity.

00:03:17.940 I think the U.S. wants that. 0.99

00:03:19.700 I think Israel wants that.

00:03:20.960 I think the UAE wants this.

00:03:22.300 I think Saudi wants this.

00:03:24.020 I think Lebanon wants this.

00:03:25.900 Then you need to ask yourself, do these U.S.-designated terrorist groups want this?

00:03:31.220 Do you think ISIS wants peace and prosperity?

00:03:34.000 Does ISIS wake up every day?

00:03:35.980 Let's be peaceful, guys.

00:03:37.140 When they're having their cereal and coffee, does Al-Qaeda think that?

00:03:41.280 Does Hezbollah think that?

00:03:43.120 Does Hamas think that?

00:03:44.040 That's not the way they think.

00:03:45.640 So right now, what's different this time around is one thing.

00:03:48.580 there's a weak and almost on the brink of disaster iran now we talked about this last podcast that i

00:03:56.460 think lebanon is iran first because iran the irgc is basically controlling lebanon now this peace

00:04:04.140 talk right now between netanyahu and the israeli government he's speaking for the first time

00:04:10.300 high-level peace talks. They've been at war for 78 years, since the infancy of the country of

00:04:18.800 Israel, since 1948. So now you have the president, Joseph Aoun. Hope I got his name right. They're

00:04:24.440 having the first high-level talks in decades, basically. And you know who's not there anywhere

00:04:30.340 near the talks right now? Hezbollah. So they're basically saying, we want peace. Me and you want

00:04:36.300 peace you're lebanon i'm israel let's make peace this guy's messing everything up so what do we

00:04:42.400 want to do let's should we handle this or do we go do we bring this guy in because this guy doesn't

00:04:47.060 want peace and the people of lebanon they're just very similar to what's going on in iran

00:04:52.260 if i can just paint a very clear picture the people of lebanon are very similar to the people

00:04:57.180 of iran 80 of lebanon wants peace prosperity and they want hezbollah out of there just like 80

00:05:05.140 percent of iran which we've talked about wants the ayatollah and the irgc out there got it the

00:05:09.680 question is this can they actually negotiate peace or is hezbollah going to get in the way

00:05:14.400 is there going to be deeper contact thoughts so right now um it's been very interesting how

00:05:21.860 israel is kind of doing its own thing when they said the peace fire the first thing is israel

00:05:26.700 said and people that were there said now that doesn't include us in lebanon what's going on

00:05:30.460 with us in lebanon is separate but now a a ceasefire in lebanon you know i i pray that there's

00:05:37.080 a ceasefire there because the lebanese christians and the people that are in the

00:05:41.680 the rural areas there they're they're it's it's horrible it's it it's like in the morning the

00:05:47.880 rockets go south and then the evening the rockets go north and they're stuck in the middle of it 0.95

00:05:52.460 and i know that there's you know you know the the bad people that are there hezbollah and everything

00:06:00.160 but I want to see the peace fire

00:06:02.700 and I want to see it wrapped up

00:06:04.100 and I'm really sad

00:06:07.720 Rob what clips do we have on this Rob

00:06:09.380 do we have any clips on this

00:06:10.400 I do have Netanyahu but it's not in English

00:06:13.360 I'm translating it now

00:06:14.420 I think I lowered my mic

00:06:16.860 it's in here bro you need some help

00:06:17.960 I firstly think Pat

00:06:20.600 well America I don't know how the rest of the world operates

00:06:22.780 we don't negotiate with terrorists

00:06:24.720 correct

00:06:25.500 I think a cease fire is unrealistic

00:06:29.500 because remember we were sold war on terror war on terror war on terror it's an unrealistic win

00:06:35.700 you could never win when you're going against terrorists and any nation could always say

00:06:40.040 there's terrorists there there's terrorists there there's terrorists there and it's like a blank

00:06:43.980 check to keep going and doing whatever you're doing so my question is how do you win because

00:06:48.300 i don't believe if a terrorist nation or a terrorist groups you think they're going to

00:06:52.820 negotiate they're going to bomb right back and then they're going to bomb right back so i'm

00:06:56.660 curious what is a win what is an actual okay hezbollah's gone uh and they're done and but you

00:07:03.440 know you know i'm saying like i'm i'm trying to figure out because i can't i've run so many

00:07:07.700 scenarios in my head where i'm like okay if me and pat say adam you and tom you there's terrorists

00:07:14.080 over there we could keep coming and keep coming and keep bombing and until when because all you

00:07:20.140 have to do is say that there's terrorists i'm not saying that there's not terrorists in lebanon i'm 0.80

00:07:23.700 I'm not saying there's not terrorists in Iran, of course. 0.69

00:07:25.880 But what I'm saying is, what's victory? 0.94

00:07:27.720 How do you achieve a win? 0.99

00:07:29.320 Because, again, we're talking about Hezbollah. 1.00

00:07:30.880 Permanent victory? 1.00

00:07:31.980 Permanent victory.

00:07:32.660 No, there's no such thing.

00:07:33.480 That's what I'm saying.

00:07:34.400 But that's life, though.

00:07:36.300 I think that's how life works.

00:07:38.740 I think that's how business works.

00:07:41.840 Whenever you have people with opposing beliefs of you that look at the world in a different way,

00:07:48.380 that look at business in a different way, you're never going to have permanent peace.

00:07:51.100 You're just looking at finding ways to make progress.

00:07:54.380 This could be a sign of progress.

00:07:55.700 Here's what Trump had to say yesterday when he was being asked about this.

00:07:59.040 Go ahead, Rob.

00:08:01.900 I think they will.

00:08:03.960 I think it's going to be actually it's very exciting because it's 48 years.

00:08:08.740 We're going to be meeting with Bibi Netanyahu, as you know, and the president of Lebanon.

00:08:15.640 And I had a great talk with both of them today. 0.99

00:08:17.960 They're going to be having a ceasefire, and that'll include Hezbollah. 1.00

00:08:23.140 And I think it could be number 10 for me. 0.99

00:08:27.180 It could be number 10.

00:08:28.840 Talking about making peace agreements.

00:08:30.800 Right, right.

00:08:31.580 But then this also leads to, you know, yesterday when he's having a conversation,

00:08:35.400 you know, they asked him about, did you hear about the four people?

00:08:39.680 Is this the one, Rob?

00:08:40.560 Yes, sir. 0.85

00:08:41.640 Iran has taken out four people, and one of them is a woman.

00:08:45.740 And look at his response. 1.00

00:08:46.760 Go for it. 1.00

00:08:47.360 I'm going to execute four more protesters, reportedly, including the first women protesters. 1.00

00:08:53.240 Execute four protesters. 1.00

00:08:54.640 Well, tell that to the Pope. 0.98

00:08:56.320 What are you saying?

00:08:57.700 Tell that to the Pope.

00:08:59.940 Who's he talking to there, Dino?

00:09:12.240 Well, probably a person asked the question about the Pope prior to that, so that's why he's pointing at that reporter.

00:09:17.180 But he says, tell that to the Pope.

00:09:18.340 So look at Iran. 0.62

00:09:19.100 Hey, they're executing four more and one girl they're killing. 0.95

00:09:22.920 Tell that to the Pope.

00:09:23.680 And when he's saying Pope, he's saying because the Pope is against war.

00:09:27.260 That's what he's saying, right?

00:09:28.200 Because of.

Valuetainment - April 17, 2026

“At War For 78 Years!” - Israel-Lebanon Ceasefire Marks Trump’s 10th War Victory

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